14th millennium BC

Millennium between 14,000 BC and 13,001 BC

Millennia:	15th millennium BC 14th millennium BC 13th millennium BC
Centuries:	140th century BC 139th century BC 138th century BC 137th century BC 136th century BC 135th century BC 134th century BC 133rd century BC 132nd century BC 131st century BC

The Stone Age
↑ before Homo (Pliocene)
Paleolithic Lower Paleolithic Early Stone Age Homo Control of fire Stone tools Middle Paleolithic Middle Stone Age Homo neanderthalensis Homo sapiens Recent African origin of modern humans Upper Paleolithic Later Stone Age Behavioral modernity, Atlatl, Origin of the domestic dog Epipalaeolithic Natufian Mesolithic Microliths, Bow and Arrows, Canoes Tahunian Heavy Neolithic Shepherd Neolithic Trihedral Neolithic Pre-Pottery Neolithic Neolithic Neolithic Revolution Domestication Khiamian culture Pottery Neolithic Pottery
↓ Chalcolithic
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The 14th millennium BC spanned the years 14,000 BC to 13,001 BC. This millennium is during the Upper Paleolithic period. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened during this millennium, and all dates associated with this millennium are estimates mostly based on geological analysis, anthropological analysis, and radiometric dating.

Discoveries and cultural developments

Japan: Beginning of the ancient Jōmon period (until 10,000 BCE), invention of pottery and signs of Mesolithic (possibly Neolithic) civilisation by the Proto-Ainu.
United States: Probable presence of humans at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter Site in Pennsylvania, where Lithic artefacts and hearths were found.^[1]

Inventions, discoveries, innovations

Europe:

Development of the magdalénian civilisations in Western Europe.
Development of microliths in Europe.

France: Lascaux Cave, a veritable gallery of rock art, also known as the "Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic" because of its wealth of cave paintings.

Germany: Hamburg culture of the Epigravettian type, (ca. 13,500 BC - ca. 11,200 BC), characterised by prongs and tools used as chisels in the working of horns. It spread from northern France to southern Scandinavia in the north and to Poland in the east.