Ok, so you may still be interested and i will carry on.
Point to note.
From 3000 BC to 0 ... So much is happening it is quite and extensive list.
With the invention of writing, log keeping, diaries, census's and everything else these ancient civilisations started doing.. it isn't as easy as saying "Here is the time between 3000 BC and 2000 BC"
So, i have divided it up into 100's of years.
(I don't know how many posts i can do on here in one go so i will carry it on later)
Stay tuned.
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The Post Track, an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England, is built,
ca. 3838 BC. It is one of the oldest engineered roads discovered in Northern Europe.
The Sweet Track, an ancient causeway also in the Somerset Levels, the oldest timber
trackway discovered in Northern Europe, is built in 3807 BC or 3806 BC,
tree-ring dating (Dendrochronology) enabled very precise dating.
Plough in use.
5.9 kiloyear event, one of the most intense aridification events during the Holocene.
Before 3000 BC: Image of a deity, detail from a cong recovered
from Tomb 12, Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made. Neolithic period.
Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou.
3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa
3000 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley
c. 3000 BC: Neolithic period ends
3000 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of united Egypt, starts to reign
3000 BC: Caral, the first city in the Americas, starts to be built.
c. 3000 BC: Troy is founded
c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version,
it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.
(National Geographic, June 2008).
3000 BC – 2350 BC: Scarlet Ware vase, from Tutub (modern Tell Khafajeh, Iraq)
is made, it is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad
3000 BC – 2000 BC: World population about 30 million.
c. 3000 BC: Epidamnos civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts
c. 3000 BC: Minoan civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts
c. 3000 BC: Norte Chico civilization in Northern Peru starts
c. 3000 BC: The Angono Petroglyphs are carved in the Philippines.
c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.
c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.
c. 2955 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies
c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian
First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.
2925 BC – 2776 BC: First Dynasty wars in Egypt.
c. 2920 BC: Djet, third pharaoh of Egypt.
2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia.
c. 2900 BC – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.
2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
c. 2900 BC – 2600 BC: Votive statues, from the Square Temple,
Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) was made. Excavated 1932–1933.
2897 BC: Hùng Vương established the Hồng Bàng Dynasty in Vietnam
(then known as Văn Lang)
2890 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of
Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.
2880 BC: Estimated germination of the Prometheus Tree
c. 2874 B.C.: The 365-day year was installed in ancient Egypt, with fixed
lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days.[1]
2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors
in China.
2832 BC: Estimated germination of the Methuselah Tree, the oldest known
living organism
2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between
Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based
on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and
Fenambosy Chevron.[2][3]
Ur becomes one of the richest cities in Sumer[4]
c. 2800 BC – 2700 BC: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made.
2775 BC – 2650 BC: Second Dynasty wars in Ancient Egypt.
Around 2773 - the 365-day calendar is introduced in Egypt.
2750 BC: End of the Early Dynastic I Period, and the beginning of the
Early Dynastic II Period in Mesopotamia.
c. 2750 BC: Estimated ending of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region
of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine
c. 2715 BC: Old Kingdom starts in Ancient Egypt (another date is 2660 BC).
2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
2775 BC – 2650 BC: Second Dynasty wars in Egypt.
2750 BC – 2600 BC: Ancient burial sites with human Skeletons are created;
they are later discovered in Ibbankatuwa, Dambulla in Sri Lanka.
2737 BC: Invention of tea as a beverage by Shennong, according to a
Chinese legend.
2700 BC: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period ended in Ancient Egypt
(according to French Egyptologist Nicolas Grimol). This period includes 1st
and 2nd Dyasties.
c. 2700 BC: Old Kingdom started in Ancient Egypt. 3rd–6th Dynasties.
c. 2697 BC:Yellow Emperor started in China.
c. 2686 BC: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period ends in Ancient Egypt
(other date is 2700 BC).
c. 2686 BC: Old Kingdom starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2700 BC).
2686 BC: Egypt: End of Second Dynasty, start of Third Dynasty. Pharaoh Khasekhemwy
died. Pharaoh Sanakhte started to reign.
c. 2685 BC: Bull lyre, from the tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was made.
c. 2681 BC – c. 2662 BC: Reign of Djoser, Pharaoh of Egypt, Third Dynasty.
2668 BC: Pharaoh Sanakhte died.
c. 2667 BC: Pharaoh Djoser starts to rule (other date is 2681 BC).
2660 BC: Archaic period ends in Ancient Egypt.
c. 2660 BC: Old Kingdom in Ancient Egypt started (Another date is 2715 BC).
c. 2648 BC: Pharaoh Djoser dies (another date is 2662 BC).
c. 2640 BC: The cultivation and weaving of silk starts to be a closely guarded secret in China.
2630 BC – 2611 BC: Imhotep, Vizier of Egypt, constructs the Pyramid of Djoser
2627 BC – 2000 BC: Construction of the Caral metropolis in Peru
2613 BC: Egypt—End of Third Dynasty, start of Fourth Dynasty. Pharaoh Huni died.
Pharaoh Sneferu started to reign.
c. 2613 BC – 2494 BC: The Great Sphinx at Giza is built. Fourth Dynasty.
c. 2601 BC – c. 2515 BC: Great Pyramids at Giza are built for Menkaure, Khafre and
Khufu. Fourth Dynasty.
c. 2601 BC: Khufu started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
2600 BC: Mature Harappan phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins.
The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro become large metropolises and the
civilization expands to over 2,500 cities and settlements across the whole of Pakistan,
much of northern India, and parts of Afghanistan and Iran, covering a region of
around one million square miles, which was larger than the land area of its
contemporaries Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, and also had superior
urban planning and sewage systems. The civilization began using the mature
Indus script for its writing system.
2600 BC: End of the Early Dynastic II Period and the beginning of the Early
Dynastic IIIa Period in Mesopotamia.
2700 BC: Mesoamericans begin to plant and domesticate corn.
c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic
period continue.
c. 2600 BC: The Harappan civilization rises to become a powerful civilization.
c. 2600 BC: Pre-Palace Period, phase I, in Crete (Mellersh 1970)
c. 2600 BC – 2500 BC: Wild horses still provide hunting feasts in
Denmark. (Clutton-Brock)
c. 2600 BC – 1900 BC: Large water tank, possibly a public or ritual bathing area,
Mohenjo-Daro, Indus Valley Civilization, Harappan, is made.
c. 2589 BC: Pharaoh Khufu starts to rule (other date is 2601 BC).
c. 2578 BC: Khufu died.
c. 2575 BC: Old Kingdom in Egypt 4th Dynasty Snofru is Pharaoh.
(Atlas of Egypt 1989)
c. 2570 BC: Khafra started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
c. 2566 BC: Pharaoh Khufu dies (other date is 2578 BC).
c. 2558 BC: Pharaoh Khafra starts to rule (other date is 2570 BC).
c. 2550 BC: Estimated date of completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
c. 2550 BC: Egyptian rulers contact Western Desert oases, such as
Dakhla Oasis.
c. 2550 BC: About this time, Mesannepada is king of Ur (followed by his son,
A-annepadda) who founds the First dynasty of Ur and overthrows the last
king of Uruk, as well as Mesalim of Kish. [Roux 1980]
c. 2550 BC – 2400 BC: Great Lyre with bull's head, from the tomb of King
Meskalamdug, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq, is made
c. 2544 BC: Khafra died.
c. 2533 BC: Menkaura started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
c. 2532 BC: Pharaoh Khafra dies (other date is 2544 BC).
c. 2532 BC: Pharaoh Menkaura starts to rule (other date is 2533 BC).
c. 2515 BC: Menkaura died.
c. 2510 BC – 2460 BC: Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti,
Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt, is made. Discovered by
French archeologist Auguste Mariette in 1865.
c. 2503 BC: Pharaoh Menkaura dies (other date is 2515 BC).
c. 2500 BC: The legendary line of Sanhuangwudi rulers of China
is founded by Huang Di.
c. 2500 BC: the construction of the stone circle at Stonehenge begins and
continues for the next five hundred years.
c. 2500 BC: "Menkaura and a Queen, perhaps his wife, Queen Khamerernebty II"
sculpture, later found at Giza. Fourth Dynasty.
c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
c. 2500 BC: Rice was first introduced to Malaysia
c. 2500 BC: Scribal schools flourish throughout Sumer.
c. 2500 BC: Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression are made..
c. 2500 BC: Excavation and development of the Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni at
Paola, Malta, a subterranean templex complex subsequently used as a necropolis.
c. 2500 BC: Valley Temple of Khafra, Giza, is built.
c. 2500 BC: Khafra from Giza Valley, Temple of Khafra is made. Fourth dynasty of Egypt.
Discovered by Auguste Mariette. It is now kept in Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
c. 2500 BC: People in Peru rely on fish and mussels for food.
c. 2500 BC – 2000 BC: Mohenjo-Daro is about 7 square miles (18 km2) in
size and has a population of c. 20,000 to 50,000.
c. 2494 BC: End of Fourth Dynasty, start of Fifth Dynasty in Egypt.
Construction of the Pyramids begins.
c. 2494 BC – 2345 BC: "Sculptors at work", relief from Saqqara, Fifth Dynasty.
c. 2494 BC – 2345 BC: "Seated Scribe" from tomb of vizier Kai [Saqqara, sculpture,
Fifth dynasty of Egypt is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.
2492 BC: Traditional date for the legendary foundation of the Armenian nation (see Haik).
2467 BC: According to Chinese tradition, in this year Huangdi (the Yellow Emperor)
rose from the tribes of Zhongyuan. This is traditionally considered the starting point of
Chinese Civilization.
c. 2450 BC: End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic
IIIb Period in Sumer.
c. 2450 BC: Kish is lost to Khamazi tribesmen of the Kurdistan mountains; Elamites
from Awan occupy parts of Sumer. (Roux 1980)
c. 2410 BC: By this time, kings in Sumer have ceased to be automatically high priests
of the city deity. (Roux 1980) Semitic infiltration and conquest of Mesopotamia begins.
(1968 RD Almanac)
Megalithic Culture begins to spread through Europe and the western Mediterranean.
