History of the Holocene Era (H.E.) is my interest. This period covers the time from the end of the most recent global Ice Age to the present (2012 A.D.). Holocene dating differs from the BC/AD system in that 10,001 B.C. is Year Zero H.E., and that 2012 A.D. is 12,012 H.E. Thus, my data covers 12,012 years of human history!
For Instance, a chronology the first 3000 years of the Holocene Era look something like:
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10001 B.C. 0000 H.E. End of the Paleolithic Period and Pliestocene Epoch; Beginning of the Holocene Era ("Year Zero H.E."). Pre-Historical period ends; Modern human history begins.
10000 B.C. 0001 H.E. (Approximate Year) Beginning of the First Agricultural Revolution. People begin to leave their nomadic lifestyles, settle down into permanent locations, and begin to rely on agriculture for sustenance in many regions. The domestication of animals begins. All continents (except Antarctica) inhabited.
9600 B.C. 0401 H.E. (Approximate Year) End of the Younger Dryas stadial. Sudden climatic warming causes melting of glaciers and snow packs, the runoff inundating low-lying coastal and litoral areas.
9560 B.C. 0441 H.E. The alleged year of the destruction of mythical Atlantis, according to Plato.
9000 B.C. 1001 H.E. (Approximate Year) Earliest evidence of a walled city, later called 'Jericho'.
8000 B.C. 2001 H.E. (Approximate Year) Approximate start of the 2.8 ka event, an early 1st millennium BC drought in the Eastern Mediterranean, which possibly triggering the collapse of Late Bronze Age cultures.
8000 B.C. 2001 H.E. (Approximate Year) Humans are practicing agriculture in preference to living as hunter/gatherers.
7500 B.C. 2501 H.E. (Approximate Year) Incipient Jomon period ends. Initial Jomon period begins. The term "jomon" means "cord-patterned" in Japanese. This refers to the pottery style characteristic of the Jomon culture, and which has markings made using sticks with cords wrapped around them. This period was rich in tools, jewelry, figures and pottery.
7000 B.C. 3001 H.E. (Approximate Year) First known manufacture of pottery.
7000 B.C. 3001 H.E. (Approximate Year) Approximate founding of the actual City of Jericho.
Please note that it took about 2000 years for humans to switch from being mostly Hunter-Gatherers to mostly Herder-Farmers, and another thousand years for them to start manufacturing pottery (at least on a large scale).
The data that I've compiled so far in this form is contained in a 300KB text file. The PDF is much larger.
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