10,000 bce

Construction

Houses of sun-dried brick held together without mortar are built in Jericho (West Bank). See also 13,000 bce Construction; 8000 bce Construction.

Flax is harvested, possibly for food, by people living near lakes (Switzerland). Domestic flax was probably obtained several thousand years later from the wild flax that grows around the Mediterranean. See also 11,000 bce Food & agriculture; 7000 bce Food & agriculture.

The first known pottery is made by the preagricultural Jomon culture, the second wave of immigrants to settle in Japan. See also 24,000 bce Materials; 9200 bce Materials.