13th millennium BC

• Comment: I don't see anything on this page that can be precisely dated to the millennium, which suggests to me that it is too far back to have a dedicated article. It currently redirects to timeline of prehistory, can this content be added there? This is interesting and valuable content but I'm not sure an entirely separate article on the millennium is the best format, do you have any thoughts on that? I do notice that your article on twelfth millennium was accepted, pinging User:Pppery in case they have thoughts. Rusalkii (talk) 06:33, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

  I accepted Draft:12th millennium BC as a procedural action because someone else (probably User:Asilvering) requested the redirect at 12th millennium BC be deleted to make way for an acceptance but never actually did the acceptance. I don't care what happens here, and don't intend to take any action on this draft unless the same situation happens again. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 13:00, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

  Honestly, I can see why you say this page does not have much information. My goal is to get the 11-20 millennium BC drafts to become actual pages and also try to get the 11th millennium BC to GA status. There are some that are estimates between millenniums, but some are during that specific millennium. For example, "In Levantine Natufian sites, dogs occur as early as this millennium." This means that it happened early as the 13th millennium BC. There is more than just that example, but I do have to agree that half of these are not the exact millennium date, so I will try to find more information for this draft in the future. From now on, I might submit drafts that have 15 notes instead of 10, but I'm not 100% sure that I will do that yet. I could put it in the timeline of prehistory, but I still have not fully researched this millennium yet and I know there is more to this millennium than what is on this page. If the 11th millennium BC can do it then this page can do it too. FerdinandLovesLegos(talk) 15:03, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

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The 13th millennium BC spanned the years 13,000 BC to 12,001 BC (c. 15 ka to c. 14 ka). This millennium is during the Upper Paleolithic period. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened during this millennium, and all dates associated with this millennium are estimates mostly based on geological analysis, anthropological analysis, and radiometric dating.

Geology

Animals

In France, the first incisor from a red deer is dated to the 13-12th millennium BC. In Levantine Natufian sites, dogs occur as early as this millennium.

Environmental changes

More than a century ago, it first became clear how much of the Magdalenian and Azilian underwent change in Western Europe. Since that time, these mutations succeeding one another between the 14th and 12th millennium BC, particularly during the Lateglacial warming, were often seen as a real revolution, frequently described through the filter of myths of catastrophes which then inspired and at times still influences prehistoric research.

Human culture

Humans

It is known that obsidian mining in Asia Minor was well underway by this millennium. Obsidian was a resource that hunter-gatherers may have traded during this millennium.

Technology and agriculture

The frequency of occurrence of fundamental tool groups such as end-scrapers, burins, truncated pieces, backed pieces, perforators, and combination tools in Moravian inventory is most closely matched and is dated to the late 13th - early 11th millennium BC. From the 17th to the 9th millennium BC, no surface pressure flaking technology is known to have existed in Europe. Computer simulations demonstrate that "proto" agriculture might have started far earlier than the Fertile Crescent's conventional "beginning" of agriculture, which is supposed to have occurred around the time of the 13th millennium BC's last glacial maximum (LGM) or the beginning of the 9th millennium BC. This "proto-agriculture" phases may have begun (perhaps separately) across Eurasia and Africa at various locations.

Other cultural developments

Jebel Sahaba, a prehistoric massacre site, dates to the 17-12th millennium BC. Round corrals have been discovered in archaeological settings dating back to this millennium. Boncuklu and Pınarbaşı sites stretch back to this millennium.

Bibliography

Books

• Desrosiers, Pierre M. (13 March 2012). The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making: from Origin to Modern Experimentation. Springer New York. p. 269. ISBN 9781461420033. Retrieved 25 May 2023.

Journals

• Binois, Annelise; Bridault, Anne; Pion, Gilbert; Ducrocq, Thierry (March 2014). "Dental Development Pathology in Wild artiodactyls: Two Prehistoric Case Studies from France". International Journal of Paleopathology. 4 (1): 53–58. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2013.11.002. PMID 29539502. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
• Valentin, Boris (2008). "Magdalenian and Azilian Lithic Productions in the Paris Basin: Disappearance of a Programmed Economy". The Arkotek Journal. 2 (1). Retrieved 2 March 2023.
• Hole, Frank; Wyllie, Cherra (2007). "The Oldest Depictions of Canines and a Possible Early Breed of Dog in Iran". Paléorient. 33 (1): 175. doi:10.3406/paleo.2007.5213. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
• Crevecoeur, Isabelle; Dias-Meirinho, Marie-Hélène; Zazzo, Antoine; Antoine, Daniel; Bon, François (2021). "New insights on interpersonal violence in the Late Pleistocene based on the Nile valley cemetery of Jebel Sahaba". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 9991. Bibcode:2021NatSR..11.9991C. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89386-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8159958. PMID 34045477.
• Hodder, Ian (2011). "The Role of Religion in the Neolithic of the Middle East and Anatolia with Particular Reference to Çatalhöyük" (PDF). Paléorient. 37 (1): 117. doi:10.3406/paleo.2011.5442. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
• Redding, Richard (2011). "The OK Corral: Standing Wall Island Mystery, Solved" (PDF). Aeragram: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. 12 (1): 4. ISSN 1944-0014. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
• Wiśniewski, Tomasz S; Mroczek, Przemysław; Rodzik, Jan; Zagórski, Piotr; Wilczyński, Jacek R; Fišáková, Miriam Nývltová (25 October 2012). "Erratum to "On the Periphery of the Magdalenian World: an open-air Site in Klementowice (Lublin Upland, Eastern Poland)" [Quat. Int. 272–273 (2012) 308–321]" (PDF). Quaternary International. 276–277 (1): 309. Bibcode:2012QuInt.276..300W. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.2106. Retrieved 25 May 2023.

Conference reports

• Dendrinos, Dimitrios S. (2015). From Newgrange to Stonehenge: Monuments to a Bull Cult and Origins of Innovation. Emeritus Professor, School Of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. In residence at Ormond Beach, Florida. Lawrence, Kansas, USA: University of Kansas. p. 26, 27. Retrieved 7 June 2023 – via Researchgate.