This image shows European and nearby cultures around 8500 BC. The blue areas are covered in ice.

Legend:

1. Upper Palaeolithic cultures
2. Mesolithic cultures
3. Swiderian cultures
4. Pontic Tardenosian cultures
5. Iberian Capsian cultures
6. Oranian cultures
7. Lower Capsian cultures
8. The Fertile Crescent, with early agriculture

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(Note: 8500 BC is also 10500 BP.)

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