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9692                       HOLOCENE.0117 EPOCH BEGINS (11.7 K)                          (.0117-0 MA)

LOWER HOLOCENE.0117  STAGE (11.7 K)                              (.00117-0 MA)

MESOLITHIC AGE                                                  (11700-7000 BCE)

Wooden reaping knives set with flint blades used in Palestine

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Beginnings of animal husbandry and possibly agriculture

Domesticated sheep in north Tigris valley

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8500                        Neolithic industry in the Levant

8400                        Domesticated dog near Idaho

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