(1968 RD Almanac)
Celts begin invading Europe from the east. (1968 RD Almanac)
Earliest signs of Battle Axe Culture from the Caucasus. (Encyc. Americana)
Southeastern Spain is settled from the Mediterranean, by people using
Predynastic Egyptian-style pottery. (Encyc. Americana)
Amorites and Canaanites occupy Syria and Lebanon. (Encyc. Americana)
c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early
Dynastic period continue.
c. 2400 BC-2000 BC: Large Painted Jar with Border Containing Birds, from
Chanhu-Daro, Indus Valley Civilization, is made.
c. 2360 BC: Hekla-4 eruption.
c. 2350 BC: End of the Early Dynastic IIIb period in Mesopotamia.
c. 2350 BC: First destruction of the city of Mari.
c. 2345 BC: End of Fifth Dynasty. Pharaoh Unas died.
c. 2345 BC: Sixth dynasty of Egypt starts (other date is 2460 BC).
c. 2340 BC – 2180 BC: Akkadian Empire.
c. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: Semitic chieftain Sargon of Akkad's
conquest of Sumer and Mesopotamia.
City of Lothal founded under the Indus valley civilization.
2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest
of Mesopotamia.
2333 BC: Beginning of the Gojoseon, the first dynasty and government system
in Korea.
c. 2300 BC: Bronze Age starts.
c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: Disk of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made.
c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: Head of a man from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made.
c. 2300 BC: Canal Bahr Yusuf (current name) is created when the waterway
from the Nile to the natural lake (now Lake Moeris) is widened and deepened to create a canal.
c. 2288 BC – 2224/2194 BC: Pepy II and his mother, Queen Merye-ankhnes,
Sixth dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.
c. 2278 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II starts to rule (other date is 2383 BC).
c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in
Susa (modern Shush, Iran), is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.
c. 2240 BC: Akkad, capital of the Akkadian Empire, becomes the
largest city in the world, surpassing Memphis, capital of Egypt.[1]
c. 2215 BC: Comet Hale-Bopp appeared. A Guti army swept down from
the Zagros Mountains and defeated the demoralized Akkadian army.
They took Agade, the capital of Akkad, and destroyed it thoroughly.
c. 2300 BC: Metals started to be used in Northern Europe.
4.2 kiloyear event – a severe aridification event that probably lasted the entire
22nd century BC and caused the collapse of several Old World civilizations.
2217 BC – 2193 BC: Nomadic invasions of Akkad.
2200 BC: Sixth dynasty of Egypt ended.
c. 2190 BC: Caused by a severe drought, Old Kingdom finished in Ancient Egypt.
Start of First Intermediate Period. 7th–10th Dynasties.
c. 2184 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare dies (other date is 2289 BC?).
c. 2181 BC: Old Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2190 BC).
c. 2181 BC: First Intermediate Period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2190 BC).
2181 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Nitocris died. End of Sixth Dynasty, start of Seventh Dynasty.
Pharaoh Neferkara I started to reign.
2180 BC: Old Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt. First Intermediate Period of Egypt starts.
c. 2180 BC: Akkadian Empire fell under attack by the Guti (Mesopotamia),
a mountain people from the northeast.
2173 BC: Egypt: End of Seventh Dynasty, start of Eighth Dynasty.
2160 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Neferirkara died. End of Eighth Dynasty, start of
Ninth Dynasty. Pharaoh Neferkare started to reign.
c. 2160 BC: Beginning of Middle Minoan period in Crete.
c. 2150 – 2030 BC: Gilgamesh epic was written.
c. 2150 BC: Lagash.
c. 2144 BC: Gudea, the ruler (ensi) of the city of Lagash, started to reign.
2138 BC: Babylon: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar eclipse on
24 May occurred and are believed to be the double eclipse that took place 23 years
after the ascension of king Shulgi of Babylon by those holding to the long chronology.
2130 BC: Egypt: End of Ninth Dynasty, start of Tenth Dynasty. Ninth Dynasty wars in
Egypt started.
c. 2125 BC – 2055 BC: "Model of a house and garden, from Thebes".
Eleventh dynasty of Egypt. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2124 BC: Gudea, the ruler (ensi) of the city of Lagash, died.
c. 2120 BC: Votive statue of Gudea from Lagash (Iraq) was made.
It is now in the Musée du Louvre.
2119 BC – 2113 BC: (middle chronology), Utu-hengal, first king of the
third dynasty of Ur.
2116 BC – 2110 BC: Uruk–Gutian war.
2112 BC – 2095 BC: Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu.
2104 BC – 2103 BC: Date of the Biblical flood according to the
Hebrew Calendar.
c. 2100 BC – c. 2050 BC: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was built.
2091 BC: Beginning of the Patriarchal Age was traditionally set in this year.
2080 BC: Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt.
2080 BC: First Intermediate Period of Egypt ended. Middle Kingdom
began in Ancient Egypt.
2071 BC: Magh Ithe, first recorded battle in Ireland myths.
2070 BC (disputable): Yu the Great set up the Xia Dynasty, which isn't verified by
archeological findings, some propose the Erlitou culture.
c. 2064 BC – 1986 BC: Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
c. 2055 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt (another date is 2040 BC).
c. 2055 BC: Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2040 BC).
c. 2055 BC: Mentuhotep II from Thebes managed to reunite Ancient Egypt and
began to rule (other date is 2040 BC).
c. 2055 BC – 1985 BC: Funerary Stele of Amenemhat I was made. Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt.
Excavated in 1915–1916. It is now kept in Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
c. 2049 BC: Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
c. 2040 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt.
Start of Middle Kingdom. 11th–14th Dynasties.
2040 BC: Beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty and government
system in China.
2040 BC: Pharaoh Merykare died. End of Tenth dynasty of Egypt.
Pharaoh Mentuhotep II started to rule. Start of Eleventh Dynasty.
2034 BC – 2004 BC: Ur–Amorite wars.
c. 2009 BC – 1997 BC: Funerary temple of Mentuhotep III was built.
Eleventh Dynasty.
2004 BC: Elamite destruction of Ur.
c. 2004 BC: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II, Eleventh dynasty of Egypt dies.
c. 2000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age ended.
3000 1st Dynasties of…
Mesopotamia
Minoan / Mycenaean
3000 Furthest back as Cuniform Script describing
the world… Cuniform Script is first written text
usually on Clay tablets or on walls.
2800 Imhotep Built Pyramid @ Sakkara
2800 - 2205 Chinese Dynasties 1st
2700 Egypt Started Hieroglyphs
2600 Earliest Mayan Culture recorded
Central America
2600 Kings 4th Dynasty build Giza pyramids
2500 Britains discover cooking utencils and cutlery
2500 - 1500 Indus Vally Civilization formed
2400 Stonehenge and Neolithic
cultures start in Britain
first useage of animal hides as housing.
2300 The name of God put on
a list of Gods and known as the
Ruler of the Gods… EL… aka… Deity… Jovah
2200 - 500 Bronze Age Europe
2200 - 1500 The Xia Dynasty China,
First known use of writing
Agriculture and Irigation in Asia.
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4000 BC to 3000 BC Continued...
c. 3100 BC: Narmer (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Egypt into one country;
he rules this new country from Memphis.
c. 3100 BC: Narmer, pharaoh, rules (other dates are 3150 BC–3125 BC).
c. 3100 BC: Predynastic period (Neolithic) ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 3150 BC).
c. 3100 BC: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 3150 BC).
c. 3100 BC: The first temple of Tarxien is in use by the Neolithic
inhabitants of Malta.[1]
c. 3100 BC: First stage in the construction of Stonehenge.[2]
c. 3100 BC – 2600 BC: Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland is inhabited.
Discovered 1850.
c. 3100 BC: Anu Ziggurat and White Temple in Uruk, Mesopotamia
(modern Warka, Iraq) are built.
c. 3100 BC: Humans develop a writing system, cuneiform script.
c. 3150 BC: Narmer (First Dynasty) started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
c. 3125 BC: Narmer died.
Varna Necropolis: what have been claimed to be the earliest-known
worked gold artifacts are manufactured.
Malta: Construction of the Ħaġar Qim megalithic temples, featuring both
solar and lunar alignments. "Tarxien period" of megalithic temple
construction reaches its apex.
Ancient Egypt: Earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs, beginning of the
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt.
Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization.
Neolithic settlement built at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
New Stone Age people in Ireland build the 250,000 ton (226,796.2 tonne)
Newgrange solar oriented passage tomb.
c. 3100 BC: The earliest phase of Stonehenge construction begins.
Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert.
Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of proto-writing.
Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harappan civilization or Sindu-Sarasvati civilization) began in Harappa.
c. 3300 BC—Pictographs in Uruk.
3300 BC – 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made.
Death of 'Ginger', the earliest known ancient Egyptian "mummy".
Life and death of Ötzi the Iceman, a mummy discovered in the Austrian/Italian Alps in 1991.
Plough is first used.
Funnelbeaker culture
Stage IIIa2 of the Naqada culture in Egypt (dated in 1998).
Forms of the cuneiform script (now archaic) emerge in the late Uruk period.
The 35th century BC in the Near East sees the gradual transition from the Chalcolithic
to the Early Bronze Age. Proto-writing enters transitional stage, developing towards
writing proper. Wheeled vehicles are now known beyond Mesopotamia,
having spread north of the Caucasus and to Europe.
Civilization of Sumer (?)
Ggantija, Malta
Mnajdra solar temple complex, Malta
Colombia, first rupestrian art at Chiribiquete (Caquetá).
First known use of tin (with bronze implements)
Beginning of the Early Minoan period on Crete
The beginning of the Mayan calendar
Ancient Egyptians Start on Pyramids
October 7, 3761 BC—The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar
September 25, 3760 BC—First day of the modern Hebrew calendar (the creation); late in AM 1.
The Post Track, an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England, is built,
ca. 3838 BC. It is one of the oldest engineered roads discovered in Northern Europe.
The Sweet Track, an ancient causeway also in the Somerset Levels, the oldest timber
trackway discovered in Northern Europe, is built in 3807 BC or 3806 BC,
tree-ring dating (Dendrochronology) enabled very precise dating.
Plough in use.
5.9 kiloyear event, one of the most intense aridification events during the Holocene.
Before 3000 BC: Image of a deity, detail from a cong recovered
from Tomb 12, Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made. Neolithic period.
Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou.
3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa
3000 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley
c. 3000 BC: Neolithic period ends
3000 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of united Egypt, starts to reign
3000 BC: Caral, the first city in the Americas, starts to be built.
c. 3000 BC: Troy is founded
c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version,
it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.
(National Geographic, June 2008).
3000 BC – 2350 BC: Scarlet Ware vase, from Tutub (modern Tell Khafajeh, Iraq)
is made, it is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad
3000 BC – 2000 BC: World population about 30 million.
c. 3000 BC: Epidamnos civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts
c. 3000 BC: Minoan civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts
c. 3000 BC: Norte Chico civilization in Northern Peru starts
c. 3000 BC: The Angono Petroglyphs are carved in the Philippines.
c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.
c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.
c. 2955 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies
c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian
First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.
