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During the 7th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from Anatolia to the Balkans. World population is essentially stable at around 5 million people, living mostly widely scattered across the globe in small hunting-gathering tribes. In the agricultural communities of the Middle East, the cow is domesticated and use of pottery grows common, spreading to Europe and South Asia, and the first metal (gold and copper) ornaments are made. These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ...
In the 8th millennium BC, agriculture becomes widely practiced in the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia. ...
During the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe and from Mesopotamia to Egypt. ...
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Map of countries by population âshowing the population of the Peoples Republic of China and India, the only two countries to have a population greater than a billion. ...
This box: A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, using foraging and hunting, without significant recourse to the domestication of either. ...
COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ...
Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...
Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily loses electrons to form positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds between metal atoms. ...
Cultures
Excavations at the South Area of Çatal Höyük Download high resolution version (1544x1024, 211 KB)my own photo of the South Area of Çatalhöyük File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Download high resolution version (1544x1024, 211 KB)my own photo of the South Area of Çatalhöyük File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
For the famous World War II battle, see: Battle of Crete For other uses, see Crete (disambiguation). ...
The Peiligang culture (裴æå´æå) is a name given by archaeologists to a group of Neolithic communities who lived in the Yiluo river valley in Henan Province, China. ...
Mehrgarh was an ancient settlement in South Asia and is one of the most important sites in archaeology for the study of the earliest neolithic settlements in that region. ...
This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. ...
Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC - 600s BC - 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC 560s BC 550s BC Events and Trends Fall of the Assyrian Empire and Rise of Babylon 609 BC _ King Josiah...
Elam (Persian: تÙ
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(7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – other millennia) Events c. ...
General Layout of Ain Ghazal, © 1996 Smithsonian Institution Ain Ghazal is a neolithic site located in North-Eastern Jordan, on the outskirts of Amman. ...
A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation. ...
For other meanings, see Amman (disambiguation) and Ammann. ...
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (Greek ÏαλαιÏÏ paleos=old and Î»Î¯Î¸Î¿Ï lithos=stone or the Old Stone Age) was the first period in the development of human technology of the Stone Age. ...
An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools. ...
Sesklo (Sesclo, Greek: ΣÎÏκλο) was a village nearby the city of Volos, in Thessaly (central Greece), in the prefecture of Magnesia. ...
Map showing Thessaly periphery in Greece Thessaly (ÎεÏÏαλια; modern Greek ThessalÃa; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 prefectures. ...
(7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – other millennia) Events c. ...
Excavations at the South Area of Ãatal Höyük Ãatalhöyük (also Ãatal Höyük and Ãatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics; çatal is Turkish for fork, höyük for mound) was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern...
Obsidian from Lake County, Oregon Counterclockwise from top: obsidian, pumice and rhyolite (light color) Obsidian is a rock which is a type of naturally occurring glass, produced by volcanoes (igneous origin) when a felsic lava cools rapidly and freezes without sufficient time for crystal growth (see glass transition temperature). ...
The cave Svarthola (aka. ...
Environmental changes - 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. 6500 BC - English Channel formed
- 6440 BC ± 25 years - Kurile volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has VEI 7 eruption. It is one of the largest of the Holocene epoch.
- 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 5,000 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.
Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: (IPA: ), the sleeve) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
Kurile Lake is a large caldera located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. ...
Kamchatka is the home of many volcanoes. ...
VEI and ejecta volume correlation The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) was devised by Chris Newhall of the U.S. Geological Survey and Steve Self at the University of Hawaii in 1982 to provide a relative measure of the explosiveness of volcanic eruptions. ...
The Holocene epoch is a geological period that extends from the present day back to about 10,000 radiocarbon years, approximately 11,430 ± 130 calendar years BP (between 9560 and 9300 BC). ...
The three Storegga Slides count among the largest recorded landslides. ...
Megatsunami (often hyphenated as mega-tsunami, also known as iminami or wave of purification) is an informal term used mostly by popular media and popular scientific societies to describe a very large tsunami wave beyond the size reached by typical tsunamis (around 10 metres). ...
The Norwegian Sea (Norwegian: Norskehavet) is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea (i. ...
The Torres Strait - Cape York Peninsula is at the top; several of the Torres Strait Islands can be seen strung out towards Papua New Guinea (North is downwards in this image) The Torres Strait is a body of water which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. ...
Inventions, discoveries, introductions - 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. 6500 BC - Naalebinding, a form of knitting, used in Judean Desert (modern day Israel).
- c. 6000 BC - Wall painting/map from Çatalhöyük, an early-civilized city that prospered by trading obsidian, Anatolia -- modern Turkey.
- c. 6500 - Two breeds of non-wolf dogs in Scandinavia. Domestic pigs appear at Jarmo. Domestic cattle in Turkey.
- 6000 BC - Ban Po settlement in China.
- 6000 BC - Jericho settlement in the Levant.
- 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])(where?)
- Middle East: Domestication of the cow.([citation needed])
- Archaic pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology (North America).
- 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. ([citation needed])
- North America: Better (name?) toolkits in use by 6000 BC..
- 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 Australia.
Millennia | 11th and beyond | 10th | 9th | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st 1st BC | 2nd BC | 3rd BC | 4th BC | 5th BC | 6th BC | 7th BC | 8th BC | 9th BC | 10th BC Lepenski Vir is an important Mesolithic archaeological site located in Serbia in the central Balkan peninsula. ...
Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian written with the Cyrillic alphabet1 Government Parliamentary republic - President Boris TadiÄ - Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment - Formation 8th century - Independence c. ...
Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...
