23,000 BP to 20,000 BP

 

23,000 BP: Someone carved a figure of a flying bird in mammoth ivory in the Malta settlement in Siberia.

~ to 19,000 BP: Solutrian culture may have reached Ireland as it did France and England, and spain.

 

 

22,000 BC to 20,000 BC: Ireland: Evidence, from this Midland Ice Age period, of wolves living in Ireland throughout the period.

~ North Africa: End of the second Mousterian Pluvial.

~ to 4,000 BC: Rapidly rising sea levels lead to human migrations inland.

~ France and Spain: wonderful early cave paintings in what are now these countries.

~ West Asia, including the Middle East: Aurignacian culture.

~ Last Glacial Maximum.

~ France: Venus of Brassempouy, Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes was made. It is now at Musee des Antiquites Nationales, St-Germain-en-Laye, Landes was made.

~ Europe: Neanderthals believed to have become extinct.

~ to 21,000 BP, Austria: Venus of Willendorf  was made during this time. It is now at Naturhristoriches Museum, Vienna 

21,000 BP to 19,000 BP: Solutrean culture May have reached Ireland as it certainly did France, Spain, and England. Their artifacts dated to around 21.000 before disappearing around 17,000 BP.

                                                       

20,000 BP: Aterian tools have been dated in Egypt from about 150,000 and continued to flourish until 130,000 BP, but similar finds have been found dating to only 20,000, BP.

~ North Africa: The end of the second Mousterian Pluvial.                                  ~ Sardinia: Human bones dating to about this time were found in the Corbeddu cave of Oliena. 

                                                                                        Richard C. Sheehan