2925 BC – 2776 BC: First Dynasty wars in Egypt.
c. 2920 BC: Djet, third pharaoh of Egypt.
2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia.
3200 first inscriptions to the first coherent
textual sources (ca. 3200 to 2600 BC).
3400 proto literate cuneiform enters middle east
3300 Indian first ever culture formed.
Coming from middle east.
3200 Egyptian state established
Menes united Upper and Lower
3114 Mayan Calender start point…
supposed start of Earth
he rules this new country from Memphis.
c. 3100 BC: Narmer, pharaoh, rules (other dates are 3150 BC–3125 BC).
c. 3100 BC: Predynastic period (Neolithic) ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 3150 BC).
c. 3100 BC: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 3150 BC).
c. 3100 BC: The first temple of Tarxien is in use by the Neolithic
inhabitants of Malta.[1]
c. 3100 BC: First stage in the construction of Stonehenge.[2]
c. 3100 BC – 2600 BC: Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland is inhabited.
Discovered 1850.
c. 3100 BC: Anu Ziggurat and White Temple in Uruk, Mesopotamia
(modern Warka, Iraq) are built.
c. 3100 BC: Humans develop a writing system, cuneiform script.
c. 3150 BC: Narmer (First Dynasty) started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
c. 3125 BC: Narmer died.
Varna Necropolis: what have been claimed to be the earliest-known
worked gold artifacts are manufactured.
Malta: Construction of the Ħaġar Qim megalithic temples, featuring both
solar and lunar alignments. "Tarxien period" of megalithic temple
construction reaches its apex.
Ancient Egypt: Earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs, beginning of the
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt.
Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization.
Neolithic settlement built at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
New Stone Age people in Ireland build the 250,000 ton (226,796.2 tonne)
Newgrange solar oriented passage tomb.
c. 3100 BC: The earliest phase of Stonehenge construction begins.
Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert.
Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of proto-writing.
Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harappan civilization or Sindu-Sarasvati civilization) began in Harappa.
c. 3300 BC—Pictographs in Uruk.
3300 BC – 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made.
Death of 'Ginger', the earliest known ancient Egyptian "mummy".
Life and death of Ötzi the Iceman, a mummy discovered in the Austrian/Italian Alps in 1991.
Plough is first used.
Funnelbeaker culture
Stage IIIa2 of the Naqada culture in Egypt (dated in 1998).
Forms of the cuneiform script (now archaic) emerge in the late Uruk period.
The 35th century BC in the Near East sees the gradual transition from the Chalcolithic
to the Early Bronze Age. Proto-writing enters transitional stage, developing towards
writing proper. Wheeled vehicles are now known beyond Mesopotamia,
having spread north of the Caucasus and to Europe.
Civilization of Sumer (?)
Ggantija, Malta
Mnajdra solar temple complex, Malta
Colombia, first rupestrian art at Chiribiquete (Caquetá).
First known use of tin (with bronze implements)
Beginning of the Early Minoan period on Crete
The beginning of the Mayan calendar
Ancient Egyptians Start on Pyramids
October 7, 3761 BC—The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar
September 25, 3760 BC—First day of the modern Hebrew calendar (the creation); late in AM 1.
The Post Track, an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England, is built,
ca. 3838 BC. It is one of the oldest engineered roads discovered in Northern Europe.
The Sweet Track, an ancient causeway also in the Somerset Levels, the oldest timber
trackway discovered in Northern Europe, is built in 3807 BC or 3806 BC,
tree-ring dating (Dendrochronology) enabled very precise dating.
Plough in use.
5.9 kiloyear event, one of the most intense aridification events during the Holocene.
Before 3000 BC: Image of a deity, detail from a cong recovered
from Tomb 12, Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made. Neolithic period.
Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou.
3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa
3000 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley
c. 3000 BC: Neolithic period ends
3000 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of united Egypt, starts to reign
3000 BC: Caral, the first city in the Americas, starts to be built.
c. 3000 BC: Troy is founded
c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version,
it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.
(National Geographic, June 2008).
3000 BC – 2350 BC: Scarlet Ware vase, from Tutub (modern Tell Khafajeh, Iraq)
is made, it is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad
3000 BC – 2000 BC: World population about 30 million.
c. 3000 BC: Epidamnos civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts
c. 3000 BC: Minoan civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts
c. 3000 BC: Norte Chico civilization in Northern Peru starts
c. 3000 BC: The Angono Petroglyphs are carved in the Philippines.
c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.
c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.
c. 2955 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies
c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian
First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.
2925 BC – 2776 BC: First Dynasty wars in Egypt.
c. 2920 BC: Djet, third pharaoh of Egypt.
2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia.
3200 first inscriptions to the first coherent
textual sources (ca. 3200 to 2600 BC).
3400 proto literate cuneiform enters middle east
3300 Indian first ever culture formed.
Coming from middle east.
3200 Egyptian state established
Menes united Upper and Lower
3114 Mayan Calender start point…
supposed start of Earth
4000 BC to 3000 BC
Bede began his history of the world with 3952 BC
In their ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, Freemasons add
4000 years to the current Anno Domini calendar year and append
"Anno Lucis" ("Year of Light") to the year (i.e., 2010 AD = 6010 AL).
This alternative calendar era, which would designate 4000 BC as
"year zero", was created in the 18th century in deference to the
Hebrew calendar's era dating system and other ideas regarding the
year of creation at the time.
c. 4000 BC, Liangzhu culture in China.
c. 4000 BC, More than 100 dwellings surrounding a community center,
a cemetery and a kiln are built in Jiangzhai, near modern Xi'an, China.
Start of Naqada culture in Egypt.
Early Jōmon period begins on the islands of Japan.
Domestication of horses.
Plough in use.
Neolithic settlers begin to locate their communities at sites most easily defended,
near rivers, on plateaus, or in swamps. For additional protection, they also frequently
surround them with wooden walls, earth embankments and ditches.
Civilizations develop in the Mesopotamia/Fertile crescent region (around the location of modern day Iraq).
The first Korean civilization is founded around this era. According to myth, the founder is the
son of a god and a she-bear who turned into a human.
Clay pots and vats discovered at a sprawling cave system in southern Armenia
near the border with Iran shows signs of an organized effort to press and distill grapes during the Copper Age.
3600 - 2300 Yamna Culture
Norway - Germany - Turkey - S Russia
Started around West China and South Russia (North Middle East)
Possible ancestors of Vikings.
In their ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, Freemasons add
4000 years to the current Anno Domini calendar year and append
"Anno Lucis" ("Year of Light") to the year (i.e., 2010 AD = 6010 AL).
This alternative calendar era, which would designate 4000 BC as
"year zero", was created in the 18th century in deference to the
Hebrew calendar's era dating system and other ideas regarding the
year of creation at the time.
c. 4000 BC, Liangzhu culture in China.
c. 4000 BC, More than 100 dwellings surrounding a community center,
a cemetery and a kiln are built in Jiangzhai, near modern Xi'an, China.
Start of Naqada culture in Egypt.
Early Jōmon period begins on the islands of Japan.
Domestication of horses.
Plough in use.
Neolithic settlers begin to locate their communities at sites most easily defended,
near rivers, on plateaus, or in swamps. For additional protection, they also frequently
surround them with wooden walls, earth embankments and ditches.
Civilizations develop in the Mesopotamia/Fertile crescent region (around the location of modern day Iraq).
The first Korean civilization is founded around this era. According to myth, the founder is the
son of a god and a she-bear who turned into a human.
Clay pots and vats discovered at a sprawling cave system in southern Armenia
near the border with Iran shows signs of an organized effort to press and distill grapes during the Copper Age.
3600 - 2300 Yamna Culture
Norway - Germany - Turkey - S Russia
Started around West China and South Russia (North Middle East)
Possible ancestors of Vikings.
5000 BC to 4000 BC
The 5th millennium BC saw the spread of agriculture from the
Near East throughout southern and central Europe.
Urban cultures in Mesopotamia and Anatolia flourished, developing the
wheel. Copper ornaments became more common, marking the
Chalcolithic. Animal husbandry spread throughout Eurasia, reaching
China. World population grew slightly throughout the millennium,
maybe from 5 to 7 million people.
Rice is domesticated in China. Later it is introduced in the Ganges
Valley and the rest of Asia (c. 5000 BC).
Farming reaches Atlantic coast of Europe from Ancient Near East (c. 5000 BC).
Maize is cultivated in Mexico (c. 5000 BC).[1]
Writing systems, such as ideographic Vinca script, Tartaria tablets (c. 5000 BC)
c. 5000 BC, Metallurgy appears.
c. 5000 BC, Agriculture starts in Ancient Japan. Beans and gourds are cultivated.
Plough is introduced in Europe (c. 4500 BC)
Copper pins dating to 4000 BC found in Egypt.[1]
Water buffalo are domesticated in China
Beer brewing is developed.
Wheel is developed in Mesopotamia and India
c. 5000 BC: Pelasgians migrate to the Balkans
5000–4500 BC: Għar Dalam phase of Neolithic farmers on Malta,
possibly immigrant farmers from the Agrigento region of Sicily.
Cucuteni-Trypillia culture
5000–4000 BC: Bowl, from Banpo, near Xi'an, Shaanxi, is made.
Neolithic period. Yangshao culture. It is now kept at Banpo Museum.
5000–2000 BC: Neolithic period in China.
4900–4600 BC: Arrangements of circular ditches are built in Central Europe.
4800 BC: Dimini culture replaces the Sesklo culture in Thessaly (4800–4000 BC)
c. 4500 BC: Settlement of Chirokitia dates from this period.
c. 4500 BC: Ending of Neolithic IA (the Aceramic) in Cyprus
c. 4350 BC: Kikai Caldera forms in a massive VEI7 eruption.
4300 BC: Theta Boötis became the nearest visible star to the
celestial north pole. It remained the closest until 3942 BC
when it was replaced by Thuban.
c. 4250–3750 BC: Menhir alignments at Menec, Carnac, France are made.
4200 BC: Date of Mesolithic examples of Naalebinding found in
Denmark, marking spread of technology to Northern Europe. (Bender 1990)
4100–3500 BC: New wave of immigration to Malta from Sicily
leads to the Żebbuġ and Mġarr phases, and to the Ġgantija phase of temple builders.
5000–4900 BC: The Older Peron transgression, a warm period that would dominate the 5th millennium, begins in this period.
4713 BC: The epoch (origin) of the Julian Period described by Joseph Justus Scaliger
occurred on January 1, the astronomical Julian day number zero.
4121 BC: Eduard Meyer's date for the creation of the Egyptian calendar, based on his calculations of the Sothic cycle.
4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based
on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.
