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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | | Needles of bone or ivory are now fine enough to take a thread as thin as horse hair | |
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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | | The walls of Altamira, an extensive cave in Spain, are decorated with paintings and engraved images of horses, deer and above all bison | |
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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | | Archaeological evidence reveals that the central plains of north America by now have a widespread human population | |
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| 15,000 to 10,000 years ago |
| | | Hunter-gatherers gradually extend their territory far into South America | |
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| c. 14,000 to 10,000 years ago |
| | | During the Mesolithic period (Middle Stone Age) humans continue to improve their tool-making skills but are still nomads and hunter-gatherers | |
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| c. 12,000 years ago |
| | | A canine jaw, discovered in a cave in Mesopotamia, is the earliest evidence of the domestication of dogs | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | The ending of the most recent ice age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile, both prompts and enables humans to develop permanent settlements | |
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| c. From 8000 BC |
| | | The Neolithic period (New Stone Age) includes any settled human community still using exclusively stone tools | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Human communities in the Middle East cultivate crops and domesticate animals, in the Neolithic Revolution | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Wheat is grown in the Middle East - the first cereal cultivated by man | |
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