Europe and surrounding areas in the 9th millennium BC. Blue areas are covered in ice. (1) Upper Palaeolithic cultures. (2) Mesolithic cultures. (3) Swiderian cultures. (4) Pontic Tardenosian cultures. (5) Iberian Capsian cultures. (6) Oranian cultures. (7) Lower Capsian cultures. (8) The Fertile Crescent.

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Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.

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Events

• Circa 9000 BC– Mediterranean - Settling on Mediterranean isles started
• Circa 8700 BC–8400 BC– Britain - Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by Maglemosian peoples
• Circa 8500 BC– Britain - Mesolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
• Circa 8350 BC– Middle East - Neolithic settlement at Jericho
• Circa 8300 BC– Britain - Nomadic hunters arrive in England
• Circa 8000 BC– Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
• Circa 8000 BC– Africa - Earliest recorded African stone engravings, in the Apollo 1 cave.

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Environmental changes

• Circa 8000 BC– World - Rising Sea
• Circa 8000 BC– Antarctica - long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
• Circa 8000 BC– Asia - rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
• Circa 8000 BC– World - Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time
• Circa 8000 BC– North America - The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.
• Circa 8000 BC– World - Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes place in several regions

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Inventions and discoveries

• Circa 8000 BC– Mesopotamia - Agriculture in Mesopotamia
• Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey
• Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Domestication of sheep and goats
• Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Evidence of domestication of dogs from wolves
• Circa 8000 BC– World - Alleged transatlantic trade in tobacco between Africa and South America
• Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies
• Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran
• Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods, a three-dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory system and medium of exchange
• Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology

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Cultural landmarks

• World - Total world population may be under 10 million