55 - 4500 Vinca Culture
55 - 2750 Cucuteni Trypillian Culture
5000 American Culture established
44 - 4100 Varna Culture
43 - 3500 Boian Culture
30 - 2200 Vucedol Culture
4000 - 3000 Proto writing Developed
4000 State of Sumar (Egypt)
grew to 7 - 14 million people
Established and grew to prominance.
4200 - 300 AD Mesopotamian Religion Era…
Thought to be a
Religion that makes Christianity True…
Similarities between Old Testiment and
these guys beliefs
4000 First real settlements in England
4000 Stone Age Britain
Near East throughout southern and central Europe.
Urban cultures in Mesopotamia and Anatolia flourished, developing the
wheel. Copper ornaments became more common, marking the
Chalcolithic. Animal husbandry spread throughout Eurasia, reaching
China. World population grew slightly throughout the millennium,
maybe from 5 to 7 million people.
Rice is domesticated in China. Later it is introduced in the Ganges
Valley and the rest of Asia (c. 5000 BC).
Farming reaches Atlantic coast of Europe from Ancient Near East (c. 5000 BC).
Maize is cultivated in Mexico (c. 5000 BC).[1]
Writing systems, such as ideographic Vinca script, Tartaria tablets (c. 5000 BC)
c. 5000 BC, Metallurgy appears.
c. 5000 BC, Agriculture starts in Ancient Japan. Beans and gourds are cultivated.
Plough is introduced in Europe (c. 4500 BC)
Copper pins dating to 4000 BC found in Egypt.[1]
Water buffalo are domesticated in China
Beer brewing is developed.
Wheel is developed in Mesopotamia and India
c. 5000 BC: Pelasgians migrate to the Balkans
5000–4500 BC: Għar Dalam phase of Neolithic farmers on Malta,
possibly immigrant farmers from the Agrigento region of Sicily.
Cucuteni-Trypillia culture
5000–4000 BC: Bowl, from Banpo, near Xi'an, Shaanxi, is made.
Neolithic period. Yangshao culture. It is now kept at Banpo Museum.
5000–2000 BC: Neolithic period in China.
4900–4600 BC: Arrangements of circular ditches are built in Central Europe.
4800 BC: Dimini culture replaces the Sesklo culture in Thessaly (4800–4000 BC)
c. 4500 BC: Settlement of Chirokitia dates from this period.
c. 4500 BC: Ending of Neolithic IA (the Aceramic) in Cyprus
c. 4350 BC: Kikai Caldera forms in a massive VEI7 eruption.
4300 BC: Theta Boötis became the nearest visible star to the
celestial north pole. It remained the closest until 3942 BC
when it was replaced by Thuban.
c. 4250–3750 BC: Menhir alignments at Menec, Carnac, France are made.
4200 BC: Date of Mesolithic examples of Naalebinding found in
Denmark, marking spread of technology to Northern Europe. (Bender 1990)
4100–3500 BC: New wave of immigration to Malta from Sicily
leads to the Żebbuġ and Mġarr phases, and to the Ġgantija phase of temple builders.
5000–4900 BC: The Older Peron transgression, a warm period that would dominate the 5th millennium, begins in this period.
4713 BC: The epoch (origin) of the Julian Period described by Joseph Justus Scaliger
occurred on January 1, the astronomical Julian day number zero.
4121 BC: Eduard Meyer's date for the creation of the Egyptian calendar, based on his calculations of the Sothic cycle.
4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based
on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.
55 - 4500 Vinca Culture
55 - 2750 Cucuteni Trypillian Culture
5000 American Culture established
44 - 4100 Varna Culture
43 - 3500 Boian Culture
30 - 2200 Vucedol Culture
4000 - 3000 Proto writing Developed
4000 State of Sumar (Egypt)
grew to 7 - 14 million people
Established and grew to prominance.
4200 - 300 AD Mesopotamian Religion Era…
Thought to be a
Religion that makes Christianity True…
Similarities between Old Testiment and
these guys beliefs
4000 First real settlements in England
4000 Stone Age Britain
6000 BC to 5000 BC
During the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spread from the Balkans to
Italy and Eastern Europe, and also from Mesopotamia to Egypt.
World population was essentially stable at
approximately 5 million, though some speculate up to 7 million.
A massive volcanic landslide off of Mt. Etna, Sicily caused a megatsunami
which devastated the eastern Mediterranean coastline on three continents.[1]
c. 6000 BC: The Mehrgarh culture reaches its height c. 6000 BC. The Mehrgarh
site is one of the most important Neolithic sites in the world. It is located in present-day
Pakistan (Baluchistan Province).
c. 6000 BC: The entire 6th Millennium was a part of the Holocene climatic optimum
(so were the 4th, 5th, and 7th Millennia). This was a warm period also known as the
Atlantic period. This period was characterized by minimal glaciation and high sea levels.
(McEvedy)
c. 6000 BC: Records of the Mosyllonian civilization in Somalia
c. 6000 BC: The Copper Age comes to the Fertile Crescent. (Roux 1980)
First use of copper in Middle East. (Bailey 1973)
c. 6000 BC: Fully Neolithic agriculture has spread through Anatolia to the
Balkans. (1967 McEvedy)
c. 6000 BC: Equids disappear from the Americas.
c. 6000 BC: Junglefowl kept in India.
c. 6000 BC: Female figurines holding serpents are fashioned on Crete and
may have been associated with water, regenerative power and protection of the home.
c. 5900 BC: Prehistoric Vinca culture emerges on the shores of lower Danube.
c. 5800 BC: Beginning of the Dadiwan culture in China.
c. 5800 BC: The Hosanna Period in Mesopotamia, with the earliest
version of stamp seals. (Roux 1980)
c. 5760 BC: The volcano Puy-de-Dôme in France erupts.
c. 5677 BC: Cataclysmic volcanic explosion of 12,000-foot (3,700 m) high
Mount Mazama creates Oregon's Crater Lake[2] when the resulting caldera fills with
water. With a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7, it remains the largest single
Holocene eruption in history of the Cascade Range.
c. 5600 BC: Beginning of the desertification of North Africa, which ultimately
lead to the creation of the Sahara desert. It's possible this process pushed some
natives into migrating to the region of the Nile in the east, thereby laying the
groundwork for the rise of Egyptian civilization.
c. 5600 BC: The Red Paint People become established in the region from present-day
Labrador to New York state.
5509 BC: The Byzantine calendar dates creation to 1 September of this year.
c. 5500 BC: Beginning of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of modern-day
Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine
c. 5500 BC: Beginning of the Xinle culture in China.
c. 5500 BC: Agriculture started in Ancient Egypt.
c. 5500 BC: Predynastic period (Neolithic) starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 4350 BC).
c. 5450 BC: Volcano Hekla eruption.
c. 5400 BC: Beginning of the Zhaobaogou culture in China.
c. 5400 BC: Irrigation and the beginning of the Sumerian civilization in Southern Iraq.
c. 5400 BC: Watson Brake mound complex constructed in present-day Louisiana.
c. 5300 BC: Beginning of the Beixin culture in China.
c. 5200 BC: Beginning of human inhabitation and settlements in Malta.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Hemudu culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Daxi culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Majiabang culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Yangshao culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Farming reached central and north Europe.
c. 7000 BC: Beginning the Holocene climatic optimum.
c. 6000 BC: The land bridge connecting England with the rest
of Europe disappears beneath the waters of the North Sea and the
English Channel.
c. 5600 BC: According to the Black Sea deluge theory, the
Black Sea floods with salt water. Some 3000 cubic miles
(12,500 km³) of salt water is added, significantly expanding it
and transforming it from a fresh-water landlocked lake into a salt water sea.
c. 6000 BC: Cycladic people started to use a coarse, poor-quality
local clay to make a variety of objects.
c. 6000 BC: Brick building was taking place at modern-day Çatalhöyük,
Turkey.[3]
Agriculture appears in the valley of the Nile.
Rice cultivated in Asia.
Plough invented.
c. 6000–5000 BC: Wine is created for the first time in Persia.
c. 5000 BC: Agriculture began in the Americas perhaps this early,
in complete isolation from the Old World.[3]
Artifacts of stone were supplemented by those of metal, and the crafts of
basketry, pottery, weaving (Africa).
Dead were buried in a fetal position, surrounded by the burial offerings and
artifacts, facing west (Africa).
Decorated, black-topped clay pots and vases; bone and ivory combs,
figurines, and tableware, are found in great numbers (Africa).
Jewelry of all types and materials (Africa).
Objects began to be made not only with a function, but also with an
aesthetic value. (Africa)
Organized, permanent settlements focused around agriculture. (Africa)
6000 Jiahu symbols carved
carved into shells in China
5400 - 2500 Cave paintings in Sahara
5000 Nile Vally Egyptian culture established
5000 - 1200 Bronze Age Starts Middle East
5000 invention of the wheel
Italy and Eastern Europe, and also from Mesopotamia to Egypt.
World population was essentially stable at
approximately 5 million, though some speculate up to 7 million.
A massive volcanic landslide off of Mt. Etna, Sicily caused a megatsunami
which devastated the eastern Mediterranean coastline on three continents.[1]
c. 6000 BC: The Mehrgarh culture reaches its height c. 6000 BC. The Mehrgarh
site is one of the most important Neolithic sites in the world. It is located in present-day
Pakistan (Baluchistan Province).
c. 6000 BC: The entire 6th Millennium was a part of the Holocene climatic optimum
(so were the 4th, 5th, and 7th Millennia). This was a warm period also known as the
Atlantic period. This period was characterized by minimal glaciation and high sea levels.
(McEvedy)
c. 6000 BC: Records of the Mosyllonian civilization in Somalia
c. 6000 BC: The Copper Age comes to the Fertile Crescent. (Roux 1980)
First use of copper in Middle East. (Bailey 1973)
c. 6000 BC: Fully Neolithic agriculture has spread through Anatolia to the
Balkans. (1967 McEvedy)
c. 6000 BC: Equids disappear from the Americas.
c. 6000 BC: Junglefowl kept in India.
c. 6000 BC: Female figurines holding serpents are fashioned on Crete and
may have been associated with water, regenerative power and protection of the home.
c. 5900 BC: Prehistoric Vinca culture emerges on the shores of lower Danube.
c. 5800 BC: Beginning of the Dadiwan culture in China.
c. 5800 BC: The Hosanna Period in Mesopotamia
version of stamp seals. (Roux 1980)
c. 5760 BC: The volcano Puy-de-Dôme in France erupts.
c. 5677 BC: Cataclysmic volcanic explosion of 12,000-foot (3,700 m) high
Mount Mazama creates Oregon's Crater Lake[2] when the resulting caldera fills with
water. With a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7, it remains the largest single
Holocene eruption in history of the Cascade Range.
c. 5600 BC: Beginning of the desertification of North Africa, which ultimately
lead to the creation of the Sahara desert. It's possible this process pushed some
natives into migrating to the region of the Nile in the east, thereby laying the
groundwork for the rise of Egyptian civilization.
c. 5600 BC: The Red Paint People become established in the region from present-day
Labrador to New York state.
