Peoples & MigrationThe 10th millennium BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 10th millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 10th millennium BCE — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, all of it in 10,000 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
3
Nations
3
Earliest
10,000 BCE
Latest
10,000 BCE

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. by c. 10,000 BCESouth America

    Argentina

    Ancient peopling of the land

    Hunter-gatherer peoples occupy the Pampas, Patagonia and the Andean northwest over many millennia, leaving sites such as the painted hands of the Cueva de las Manos.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples and the Spanish Rio de la Plata

    Sources: Cueva de las Manos, Rio Pinturas · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Argentina · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. by c. 10,000 BCESouth America

    Brazil

    Ancient settlement of the land

    Hunter-gatherer peoples occupy what is now Brazil over many millennia, leaving rock art and ancient sites across the interior and the northeast.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples Before Contact

    Sources: Brazil · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Indigenous Peoples (Indigenas) · IBGE, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

  3. by c. 10,000 BCESouth America

    Chile

    Ancient peopling of the land

    Hunting and gathering peoples settle the long territory between the Andes and the Pacific over many millennia, the deep ancestors of the Mapuche and the Andean peoples of the north.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples and the World of Rapa Nui

    Sources: History of Chile · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mapuche · Encyclopaedia Britannica