One of the time periods that I am exploring is the world of 10,000 years ago. These posts are labelled with “10ka” (10 thousand annals/years). The posts generally cover sites from 12,500 years ago until 7,500 years ago. That’s a pretty long time span, the same amount of time that’s in between the building of the Pyramids in Egypt up until the present day.
See all related 10ka posts here.
By this time, modern humanity had spread around the globe and had displaced all other archaic humans or absorbed them. Humanity then endured the harshest years of the Ice Age, but then climate warmed, and the sea levels started rising. Advances in stone technology and hunting techniques had driven much of the large game that humans hunted, such as wooly mammoths, to extinction. With the main source of food gone, human societies around the world had to change their way of life in order to survive. Some societies switched to hunting smaller game, and their stone tools got smaller, and they entered the Mesolithic Age (Middle Stone Age). Others started domesticating crops and animals and they entered the Neolithic Age (New Stone Age). Some societies switched to fishing along rivers or along the sea coasts.
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