5509 BC: The Byzantine calendar dates creation to 1 September of this year.
c. 5500 BC: Beginning of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of modern-day
Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine
c. 5500 BC: Beginning of the Xinle culture in China.
c. 5500 BC: Agriculture started in Ancient Egypt.
c. 5500 BC: Predynastic period (Neolithic) starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 4350 BC).
c. 5450 BC: Volcano Hekla eruption.
c. 5400 BC: Beginning of the Zhaobaogou culture in China.
c. 5400 BC: Irrigation and the beginning of the Sumerian civilization in Southern Iraq.
c. 5400 BC: Watson Brake mound complex constructed in present-day Louisiana.
c. 5300 BC: Beginning of the Beixin culture in China.
c. 5200 BC: Beginning of human inhabitation and settlements in Malta.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Hemudu culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Daxi culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Majiabang culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Beginning of the Yangshao culture in China.
c. 5000 BC: Farming reached central and north Europe.
c. 7000 BC: Beginning the Holocene climatic optimum.
c. 6000 BC: The land bridge connecting England with the rest
of Europe disappears beneath the waters of the North Sea and the
English Channel.
c. 5600 BC: According to the Black Sea deluge theory, the
Black Sea floods with salt water. Some 3000 cubic miles
(12,500 km³) of salt water is added, significantly expanding it
and transforming it from a fresh-water landlocked lake into a salt water sea.
c. 6000 BC: Cycladic people started to use a coarse, poor-quality
local clay to make a variety of objects.
c. 6000 BC: Brick building was taking place at modern-day Çatalhöyük,
Turkey.[3]
Agriculture appears in the valley of the Nile.
Rice cultivated in Asia.
Plough invented.
c. 6000–5000 BC: Wine is created for the first time in Persia.
c. 5000 BC: Agriculture began in the Americas perhaps this early,
in complete isolation from the Old World.[3]
Artifacts of stone were supplemented by those of metal, and the crafts of
basketry, pottery, weaving (Africa).
Dead were buried in a fetal position, surrounded by the burial offerings and
artifacts, facing west (Africa).
Decorated, black-topped clay pots and vases; bone and ivory combs,
figurines, and tableware, are found in great numbers (Africa).
Jewelry of all types and materials (Africa).
Objects began to be made not only with a function, but also with an
aesthetic value. (Africa)
Organized, permanent settlements focused around agriculture. (Africa)
6000 Jiahu symbols carved
carved into shells in China
5400 - 2500 Cave paintings in Sahara
5000 Nile Vally Egyptian culture established
5000 - 1200 Bronze Age Starts Middle East
5000 invention of the wheel
7000 BC to 6000 BC
During the 7th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from
Anatolia to the Balkans.
World population was essentially stable at around 5 million people,
living mostly scattered across the globe in small hunting-gathering
tribes. In the agricultural communities of the Middle East, the cow
was domesticated and use of pottery became common, spreading to
Europe and South Asia, and the first metal (gold and copper)
ornaments were made.
c. 7000 BC: Beginning of the Peiligang culture in China.
c. 7000 BC: Agriculture and neolithic settlement at Mehrgarh,
in current-day Baluchistan, Pakistan.
c. 7000 BC: Agriculture among the Papuan peoples of New Guinea[1]
c. 7000 BC–600 BC: Elam.
c. 7000 BC: Elam becomes farming region.
c. 7000 BC–6000 BC: Figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, was made.
c. 6850–4800 BC: Advanced agriculture and a very early use of pottery
by the Sesclo culture in Thessaly, Greece.
c. 6500 BC: Paleolithic period ended. Neolithic period started in China.
c. 6500 BC: Beginning of the Houli culture in China.
c. 6500 BC–5500 BC: Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Inhabitants traded obsidian.
c. 5000 inhabitants.
c. 6200 BC: Beginning of the Xinglongwa culture in China.
c. 6000 BC: Beginning of the Cishan culture in China.
c. 6000 BC: First traces of habitation of the Svarthola cave in Norway.
c. 7000 BC: Mesolithic site Lepenski Vir emerges in today's Serbia.
c. 7000 BC: Earliest pottery in Ancient Near East.
c. 7000 BC: Elam became farming region.
c. 7000 BC: Chinese domestication of rice, millet, soy beans, and
yams. (1990 Rand McNally Atlas)
c. 7000 BC: Red pepper, bottle gourd, avocados, and squash cultivated on
Pacific coast of Guatemala. (Bailey 1973)
c. 7000 BC-6000 BC: The transition to farming begins in Mesoamerica.
c. 6500 BC: Naalebinding, a form of knitting, used in Judean Desert
(modern day Israel).
c. 6500 BC: Two breeds of non-wolf dogs in Scandinavia; domestic hogs in
Jarmo and cattle in Turkey.
c. 6200 BC: Mural painting or map from Çatalhöyük, an early civilized city
that prospered by trading obsidian, Anatolia—modern Turkey.
6000 BC: Ban Po settlement in China.
Agriculture appears around in the Balkans, see Old European Culture.
Beekeeping is first recorded. Rock paintings on cave walls in Africa and eastern
Spain show people gathering honey from trees or rock crevices while bees
fly around them—cave drawings in Spain, near Valencia.
Pastoralism and cultivation of cereals (East Sahara).[citation needed]
Gold and native copper begin to be used.[citation needed]
Middle East: Domestication of the cow.[citation needed])
Archaic pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology
(NorthAmerica).
North America: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas begin using stone to
grind food and to hunt American Bison and smaller animals.
North America: Deciduous plants make their appearance on Long Island.
North America: Northern Atlantic Ocean is cooled by 3–6°C due to enormous floods.
Mexico—Incipient agriculture begins (North America).
Peru, Guitarrero Cave, plant fibers are twisted, knotted, and looped into baskets,
mats (South America).
Eastern Mediterranean, forms of pottery become decoration.
Animal figures of Estuarine-period rock painting in Australia include saltwater
fish and crocodiles.
c. 7000 BC: Wild horse populations drop in Europe proper; horse disappears
from the island of Great Britain, but was never found in Ireland. (Horse & Man, Clutton-Brock)
Extinction probably caused by climatic shift, leading to excessively rich spring
feed and mass lameness from founder, making them easy prey (Bolich & Ingraham)
c. 7000 BC: English Channel formed[2]
c. 7000 BC: Neolithic Subpluvial begins in northern Africa
6440±25 BC: Kurile volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has VEI 7 eruption.
It is one of the largest of the Holocene epoch
6250 BC: Eruptions occur in the Indian Heaven Volcanic field located in central
Washington State.
c. 6200 BC: The 8.2 kiloyear event was a sharp decrease in global temperatures
that lasted for 2-4 hundred years, possibly caused by an influx of glacial meltwater
into the North Atlantic ocean.
c. 6100 BC: The Storegga Slide, causing a megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea
c. 6000 BC: Rising sea levels form the Torres Strait, separating Australia from
New Guinea
c. 6000 BC: Between 12,000 BC and 5000 BC it appears that massive inland
flooding was taking place in several regions of the world, making for subsequent
sea level rises which could be relatively abrupt for many worldwide.
Anatolia to the Balkans.
World population was essentially stable at around 5 million people,
living mostly scattered across the globe in small hunting-gathering
tribes. In the agricultural communities of the Middle East, the cow
was domesticated and use of pottery became common, spreading to
Europe and South Asia, and the first metal (gold and copper)
ornaments were made.
c. 7000 BC: Beginning of the Peiligang culture in China.
c. 7000 BC: Agriculture and neolithic settlement at Mehrgarh,
in current-day Baluchistan, Pakistan.
c. 7000 BC: Agriculture among the Papuan peoples of New Guinea[1]
c. 7000 BC–600 BC: Elam.
c. 7000 BC: Elam becomes farming region.
c. 7000 BC–6000 BC: Figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, was made.
c. 6850–4800 BC: Advanced agriculture and a very early use of pottery
by the Sesclo culture in Thessaly, Greece.
c. 6500 BC: Paleolithic period ended. Neolithic period started in China.
c. 6500 BC: Beginning of the Houli culture in China.
c. 6500 BC–5500 BC: Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Inhabitants traded obsidian.
c. 5000 inhabitants.
c. 6200 BC: Beginning of the Xinglongwa culture in China.
c. 6000 BC: Beginning of the Cishan culture in China.
c. 6000 BC: First traces of habitation of the Svarthola cave in Norway.
c. 7000 BC: Mesolithic site Lepenski Vir emerges in today's Serbia.
c. 7000 BC: Earliest pottery in Ancient Near East.
c. 7000 BC: Elam became farming region.
c. 7000 BC: Chinese domestication of rice, millet, soy beans, and
yams. (1990 Rand McNally Atlas)
c. 7000 BC: Red pepper, bottle gourd, avocados, and squash cultivated on
Pacific coast of Guatemala. (Bailey 1973)
c. 7000 BC-6000 BC: The transition to farming begins in Mesoamerica.
c. 6500 BC: Naalebinding, a form of knitting, used in Judean Desert
(modern day Israel).
c. 6500 BC: Two breeds of non-wolf dogs in Scandinavia; domestic hogs in
Jarmo and cattle in Turkey.
c. 6200 BC: Mural painting or map from Çatalhöyük, an early civilized city
that prospered by trading obsidian, Anatolia—modern Turkey.
6000 BC: Ban Po settlement in China.
Agriculture appears around in the Balkans, see Old European Culture.
Beekeeping is first recorded. Rock paintings on cave walls in Africa and eastern
Spain show people gathering honey from trees or rock crevices while bees
fly around them—cave drawings in Spain, near Valencia.
Pastoralism and cultivation of cereals (East Sahara).[citation needed]
Gold and native copper begin to be used.[citation needed]
Middle East: Domestication of the cow.[citation needed])
Archaic pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology
(NorthAmerica).
North America: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas begin using stone to
grind food and to hunt American Bison and smaller animals.
North America: Deciduous plants make their appearance on Long Island.
North America: Northern Atlantic Ocean is cooled by 3–6°C due to enormous floods.
Mexico—Incipient agriculture begins (North America).
