The 9th millennium MPPNB period in the Levant represented a major transformation in prehistoric lifeways from small bands of mobile hunter-gatherers to large settled farming and herding villages in the Mediterranean zone.
The beginning of this process in different regions has been dated from 10,000 to 8,000 B.C.E. in the Fertile Crescent and perhaps 8000 B.C.E. in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia.
About 10,000 B.C.E., following the retreat of the great inland ice sheets, the earliest inhabitants migrated north into the territory which is now Norway
Prehistory in the present territory of Argentina began with the first human settlements on the southern tip of Patagonia around 13,000 years ago.
Archaeological studies have found that early human settlers arrived in West Africa around 12,000 B.C.E.
A bear bone found in Alice and Gwendoline Cave, County Clare, in 1903 may push back dates for the earliest human settlement of Ireland to 10,500 B.C.E. The bone shows clear signs of cut marks with stone tools, and has been radiocarbon dated to 12,500 years ago.
Bluefish Caves is an archaeological site in Yukon, Canada from which a specimen of allegedly human-worked mammoth bone has been radiocarbon dated to 24,000 years before present, earlier than the generally accepted age for habitation of the New World.
The San peoples, also known as the Bushmen, are members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer groups that are the first nations of Southern Africa, and whose territories span Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and South Africa.
It is currently unclear whether 21,000-year-old campfire remains found in the Valley of Mexico are the earliest human remains in Mexico.
The first indigenous peoples evolved physically and culturally to meet the rigorous demands of their remarkable environment.
