A world chronology · 9999–9000 BCE

The 10th millennium BCE

3 sourced events, 3 nations, in the order they happened.

Every record below is drawn from the chronicle of the nation it belongs to, with the same citations. Read down for the whole period, or jump to a stretch of it; within each year the world is grouped by continent.

South America
3 events · 3 nations

10,000 BCE3 records

South America

  1. ARG

    Argentina · Peoples & Migration · by c. 10,000 BCE

    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.

    Indigenous Peoples and the Spanish Rio de la Plata

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

  2. BRA

    Brazil · Peoples & Migration · by c. 10,000 BCE

    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.

    Indigenous Peoples Before Contact

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

  3. CHL

    Chile · Peoples & Migration · by c. 10,000 BCE

    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.

    Indigenous Peoples and the World of Rapa Nui

    Sources: History of Chile (Encyclopaedia Britannica) · Mapuche (Encyclopaedia Britannica)