Peru, Guitarrero Cave, plant fibers are twisted, knotted, and looped into baskets,
mats (South America).
Eastern Mediterranean, forms of pottery become decoration.
Animal figures of Estuarine-period rock painting in Australia include saltwater
fish and crocodiles.
c. 7000 BC: Wild horse populations drop in Europe proper; horse disappears
from the island of Great Britain, but was never found in Ireland. (Horse & Man, Clutton-Brock)
Extinction probably caused by climatic shift, leading to excessively rich spring
feed and mass lameness from founder, making them easy prey (Bolich & Ingraham)
c. 7000 BC: English Channel formed[2]
c. 7000 BC: Neolithic Subpluvial begins in northern Africa
6440±25 BC: Kurile volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has VEI 7 eruption.
It is one of the largest of the Holocene epoch
6250 BC: Eruptions occur in the Indian Heaven Volcanic field located in central
Washington State.
c. 6200 BC: The 8.2 kiloyear event was a sharp decrease in global temperatures
that lasted for 2-4 hundred years, possibly caused by an influx of glacial meltwater
into the North Atlantic ocean.
c. 6100 BC: The Storegga Slide, causing a megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea
c. 6000 BC: Rising sea levels form the Torres Strait, separating Australia from
New Guinea
c. 6000 BC: Between 12,000 BC and 5000 BC it appears that massive inland
flooding was taking place in several regions of the world, making for subsequent
sea level rises which could be relatively abrupt for many worldwide.
8000 BC to 7000 BC
In the 8th millennium BC, agriculture became widely practised
in the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia.
Pottery became widespread (with independent development in
Central America) and animal husbandry (pastoralism) spread to Africa
and Eurasia. World population was approximately 5 million.
c. 8000 BC—The last glacial period ends.
c. 8000 BC—Upper Paleolithic period ends.
c. 8000 BC—7000 BC—Paleolithic–Neolithic overlap (Mesolithic).
c. 8000 BC—2300 BC—Neolithic period.
c. 8000 BC—Settlement in Franchthi Cave in Pelopponese, continues.
First evidence of seed and animal stocking (lentils, almonds) and obsidian
trade with Melos. The settlement was continuously occupied since 20,000 BC
and abandoned in 3000 BC.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest
Turkey are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker in present-day Buskerud,
Norway are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Ærø, Denmark are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Deepcar near present-day Sheffield, England are established.
c. 8000 BC—North American Arctic is inhabited by hunter-gatherers of the
Paleo-Arctic Tradition.
c. 8000 BC—Pre-Anasazi Paleo-Indians move into present-day
Southwest United States.
c. 8000 BC—Plano cultures inhabit the Great Plains area of North America
(from 9th millennium)
c. 8000 BC—World population: 5,000,000[1]
c. 7500 BC—Settlements at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross,
Scotland are constructed.
c. 7500 BC—Çatalhöyük, a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in
southern Anatolia, is founded.
c. 7500 BC—Cattle Period begins in the Sahara.
c. 7500 BC—Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are the first humans to reach Ireland.
c. 7370 BC—End of the large settlement at Jericho.
c. 7200–5000 BC—Ain Ghazal, Jordan is inhabited. 30 acres (120,000 m2).
c. 7600 BC—Howick house in Northumberland, England is constructed.
c. 7193 BC—According to Korean legend, an alliance of northern Altaic tribes under a "Huan"
(Hun) ruler predates the establishment of China.
c. 8000 BC—Glaciers form the rock formation in present-day
New Hampshire, USA formerly known as the "Old Man of the Mountain".
c. 7911 BC—Series of seven massive volcanic eruptions give
volcanic skies and lowered temperatures for several centuries
(ending 7090 BC). Locations not known, but show in polar ice.
(NatGeo1986–9)
c. 7640 BC—Date theorized for impact of Tollmann's hypothetical bolide
with Earth and associated global cataclysm.
c. 7220 BC—Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska.
Large outflow of fresh water from Black Sea Agian Sea
Rise of agriculture.
Bladed tools found in southwest Iran date from around 8000 BC.
They were made from Obsidian that had been transported from Anatolia.[2]
Potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America
Beginning of millet[3] and rice cultivation in East Asia
Domestication of the cat and Bos aegyptiacus ox in Ancient Egypt
Domestication of sheep in Southwest Asia
Huts, hearths, granaries, and nonportable stone tools for grinding grains Africa
Catal Huyuk, men wear animals skins, plus hats of the same mat
erial Asia
Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone
and bone, and bone flutes China
Clay and plaster are molded to form statues at Jericho and cAin
Ghazal Mediterranean
First evidence of incised "counting tokens" about 9,000 years ago
in the Neolithic fertile crescent. Asia
Japanese potters begin to decorate pottery cooking vessels Japan
Simple pottery traditions sometimes with cord impressions or other
decorative markings Korea
Agriculture in New Guinea
Evidence of wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggests that a
food-producing economy is adopted in Aegean Greece
Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece, attests to the earliest
deliberate burials in Greece
North Sea: North Sea bottoms are largely dry land before this period.
England
Pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology
Mexico
In the valley of Mexico, chili peppers and "grain" (amaranth & maize)
are grown.
World—Between 12,000 BC and 5000 BC it appears that massive
inland flooding was taking place in several regions of the world,
making for subsequent sea level rises, which could be relatively abrupt
for many worldwide
in the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia.
Pottery became widespread (with independent development in
Central America) and animal husbandry (pastoralism) spread to Africa
and Eurasia. World population was approximately 5 million.
c. 8000 BC—The last glacial period ends.
c. 8000 BC—Upper Paleolithic period ends.
c. 8000 BC—7000 BC—Paleolithic–Neolithic overlap (Mesolithic).
c. 8000 BC—2300 BC—Neolithic period.
c. 8000 BC—Settlement in Franchthi Cave in Pelopponese, continues.
First evidence of seed and animal stocking (lentils, almonds) and obsidian
trade with Melos. The settlement was continuously occupied since 20,000 BC
and abandoned in 3000 BC.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest
Turkey are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker in present-day Buskerud,
Norway are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Ærø, Denmark are established.
c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Deepcar near present-day Sheffield, England are established.
c. 8000 BC—North American Arctic is inhabited by hunter-gatherers of the
Paleo-Arctic Tradition.
c. 8000 BC—Pre-Anasazi Paleo-Indians move into present-day
Southwest United States.
c. 8000 BC—Plano cultures inhabit the Great Plains area of North America
(from 9th millennium)
c. 8000 BC—World population: 5,000,000[1]
c. 7500 BC—Settlements at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross,
Scotland are constructed.
c. 7500 BC—Çatalhöyük, a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in
southern Anatolia, is founded.
c. 7500 BC—Cattle Period begins in the Sahara.
c. 7500 BC—Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are the first humans to reach Ireland.
c. 7370 BC—End of the large settlement at Jericho.
c. 7200–5000 BC—Ain Ghazal, Jordan is inhabited. 30 acres (120,000 m2).
c. 7600 BC—Howick house in Northumberland, England is constructed.
c. 7193 BC—According to Korean legend, an alliance of northern Altaic tribes under a "Huan"
(Hun) ruler predates the establishment of China.
c. 8000 BC—Glaciers form the rock formation in present-day
New Hampshire, USA formerly known as the "Old Man of the Mountain".
c. 7911 BC—Series of seven massive volcanic eruptions give
volcanic skies and lowered temperatures for several centuries
(ending 7090 BC). Locations not known, but show in polar ice.
(NatGeo1986–9)
c. 7640 BC—Date theorized for impact of Tollmann's hypothetical bolide
with Earth and associated global cataclysm.
c. 7220 BC—Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska.
Large outflow of fresh water from Black Sea Agian Sea
Rise of agriculture.
Bladed tools found in southwest Iran date from around 8000 BC.
They were made from Obsidian that had been transported from Anatolia.[2]
Potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America
Beginning of millet[3] and rice cultivation in East Asia
Domestication of the cat and Bos aegyptiacus ox in Ancient Egypt
Domestication of sheep in Southwest Asia
Huts, hearths, granaries, and nonportable stone tools for grinding grains Africa
Catal Huyuk, men wear animals skins, plus hats of the same mat
erial Asia
Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone
and bone, and bone flutes China
Clay and plaster are molded to form statues at Jericho and cAin
Ghazal Mediterranean
First evidence of incised "counting tokens" about 9,000 years ago
in the Neolithic fertile crescent. Asia
Japanese potters begin to decorate pottery cooking vessels Japan
Simple pottery traditions sometimes with cord impressions or other
decorative markings Korea
Agriculture in New Guinea
Evidence of wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggests that a
food-producing economy is adopted in Aegean Greece
Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece, attests to the earliest
deliberate burials in Greece
North Sea: North Sea bottoms are largely dry land before this period.
England
Pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology
Mexico
In the valley of Mexico, chili peppers and "grain" (amaranth & maize)
are grown.
World—Between 12,000 BC and 5000 BC it appears that massive
inland flooding was taking place in several regions of the world,
making for subsequent sea level rises, which could be relatively abrupt
for many worldwide
9000 BC to 8000 BC
The 9th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Neolithic period.
Agriculture spread throughout the Fertile Crescent and use of pottery
became more widespread. Larger settlements like Jericho arose along salt
and flint trade routes. Northern Eurasia was resettled as the glaciers
of the last glacial maximum retreated. World population
was at a few million people, likely below 5 million.
c. 9000 BC—Mediterranean—Settling on Mediterranean isles started
c. 9000 BC—Laacher See, northwest of Frankfurt, formed when a volcano blows out
to form a caldera
c. 9000 BC—Neolithic culture begins in Ancient Near East
c. 8700–8400 BC—Britain—Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by
Maglemosian peoples
c. 8500 BC—Great Britain—Mesolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
c. 8500 BC–7370 BC; Jericho established with 2,000 inhabitants living in mud-brick
houses covering 6 acres (24,000 m2) and protected by the Wall of Jericho
c. 8300 BC—Great Britain—Nomadic hunters arrive in England
c. 8000 BC—Norway—Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
c. 8000 BC—Estonia—Pulli settlement inhabited
c. 9000 BC—The first evidence of the keeping of sheep, in northern Iraq.
c. 9000 BC—Discovery of Copper in Middle East
c. 8500 BC—Natufian culture of Western Mesopotamia is harvesting wild wheat
with flint-edged sickles. (1967 McEvedy) About this time, boats are invented, and
dogs domesticated in Europe. (1967 McEvedy)
c. 8500 BC—Andean peoples domesticate chili peppers and two kinds of bean.
c. 8000 BC—Mesopotamia—Agriculture in Mesopotamia
c. 8000 BC—Asia—Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey
c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Domestication of goats
c. 8000 BC—Asia—Evidence of domestication of dogs from wolves
c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia
belong to hunter-gatherer societies
c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta
figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran.
c. 8000 BC—Exchange of goods, a three-dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory
system and medium of exchange.
c. 8000 BC—Exchange of goods may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology.
c. 8000 BC—People of Jericho were making bricks out of clay, then hardened them in the sun.