Overview map of the Ancient Near East The term Ancient Near East or Ancient Orient encompasses the early civilizations predating Classical Antiquity in the region roughly corresponding to that described by the modern term Middle East (Egypt, Iraq, Turkey), during the time roughly spanning the Bronze Age from the rise...
Elam (Persian: تÙ
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) is one of the oldest recorded civilizations. ...
Dogs and sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated. ...
Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa The planting of rice is often a labour-intensive process Terrace of rice paddies in Yunnan Province, southern China. ...
Pearl millet in the field The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. ...
Binomial name Glycine max Merr. ...
For the Levantine god of the untamed sea, see Yaw. ...
Red pepper may refer to: Capsicum, whose fruit is used as a vegetable or spice Red Pepper (newspaper), in Uganda Red Pepper (magazine), in the United Kingdom Red pepper (newspaper style magazine), a United States satire publication Red Pepper (acappella group), Australian rock/acappella group active in the early 90...
The calabash (Lagenaria siceraria) is a vine-based plant that produces a fruit that resembles either a bottle, utencil, or pipe. ...
Binomial name Persea americana Mill. ...
Look up squash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The Pacific Coast is any coast fronting the Pacific Ocean. ...
Naalebinding or NÃ¥lebinding (from Danish, literally binding with a needle or needle-binding) is a fabric creation technique. ...
Knit hat, yarn, and knitting needles For the record label, see Knitting Factory. ...
Desert hills in southern Judea, looking east from the town of Arad Judea or Judaea (יהודה Praise, Standard Hebrew Yəhuda, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhûḏāh) is a term used for the mountainous southern part of historic Palestine, an area now divided...
Excavations at the South Area of Ãatal Höyük Ãatalhöyük (also Ãatal Höyük and Ãatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics; çatal is Turkish for fork, höyük for mound) was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern...
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Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog is a mammal in the order Carnivora. ...
Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 The domestic pig is usually given the scientific name Sus scrofa, though some authors call it , reserving for the wild boar. ...
Jarmo (Qalat Jarmo) is an archeological site located in northern Iraq on the foothills of Zagros Mountains east of Kirkuk city. ...
Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ...
The Taking of Jericho, by Jean Fouquet Near central Jericho, November 1996 Jericho (Hebrew , Arabic , ʼArīḥÄ; Standard YÉriḥo Tiberian YÉrîḫô / YÉrîḥô; meaning fragrant[1]. Greek ἹεÏιÏÏ) is a town in the West Bank, located within the Jericho Governorate, near the Jordan River. ...
The Levant The Levant (IPA: /lÉvænt/) is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ...
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Some archaeologists and ethnographers use the term Old Europe to characterize the autochthonous (aboriginal) peoples who were living in Neolithic southeastern Europe before the immigration of Indo-European peoples (for this reason also called Pre-Indo-European). ...
Beekeeping, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century) Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a bee) is the practice of intentional maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. ...
For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ...
This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Location Coordinates : 39°29ⲠN 0°22ⲠW Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name València (Catalan) Spanish name Valencia Founded 137 BC Postal code 46000-46080 Website http://www. ...
Pastoralism is a form of farming, such as agriculture and horticulture. ...
This article is about cereals in general. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic pinkish red Standard atomic weight 63. ...
A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ...
Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
A Hupa man. ...
Binomial name Bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies B. b. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...
Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ...
A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ...
For other uses, see Crocodile (disambiguation). ...
The 11th millennium and beyond is a period of time which will begin on 1 January, 10,001. ...
(9th millennium â 10th millennium â 11th millennium and beyond â other millennia) The tenth millennium is a period of time which will begin on January 1, 9001 and will end on December 31, 10000. ...
The 9th millennium is a period of time which will begin on January 1, 8001 and will end on December 31, 9000. ...
(7th millennium â 8th millennium â 9th millennium â other millennia) The eighth millennium is a period of time which begins on January 1, 7001 and will end on December 31, 8000. ...
The 7th millennium is a period of time which will begin on January 1 6001 and will end on December 31 7000. ...
(5th millennium â 6th millennium â 7th millennium â other millennia) The sixth millennium is a period of time which will begin on January 1, 5001 and will end on December 31, 6000. ...
The fifth millennium is a period of time which will begin on 1 January 4001 and will end on 31 December 5000. ...
The fourth millennium is a period of time which will begin on 1 January 3001 and will end on 31 December 4000. ...
The third millennium (so called because it is the third period of 1000 years in the Common Era) is a period of time which began on (depending on your beliefs) 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 3000 or 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2999. ...
In the Gregorian calendar, the 2nd millennium commenced on 1 January 1001, and ended at the end of 31 December 2000. ...
In the Gregorian calendar, the 1st millennium is the period of one thousand years that commenced with the year 1 Anno Domini. ...
The 1st millennium BC encompasses the Iron Age and sees the rise of successive empires. ...
The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. ...
The 3rd millennium BC spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age. ...
(5th millennium BC â 4th millennium BC â 3rd millennium BC - other millennia) // Events Sumerian city of Ur in Mesopotamia (40th century BC); Sumerian hegemony in Mesopotamia, with the invention of writing, base-60 mathematics, astronomy and astrology, civil law, complex hydrology, the sailboat, the wheel, and the potters wheel, 4000...
// Events 4860 BC - Mount Mazama in Oregon collapses, forming a caldera that later fills with water and becomes Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States. ...
During the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe and from Mesopotamia to Egypt. ...
In the 8th millennium BC, agriculture becomes widely practiced in the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia. ...
Europe and surrounding areas in the 9th millennium BC. Blue areas are covered in ice. ...
See 1 E11 s for more remote dates. ...
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