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The Signposts Perspectives 50,999 BC-10,001 BC: Textiles are a booming industry; many prehistoric civilizations possibly develop over millennia on dry lands which afterwards are drowned or washed away by rising sea levels and glacial flooding; growing populations and scarcer food force agriculture and fixed settlements onto people who were previously nomads; geography heavily shapes the development of human civilization Please help us keep this site online This page last updated on or about 3-31-04 (Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source)

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The Signposts Perspectives: 50,999 BC-10,001 BC Table of Contents

50,000+ BC: The arrival and behavior of humanity is driving many of Australia's indigenous large animal species to extinction

48,000 BC: Human population numbers begin to expand now beyond a long-time plateau

48,000 BC-38,000 BC; As the human population slowly grows, great breakthroughes are made in the development of hand tools

Approximately 42,000 BC: Human beings worldwide are by now hunting big game and assembling animal traps, as well as possibly becoming more selective in their roaming movements over the continents

Approximately 40,000 BC--18,000 BC: Humanity is getting good at creating and wielding stone-based weaponry, including spears and spear throwing devices, knives, and bows and arrows

Approximately 40,000 BC: Tiny bands of seafarers from greater Australia are slowly making their way across the Pacific in ever bolder treks between islands

Gift-economics

38,000+ BC: A gift-economy of sorts has emerged in southern Africa; only some 5% of the works of people from this time or before worldwide will survive to be re-discovered in the 18th-21st centuries

Approximately 38,000 BC: The central Sahara is beginning to see shifting weather patterns drastically curtail its annual rainfall

Approximately 37,000 BC - 35,000 BC: Childhood ends for one Australian

34,000 BC: A "huge explosion" rocks the Phlegraean Fields near where Naples Italy will be situated in 1999 AD

Pottery

Approximately 33,000 BC: Pottery is being made and used in China by now, if not before

31,000 BC - 12,000 BC: Substantial fluctuations in global climate afflict humanity and other lifeforms

Bows and Arrows

Approximately 30,000 BC: Modern humans are now living in central Europe; the simple bow and arrow weapons system has been in use for some time now (at least in certain regions)

29,000 BC: The widely acclaimed ancient artwork of the Chauvet caves in southern France is created.

Approximately 28,000 BC - 26,500 BC: The last pure blooded Neanderthals disappear from the Earth

28,000 BC -8,000 BC: The great north american ice sheets come and go-- repeatedly

Southeast Asia and the nearby Pacific region lead the world in fixed-site agriculture

Approximately 26,000 BC: Early agricultural efforts may be underway on Buka Island in the Solomons

Approximately 25,125 BC: Virtually all of the greater southeast asian peninsula has arisen from undersea

Human textile technologies are booming

Approximately 24,000 BC: It appears at least some peoples worldwide today possess the skills to produce twine/string, nets, and woven cloth

23,000 BC: The near unrecognizable shape of world continents today is due to reduced sea levels greatly expanding areas of dry land

23,000 BC - 13,500 BC: A group of relatively advanced city-states may have arisen upon the lowlands of the Southeast Asian peninsula, presently swollen by lowered sea levels to much larger than they will be circa 1999 AD

23,000 BC: Global sea levels of this time are at their lowest point for many millennia both past and future-- making this the most opportune time for many extraordinary migrations of human beings between continents

20,000 BC: Temperatures in the northern hemisphere are quite frigid; what appears to be counting notches are being made in bone by some peoples

Approximately 18,000 BC- 12,000 BC: Earth is bombarded five times by heavier than usual cosmic dust concentrations from space

Approximately 16,000 BC: Early farmers may be living and working in Indonesia and elsewhere in southeast Asia

Approximately 15,000 BC: Another "huge explosion" rocks the Phlegraean Fields near where Naples Italy will be situated in 1999 AD; Tiahuanacu in South America may be a thriving city and seaport at this time

Much of human prehistory now disappears beneath the waves of a rising sea

15,000 BC to 3,000 BC: The Great Global Erasure of Much Evidence of Ancient Human Civilizations: World sea levels rise at least 325 feet over 12,000 years, erasing virtually all traces of 30,000+ years worth of possible civilizations and technology use (as well as robbing humanity of the bulk of its collective knowledge and history) along many low lying continental and island coastlines, while glacial melt transforms many fertile inland valleys into new rivers and lakes; as if this wasn't enough, volcanic activity increases dramatically as well, ruining with fire and lava many works which may have escaped the flood waters

Approximately 13,000 BC: This is an especially cold period worldwide

Approximately 12,000 BC: Domesticated dogs may now be helping Siberian peoples to finally begin to overcome the packs of giant Hyenas obstructing the path to the Bering Land Bridge and North America

12,000 BC and later: Lead content in the biosphere offers clues to what remained of early human civilization after suffering some through 3000 years of the Great Global Erasure

Fixed-site agriculture becomes a necessity

11,000 BC: Grain is now being ground via stone/pestle, and pottery skills enhance the practicality of heating water for cooking and other uses; humanity is also forced out of their roaming ways and into the practice of committing themselves to a single location long term, along with active cultivation of grains and other food plants (as opposed to the more casual plant food collection performed before)

11,000 BC-1,900 AD: Largely geographic differences increase disease resistance and accelerate technological and organizational development among some human factions, while stunting them in others (eurasians win the luck of the draw in geographic terms, allowing them to dominate other continental groups for millennia)

Approximately 10,500 BC: A sudden 20+ degree F rise in temperatures worldwide is causing substantial climate change

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