The settlement had grown to 8–10 acres of houses and had substantial walls.
• c. 9000 BC: Temporary global chilling, as the Gulf Stream pulls southward, and
Europe ices over (1990 Rand McNally Atlas)
• c. 8000 BC—World—Rising Sea
• c. 8000 BC—Antarctica—long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
• c. 8000 BC—Asia—rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
• c. 8000 BC—World—Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time
• c. 8000 BC—North America—The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 BC the
Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.[citation needed]
• c. 8000 BC—World—Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes
place in several regions
Agriculture spread throughout the Fertile Crescent and use of pottery
became more widespread. Larger settlements like Jericho arose along salt
and flint trade routes. Northern Eurasia was resettled as the glaciers
of the last glacial maximum retreated. World population
was at a few million people, likely below 5 million.
c. 9000 BC—Mediterranean—Settling on Mediterranean isles started
c. 9000 BC—Laacher See, northwest of Frankfurt, formed when a volcano blows out
to form a caldera
c. 9000 BC—Neolithic culture begins in Ancient Near East
c. 8700–8400 BC—Britain—Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by
Maglemosian peoples
c. 8500 BC—Great Britain—Mesolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
c. 8500 BC–7370 BC; Jericho established with 2,000 inhabitants living in mud-brick
houses covering 6 acres (24,000 m2) and protected by the Wall of Jericho
c. 8300 BC—Great Britain—Nomadic hunters arrive in England
c. 8000 BC—Norway—Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
c. 8000 BC—Estonia—Pulli settlement inhabited
c. 9000 BC—The first evidence of the keeping of sheep, in northern Iraq.
c. 9000 BC—Discovery of Copper in Middle East
c. 8500 BC—Natufian culture of Western Mesopotamia is harvesting wild wheat
with flint-edged sickles. (1967 McEvedy) About this time, boats are invented, and
dogs domesticated in Europe. (1967 McEvedy)
c. 8500 BC—Andean peoples domesticate chili peppers and two kinds of bean.
c. 8000 BC—Mesopotamia—Agriculture in Mesopotamia
c. 8000 BC—Asia—Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey
c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Domestication of goats
c. 8000 BC—Asia—Evidence of domestication of dogs from wolves
c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia
belong to hunter-gatherer societies
c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta
figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran.
c. 8000 BC—Exchange of goods, a three-dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory
system and medium of exchange.
c. 8000 BC—Exchange of goods may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology.
c. 8000 BC—People of Jericho were making bricks out of clay, then hardened them in the sun.
The settlement had grown to 8–10 acres of houses and had substantial walls.
• c. 9000 BC: Temporary global chilling, as the Gulf Stream pulls southward, and
Europe ices over (1990 Rand McNally Atlas)
• c. 8000 BC—World—Rising Sea
• c. 8000 BC—Antarctica—long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
• c. 8000 BC—Asia—rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
• c. 8000 BC—World—Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time
• c. 8000 BC—North America—The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 BC the
Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.[citation needed]
• c. 8000 BC—World—Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes
place in several regions
10,000 BC to 9000 BC
The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic and
Epipaleolithic period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
Agriculture, based on the cultivation of primitive forms of millet and rice,
occurred in
Southwest Asia.[1] Although agriculture was being developed in the
Fertile Crescent, it would not be widely practised for another 2,000 years.
The world population is estimated as between one and ten million people,
most of whom were hunter-gatherer communities scattered over all continents
except Antarctica and Zealandia. The Würm glaciation ended,
and the beginning interglacial, which endures to this day,
allowed the re-settlement of
northern regions. The most recent glacial ended c. 10,000 BC, and
the world entered a period of global warming.
c. 10,000 BC; First cave drawings of the Mesolithic period are made, with war scenes
and religious scenes, beginnings of what became story telling, and metamorphosed into acting.
c. 10,000 BC; Bottle Gourd is domesticated and used as a carrying vessel.
c. 10,000 BC; end of the most recent glaciation.
c. 9500 BC; There is evidence of harvesting, though not necessarily cultivation, of wild
grasses in Asia Minor about this time.
c. 9500 BC; First building phase of the temple complex at Göbekli Tepe.
c. 9300 BC; figs were apparently cultivated in the Jordan River valley.[3]
c. 9000 BC; Neolithic culture began in Ancient Near East.
c. 9000 BC: Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.
Asia: Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.
Europe: Azilian (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy Spain, France, Switzerland,
Belgium, and Scotland.
Europe: Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France.
Europe: Horse hunting begins at Solutré.
Egypt: Early sickle blades & grinding disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing
and gathering peoples who use stone tools.
Japan: The Jōmon people use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds.
There are 10,000 known sites.
Mesopotamia: Three or more linguistic groups, including Sumerian and Semitic peoples
share a common political and cultural way of life
Mesopotamia: People begin to collect wild wheat and barley probably to make
malt then beer.
Norway: First traces of population in Randaberg.
Persia: The goat is domesticated.
Sahara: Bubalus Period.
• North America: Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies live nomadically in the countryside.
• North America: Blackwater Draw forms in eastern New Mexico, evincing human activity.
• North America: Folsom people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States.
• North America: Settlement at the Nanu site in the Queen Charlotte Islands of modern
day British Columbia begins, starting the longest continual occupation in territory now
belonging to Canada.
North America: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Giant Beaver, Ground Sloth, Giant Imperial Mammoth
(Mammuthus imperator), Jeffersonian Mammoth (Mammuthus jeffersonii),
Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), Woolly Mammoth, Mastodons, Giant
Short-Faced Bear, American Cheetah, Scimitar Cats (Homotherium), American Camels,
American Horses, and American Lions all become extinct.
Bering Sea: Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America covered in water.
North America: Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the
western end to the interior lake.
Europe: Permanent ecological change. The savannah-dwelling reindeer, bison, and
Paleolithic hunters withdraw to the sub-Arctic, leaving the rest to forest animals like deer,
aurochs, and Mesolithic foragers. (1967 McEvedy)
World: Allerod oscillation brings transient improvement in climate. Sea levels rise abruptly
and massive inland flooding occurs due to glacier melt.
c. 10,000 BC: This is the time setting for the film 10,000 BC.
c. 10,000 BC: Is also the setting for the Opar novels by Philip José Farmer –
Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar
c. 9700 BC: Lake Agassiz forms.
c. 9600 BC: Younger Dryas cold period ends. Pleistocene ends and Holocene begins.
Paleolithic ends and Mesolithic begins. Large amounts of previously glaciated land
become habitable again.
9564 BC: Destruction of Atlantis, according to theosophic tradition.
C. 9500-9000 BC; In Bryan Sykes' The Seven Daughters of Eve, the 'clan mother' of
Haplogroup J lives in Asia Minor or the Fertile Crescent.
Epipaleolithic period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
Agriculture, based on the cultivation of primitive forms of millet and rice,
occurred in
Southwest Asia.[1] Although agriculture was being developed in the
Fertile Crescent, it would not be widely practised for another 2,000 years.
The world population is estimated as between one and ten million people,
most of whom were hunter-gatherer communities scattered over all continents
except Antarctica and Zealandia. The Würm glaciation ended,
and the beginning interglacial, which endures to this day,
allowed the re-settlement of
northern regions. The most recent glacial ended c. 10,000 BC, and
the world entered a period of global warming.
c. 10,000 BC; First cave drawings of the Mesolithic period are made, with war scenes
and religious scenes, beginnings of what became story telling, and metamorphosed into acting.
c. 10,000 BC; Bottle Gourd is domesticated and used as a carrying vessel.
c. 10,000 BC; end of the most recent glaciation.
c. 9500 BC; There is evidence of harvesting, though not necessarily cultivation, of wild
grasses in Asia Minor about this time.
c. 9500 BC; First building phase of the temple complex at Göbekli Tepe.
c. 9300 BC; figs were apparently cultivated in the Jordan River valley.[3]
c. 9000 BC; Neolithic culture began in Ancient Near East.
c. 9000 BC: Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.
Asia: Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.
Europe: Azilian (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy Spain, France, Switzerland,
Belgium, and Scotland.
Europe: Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France.
Europe: Horse hunting begins at Solutré.
Egypt: Early sickle blades & grinding disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing
and gathering peoples who use stone tools.
Japan: The Jōmon people use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds.
There are 10,000 known sites.
Mesopotamia: Three or more linguistic groups, including Sumerian and Semitic peoples
share a common political and cultural way of life
Mesopotamia: People begin to collect wild wheat and barley probably to make
malt then beer.
Norway: First traces of population in Randaberg.
Persia: The goat is domesticated.
Sahara: Bubalus Period.
• North America: Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies live nomadically in the countryside.
• North America: Blackwater Draw forms in eastern New Mexico, evincing human activity.
• North America: Folsom people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States.
• North America: Settlement at the Nanu site in the Queen Charlotte Islands of modern
day British Columbia begins, starting the longest continual occupation in territory now
belonging to Canada.
North America: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Giant Beaver, Ground Sloth, Giant Imperial Mammoth
(Mammuthus imperator), Jeffersonian Mammoth (Mammuthus jeffersonii),
Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), Woolly Mammoth, Mastodons, Giant
Short-Faced Bear, American Cheetah, Scimitar Cats (Homotherium), American Camels,
American Horses, and American Lions all become extinct.
Bering Sea: Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America covered in water.
North America: Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the
western end to the interior lake.
Europe: Permanent ecological change. The savannah-dwelling reindeer, bison, and
Paleolithic hunters withdraw to the sub-Arctic, leaving the rest to forest animals like deer,
aurochs, and Mesolithic foragers. (1967 McEvedy)
World: Allerod oscillation brings transient improvement in climate. Sea levels rise abruptly
and massive inland flooding occurs due to glacier melt.
c. 10,000 BC: This is the time setting for the film 10,000 BC.
c. 10,000 BC: Is also the setting for the Opar novels by Philip José Farmer –
Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar
c. 9700 BC: Lake Agassiz forms.
c. 9600 BC: Younger Dryas cold period ends. Pleistocene ends and Holocene begins.
Paleolithic ends and Mesolithic begins. Large amounts of previously glaciated land
become habitable again.
