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Encyclopedia > 4240 BC

(6th millennium BC5th millennium BC4th millennium BCother millennia)


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  • c. 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the Nile
  • c. 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile

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3000bc (5257 words)
BP (6000-4000 BC) at which time the temperature is warming culminating in an era warmer than present, when equatorial weather patterns may have reached farther north than at present, and the westerly storms of the north would have been confined to latitudes higher than at present.
At about 3500 BC the lower Tigris and Euphrates alluvial plain was under extreme pressure from both rapidly rising sea and buildup of the Karun delta.
The 3199 BC value is associated with an acidity peak in Camp Century ice cores dated at 3150 B,c demonstrating unquestionably that adverse weather conditions, probably due either to volcanic eruption or meteoric impact, occurred at this time.
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