• 18,000 B.C. – Earth Land Mass Reconstruction
• 16,000 B.C. – The Ice Age Ends
• 16,000 B.C. – • 12,000 B.C. – Melt begins slow, in span of several decades a dramatic shift in global weather brought a rapid end to the cold, glacial Pleistocene Epoch.
"Something punctuated tens of thousands of years of equilibrium in the hydrosphere; glaciers began melting and ocean rose from over 300 feet below present levels, inundating vast coastal regions and exposing expansive new tracts of land. During the Ice Age the most hospitable habitations were concentrated in the tropics or around the margins of the warm oceans. Some human population groups may have been extincted. The end of the Ice Age set off immense natural cataclysmic events."
• 15,000 B.C. – • 8,300 B.C. – Mesolithic Age (Middle Stone Age)
• 14,600 B.C. – Jamon pottery in Japan
Pottery culture lasted until • 3 B.C., farmed rice, built settlements, elaborate rock carvings, lived harmoniously with nature, may have built numerous megalithic stone structures from south coast almost to Taiwan (now underwater), extensive navigation – twice to the Americas and made settlements there. Escaped total destruction during glacial meltdown beacuse Japan too far from glaciers.
The Jomon used the used Black Current to move north to North America [• 2,000 B.C.] and south to South America [• 9,000 B.C.]. Set up colonies in each area. Had accurate maps. These (or ones like them) came down to early European explorers [like Marco Polo] and navigators in the late 13th-16th Centuries The maps were used to naviagate Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans [portilios]. These maps reflected world landmass configurations from LGM, prior to meltdown. Apparently the Jomon melded into classical Japanese culture.
• 13,300 B.C. – • 10,700 B.C. – Lake Missoula Gives Way
The Columbia Basin was the scene of the greatest catastrophic floods ever documented in the geologic record. The Pleistocene Cordilleran ice sheet advanced south into Idaho, damming the Clark Fork River at the Montana border. A huge impoundment, called Lake Missoula, formed.
Glacial Lake Missoula stretched eastward for some 200 miles and contained more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined, and was 2,000 feet deep at the dam. The ice dam repeatedly gave way between 12,700 and 15,300 years ago, releasing waters that caused unprecedented flooding. Water raced down the Spokane Valley and spread out over the Columbia Basin. The maximum flow rate is estimated at 62.5 cubic kilometers per hour
When the highest of these ice dams failed, lake water burst through, shooting out at a rate 10 times the combined flow of all the rivers of the world. This towering mass of water and ice literally shook the ground as it thundered toward the Pacific Ocean, stripping away hundreds of feet of soil and cutting deep canyons – ‘coulees’ – into the underlying bedrock. With flood speeds approaching 65 miles per hour, the lake would have drained in as little as 48 hours. Over time the Cordilleran ice sheet continued moving south and blocked the Clark Fork River again and again, recreating Glacial Lake Missoula. Over approximately 2,500 years, the lake, ice dam and flooding sequence was repeated dozens of times, leaving a lasting mark on the landscape, greatly modifing it. Anastomosing channels were cut through the loess blanket and into basalt, leaving a jumbled topography of coulees, buttes, mesas, dry water falls, hanging valleys, and giant ripples. These geomorphic features are known collectively as the Channeled Scablands. The events are called the Great Spokane Floods. 09/13/2005
• 13,000 B.C. – 3rd possible date for 1st domestic dogs.
The origin of dogs, as judged by their mitochondrial DNA sequences, was first addressed five years ago by Dr. Robert K. Wayne and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Archaeologists found Wayne’s • 135,000 B.C. date implausible, because the earliest known dog bones date to only • 12,000 B.C. Dr. Peter Savolainen, a former colleague of Dr. Wayne now at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has now proposed a date that is more palatable to archaeologists. On the basis of DNA from several wolf populations and from the hairs collected off 654 dogs around the world, Dr. Savolainen calculates a date for domestication either • 38,000 B.C., if all dogs come from a single wolf, or around • 13,000 B.C., the date he prefers, if three animals drawn from the same population were the wolf Eves of the dog lineage.
The origin of dogs, as judged by their mitochondrial DNA sequences, was first addressed five years ago by Dr. Robert K. Wayne and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Archaeologists found Wayne’s • 135,000 B.C. date implausible, because the earliest known dog bones date to only • 12,000 B.C. Dr. Peter Savolainen, a former colleague of Dr. Wayne now at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has now proposed a date that is more palatable to archaeologists. On the basis of DNA from several wolf populations and from the hairs collected off 654 dogs around the world, Dr. Savolainen calculates a date for domestication either • 38,000 B.C., if all dogs come from a single wolf, or around • 13,000 B.C., the date he prefers, if three animals drawn from the same population were the wolf Eves of the dog lineage.
• 13,000 B.C. – • 12,000 B.C. Dog Burial begins 03/25/2006
Oldest lunar calendar ever created has been identified on the walls of the famous, prehistoric caves at Lascaux in France. Show the Moon going through its different phases. Were painted on to the walls of the chamber by Cro-Magnon man. They painted the sky, but not all of it. Just the parts that were specially important to them. Pattern of the Pleiades star cluster can also be seen hanging above the shoulder of a bull near the entrance to the main passageway. Inside the bull painting, there are also indications of spots that may be a representation of other stars found in that region of sky.