9564 BC: Destruction of Atlantis, according to theosophic tradition.
C. 9500-9000 BC; In Bryan Sykes' The Seven Daughters of Eve, the 'clan mother' of
Haplogroup J lives in Asia Minor or the Fertile Crescent.
Ancient History 100,000 Years BC ... The Start!
100,000-50,000 BC
Largest time period genetic and rock dating traces
c. 50,000 BC: start of the Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa
43,000—41,000 At Ksar Akil in Lebanon, ornaments and skeletal remains of modern humans are dated to this period.
Cro Magnon appear in Europe, early cultural center in the
Swabian Alb, earliest figurative art (Venus of Schelklingen), beginning Aurignacian
35,000 BC Zar, Yataghyeri, Damjili and Taghlar caves in Azerbaijan.
32,000 BC Europeans understand how to harden clay figures by firing them
in an oven at high temperatures.
30,000 BC Reinvention of the bow and arrow.[9]
30,000 BC end of the Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa
Lion-Human, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany created.
29,000—25,000 BC: Venus of Dolní Věstonice. It is the oldest known ceramic in the world.
The Red Lady of Paviland lived around 29-26,000 years ago. Recent evidence has come
to light that he was a tribal chief.
28,020 BC - The Japanese, European, and Indian Calendar Began.
(The 4th Deca-millennium, 31st millennium, and 301st century began in 1980).
c. 28,000 BC: People start to live in Japan.
25,000 BC—17,000 BC: Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs,
Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardéche gorge, France, is made.
Discovered in December 1994.
c. 24,000 BC: start of the second Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa.
c. 23,000 BC: Venus of Petřkovice (Petřkovická venuše in Czech) from Petřkovice in
Ostrava, Czech Republic, was made. It is now in Archeological Institute, Brno.
c. 22,000 BC: Neanderthals believed to have become extinct in Europe.
c. 22,000 BC: Last Glacial Maximum: Venus of Brassempouy, Grotte du Pape,
Brassempouy, Landes, France, was made. It is now at Musee des Antiquites Nationales,
St.-Germain-en-Laye.
c. 22,000 BC—21,000 BC: Venus of Willendorf, Austria, was made.
c. 20,000 BC: end of the second Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa.
Paleo-İndian life in Museum of Florida History.
c. 18,000 BC—15,000 BC: Last Glacial Maximum. Mean Sea Levels are believed
to be 110 to 120 meters (361 to 394 ft) lower than present,[10] with the direct implication
that many coastal and lower riverine valley archaeological sites of interest
are today under water.
c. 18,000 BC: Spotted Horses, Pech Merle cave, Dordogne, France are painted.
Discovered in December 1994.
c. 18,000 BC—11,000 BC: Ibex-headed spear thrower, from Le Mas d'Azil, Ariege,
France, is made. It is now at Musee de la Prehistoire, Le Mas d'Azil.
c. 18,000 BC—12,000 BC: Mammoth-bone village in Mezhirich, Ukraine is inhabited.
c. 17,000 BC: Spotted human hands, Pech Merle cave, Dordogne, France are painted.
Discovered in December 1994.
c. 17,000 BC—15,000 BC: Hall of Bulls, Lascaux caves, is painted. Discovered in 1940.
Closed to the public in 1963.
c. 17,000 BC—15,000 BC: Bird-Headed man with bison and Rhinoceros, Lascaux caves,
is painted.
c. 17,000 BC—15,000 BC: Lamp with ibex design, from La Mouthe cave, Dordogne, France,
is made. It is now at Musee des Antiquites Nationales, St.-Germain-en-Laye.
c. 16,500 BC: Paintings in Cosquer cave, where the cave mouth is now under water at
Cap Margiou, France were made.
c. 15,000 BC: Bison, Le Tuc d'Audoubert, Ariege, France.
16,000—12,000 BC
c. 15,000 BC-13,000 BC: Paleo-Indians move across North America, then southward
through Central America.
c. 15,000 BC-12,000 BC: Pregnant woman and deer (?), from Laugerie-Basse, France was made.
c. 14,000 BC: Paleo-Indians searched for big game near what is now the
Hovenweep National Monument.
c. 14,000 BC: Bison, on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain, is painted.
Discovered in 1879. Accepted as authentic in 1902.
c. 14,000 BC: Domestication of Reindeer.[11]
13,000 BC: Beginning of the Holocene extinction.
13,000 BC: earliest evidence of warfare
11,500 BC: Gὃbekli Tepe Carved stone hilltop sanctuary in southeastern Turkey.
11,500 BC—10,000 BC: Wooden buildings in South America (Chile), first pottery vessels (Japan).
11,000 BC: First evidence of human settlement in Argentina.
11,000 BC: The Arlington Springs Man dies on the island of Santa Rosa, off the coast of California.
11,000 BC: Human remains deposited in caves which are now located off the coast of Yucatán.
Largest time period genetic and rock dating traces
c. 50,000 BC: start of the Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa
43,000—41,000 At Ksar Akil in Lebanon, ornaments and skeletal remains of modern humans are dated to this period.
Cro Magnon appear in Europe, early cultural center in the
Swabian Alb, earliest figurative art (Venus of Schelklingen), beginning Aurignacian
35,000 BC Zar, Yataghyeri, Damjili and Taghlar caves in Azerbaijan.
32,000 BC Europeans understand how to harden clay figures by firing them
in an oven at high temperatures.
30,000 BC Reinvention of the bow and arrow.[9]
30,000 BC end of the Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa
Lion-Human, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany created.
29,000—25,000 BC: Venus of Dolní Věstonice. It is the oldest known ceramic in the world.
The Red Lady of Paviland lived around 29-26,000 years ago. Recent evidence has come
to light that he was a tribal chief.
28,020 BC - The Japanese, European, and Indian Calendar Began.
(The 4th Deca-millennium, 31st millennium, and 301st century began in 1980).
c. 28,000 BC: People start to live in Japan.
25,000 BC—17,000 BC: Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs,
Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardéche gorge, France, is made.
Discovered in December 1994.
c. 24,000 BC: start of the second Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa.
c. 23,000 BC: Venus of Petřkovice (Petřkovická venuše in Czech) from Petřkovice in
Ostrava, Czech Republic, was made. It is now in Archeological Institute, Brno.
c. 22,000 BC: Neanderthals believed to have become extinct in Europe.
c. 22,000 BC: Last Glacial Maximum: Venus of Brassempouy, Grotte du Pape,
Brassempouy, Landes, France, was made. It is now at Musee des Antiquites Nationales,
St.-Germain-en-Laye.
c. 22,000 BC—21,000 BC: Venus of Willendorf, Austria, was made.
c. 20,000 BC: end of the second Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa.
Paleo-İndian life in Museum of Florida History.
c. 18,000 BC—15,000 BC: Last Glacial Maximum. Mean Sea Levels are believed
to be 110 to 120 meters (361 to 394 ft) lower than present,[10] with the direct implication
that many coastal and lower riverine valley archaeological sites of interest
are today under water.
c. 18,000 BC: Spotted Horses, Pech Merle cave, Dordogne, France are painted.
Discovered in December 1994.
c. 18,000 BC—11,000 BC: Ibex-headed spear thrower, from Le Mas d'Azil, Ariege,
France, is made. It is now at Musee de la Prehistoire, Le Mas d'Azil.
c. 18,000 BC—12,000 BC: Mammoth-bone village in Mezhirich, Ukraine is inhabited.
c. 17,000 BC: Spotted human hands, Pech Merle cave, Dordogne, France are painted.
Discovered in December 1994.
c. 17,000 BC—15,000 BC: Hall of Bulls, Lascaux caves, is painted. Discovered in 1940.
Closed to the public in 1963.
c. 17,000 BC—15,000 BC: Bird-Headed man with bison and Rhinoceros, Lascaux caves,
is painted.
c. 17,000 BC—15,000 BC: Lamp with ibex design, from La Mouthe cave, Dordogne, France,
is made. It is now at Musee des Antiquites Nationales, St.-Germain-en-Laye.
c. 16,500 BC: Paintings in Cosquer cave, where the cave mouth is now under water at
Cap Margiou, France were made.
c. 15,000 BC: Bison, Le Tuc d'Audoubert, Ariege, France.
16,000—12,000 BC
c. 15,000 BC-13,000 BC: Paleo-Indians move across North America, then southward
through Central America.
c. 15,000 BC-12,000 BC: Pregnant woman and deer (?), from Laugerie-Basse, France was made.
c. 14,000 BC: Paleo-Indians searched for big game near what is now the
Hovenweep National Monument.
c. 14,000 BC: Bison, on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain, is painted.
Discovered in 1879. Accepted as authentic in 1902.
c. 14,000 BC: Domestication of Reindeer.[11]
13,000 BC: Beginning of the Holocene extinction.
13,000 BC: earliest evidence of warfare
11,500 BC: Gὃbekli Tepe Carved stone hilltop sanctuary in southeastern Turkey.
11,500 BC—10,000 BC: Wooden buildings in South America (Chile), first pottery vessels (Japan).
11,000 BC: First evidence of human settlement in Argentina.
11,000 BC: The Arlington Springs Man dies on the island of Santa Rosa, off the coast of California.
11,000 BC: Human remains deposited in caves which are now located off the coast of Yucatán.
Ancient History
Ok been doing some real crazy thing... i've been hooked on ancient history. you know... BC History.
Ok Ok Ok... the following isn't exactly in-depth stuff... i mean come on... i'd need to spend a few thousand years of my life to cover the 100,000 years before this so called "Son of God" era...
I started this off as just a simple list. a list of anything i can find out about who was who, who did what, and when this happened and most importantly who ELSE was doing what.
Understand?
probably not.
so, i have made a list of everything i could find out between 100,000 BC and 0 BC.
Not ... NOT... at a PHd level... you know... "Small era - in-Depth look" ... but more a "Large era - and a shallow Depth look"
So here goes...
PS... don't know exactly how long this will look... but... if you are interested.... i will start with 100,000 years BC.
Good Reading.
Ok Ok Ok... the following isn't exactly in-depth stuff... i mean come on... i'd need to spend a few thousand years of my life to cover the 100,000 years before this so called "Son of God" era...
I started this off as just a simple list. a list of anything i can find out about who was who, who did what, and when this happened and most importantly who ELSE was doing what.
Understand?
probably not.
so, i have made a list of everything i could find out between 100,000 BC and 0 BC.
Not ... NOT... at a PHd level... you know... "Small era - in-Depth look" ... but more a "Large era - and a shallow Depth look"
So here goes...
PS... don't know exactly how long this will look... but... if you are interested.... i will start with 100,000 years BC.
Good Reading.
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