Editing 9th millennium BC (section)

===Americas===
In North America, the Paleo-Indian [[Clovis culture]] is believed to have ended around 8800 BC having fathered numerous local variants. One of these was the [[Folsom tradition|Folsom complex]] which was centred in the [[Great Plains]] and is dated from c.9000 to c.8000 BC. The people were hunter-gatherers who hunted the now-extinct ''[[Bison antiquus]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Folsom-complex |title=Folsom complex |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 July 2020}}</ref>

In [[Patagonia]], the Fell's Tradition prevailed through the millennium at [[Cueva Fell]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Roosevelt |first=Anna C. |title=Travels and Archaeology In South Chile |journal=The Latin American Anthropology Review |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=72–74 |year=1990 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |doi=10.1525/jlca.1990.2.2.72}}</ref> Another Paleo-Indian site in the region is the Las Cuevas Canyon near [[Los Toldos (Santa Cruz)]] where rock art has been found.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/nuevos-datos-sobre-las-pinturas-rupestres-de-los-toldos-santa-cruz-argentina-bases-para-un-enfoque-comparativo-en-patagonia-meridional/61C331AF1D4318734A2574411470493D |url-access=subscription |first1=Natalia M. |last1=Carden |first2=Laura L. |last2=Miotti |first3=Rocío V. |last3=Blanco |title=New data on the rock paintings of Los Toldos |journal=Latin American Antiquity |volume=29 |issue=2 |date=June 2018 |pages=293–310 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |access-date=23 July 2020|doi=10.1017/laq.2017.83|s2cid=165615499 |hdl=11336/88211 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

In Central America, remains of three prehistoric human fossils have been discovered since 2006 in the cave system at [[Chan Hol]] in [[Quintana Roo]], Mexico. All have been dated to around the 9th millennium.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stinnesbeck |first1=Wolfgang |display-authors=etal |title=New evidence for an early settlement of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico: The Chan Hol 3 woman and her meaning for the Peopling of the Americas |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2 |date=5 February 2020 |pages=e0227984 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0227984 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=7001910 |pmid=32023279|bibcode=2020PLoSO..1527984S |doi-access=free }}</ref>