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The Signposts Perspectives 10,000 BC-2,001 BC: All human settlements possess dogs; the secrets of fire-starting become widely known; farm animals are domesticated; market economies stir; sun dials, beer, the wheel and plow all appear Please help us keep this site online This page last updated on or about 1-22-01 (Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source)

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The Signposts Perspectives: 10,000 BC-2,001 BC Table of Contents

Everyone has dogs

• Approximately 10,000 BC: Virtually every human settlement in the world, both temporary and permanent, includes the presence of dogs

• Approximately 10,000 BC: This is an especially cold period worldwide

• Approximately 10,000 BC- 7,000 BC: It's very possible a privileged or lucky few worldwide now possess a reliable means of fire-starting

• Approximately 9,000 BC: Is there trans-Atlantic trade (possibly secretive and/or rare) involving cocaine and tobacco taking place between Africa and South America now? Is it only a coincidence that Plato will later speak of Atlantis existing prior to this time?

  Pigs and goats

• Approximately 9,000 BC - 8,000 BC: Pigs are being domesticated in Turkey, goats in Iraq

  Market economies and 3-D record-keeping

• Approximately 9,000 BC - 3,500 BC: "Exchange of goods" is begun...and a three dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory system and medium of exchange may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology

• Approximately 2,500,000 BC- 8,000 BC: The Annamite Mountains of southeastern Laos serve as a long term refuge to various plant and animal species struggling to survive climate changes of the period

• Approximately 8,000 BC- 4,000 BC: At various places in Turkey and Syria...Permanent villages are sprouting; property rights are being instituted; stone housing built (some rectangular and specialized in purpose); birds captured via netting; pigs and oxen domesticated; baking being done on a large scale; and embryonic kingdoms appearing

• Approximately 8,000 BC: Humanity officially enters the Stone Age; Total world population may be under 10 million; both Homo erectus (one form of early human) and Carcharodon megalodon (a giant prehistoric shark) may be going extinct; a long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing

  Firestarting skills are spreading fast; Brain surgery is being performed

• Approximately 8,000 BC-6,000 BC: Human beings in many locations are constructing villages and developing agriculture and various handcrafts; brain surgery is being performed; the secrets of fire-starting are emerging and spreading

• Approximately 7,911 BC-7,090 BC: During this period there are perhaps seven substantial volcanic eruptions in various spots around the globe

  Powerful earthquakes strike both Europe and North America

• Approximately 7,000 BC: Massive earthquakes possibly stronger than magnitude 8 pulverize many sites of early human civilization in Europe and North America

• Approximately 7,000 BC- 5,000 BC: Is the earliest form of the Great Sphinx of Egypt constructed sometime around now? If so, then by whom?

  Massive floods strike portions of both Europe and North America

• Approximately 6,200 BC-5,800 BC: The Northern Atlantic is cooled by 6 to 15 degrees due to collapsing ice dams in North America releasing enormous floods of icy water into the sea

• Approximately 6,000 BC - 1 AD: Sometime during this period the Earth, along with the rest of the solar system, enters a vast cloud of interstellar gas

• Approximately 6,000 BC: People in the vicinity of modern day Turkey are developing various techniques of metallurgy

• Approximately 6,000 BC: Long-time nomadic hunters of higher altitudes now move into the lowlands worldwide

• Approximately 7,600 BC- 5,900 BC: Roughly once every 25 years (one human generation) several thousand people are drowned by 15 foot tidal waves/storm surges racing across regions which are transitioning from dry land to sea bottom over the long term as ocean levels rise

  Noah's flood

• Approximately 5,650 BC: The true flood of Noah's Ark fame?

  Potter's wheels

• Approximately 5,500 BC: Mesopotamia boasts farming villages, and potters' wheels are now in use; Global sea levels abruptly rise several meters around this time, but will later subside back to levels similar to 2000 AD

• Approximately 5,000 BC: World population may be 50 million; The "Red Paint" people seem to have established a trans-atlantic domain which includes North American Labrador to New York state, and the northwestern coast of Europe

• Approximately 5,000 BC - 3,000 BC: Ostriches are apparently being used as caravan pack animals in Niger Africa

• Approximately 4,700 BC - 3,500 BC: The vast grasslands of North Africa suffer a substantial drying and heating of their average daily climate compared to before

• Approximately 4,500 BC: Northern Europeans are chewing birch-bark tar for its anti-microbial properties

• Approximately 4463 BC - 4279 BC: The Cerny peoples in europe are constructing enormous combination earth and wood boundary markers and tombs comparable to the Egyptian pyramids (which have not yet been built)

• Approximately 4,000 BC: Ancient Egyptian civilization is taking form

  2-D writing and crude sun dials (clocks)

• Approximately 3,500 BC -- 3,000 BC: Humanity enters the Bronze Age; 2-D writing begins; Crude sun-based clock devices are appearing; Honey is recognized today as an effective medicinal aid for certain ailments

  Beer

• Approximately 3,400 BC: Beer is being made in Egypt

• 3,300 BC: It's not uncommon for european travelers of this time to carry natural laxatives and antibiotics in medical kits

  Egypt

• Approximately 3,200 BC: A unified Egyptian state arises

  The wheel and plow

• Approximately 3,500 BC - 3,100 BC: The wheel and plow make their debut.

  World geography and coastlines finally stabilize once again, after thousands of years of fluctuation

• Approximately 4,000 BC -3,000 BC: Rising global sea levels finally stabilize at heights roughly equivalent to that of the late 1990s AD

  Schools are established; Also genetic engineering of crops

• Approximately 3,000 BC: Asians are utilizing an early form of abacus for calculations; some rich kids in western Asia are attending school; farmers in the Americas are performing genetic engineering to create better crops...

• Approximately 2,941 BC: A moon map is carved inside a tomb in Knowth, County Meath, Ireland

  Indoor Toilets and Showers

• 2,500 BC-1,700 BC: Indus Valley peoples in Asia are constructing sophisticated rectangular blocked cities with brick buildings and complex drainage systems.

• Approximately 2,520 BC- 2,494 BC: Is the Great Sphinx of Egypt created sometime around now, by the pharaoh Khafre? Or is it merely resculpted from an earlier form?

• Approximately 2,354 BC: Tree growth rings and rare historical accounts of this time point to worldwide ecological catastrophe

• Approximately 2,200 BC: A global climate shift takes place now

• Approximately 2,160 BC: The Old Kingdom of Egypt collapses

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