5th millennium BC
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).
Writing systems, such as ideographic Vinca script, Tartaria tablets (c. 5000 BC)
5000 BC, Metallurgy appears.
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.
Water buffalo are domesticated in China
Beer brewing is developed.
Wheel is developed in Mesopotamia and India
6th millennium BC
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.
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.
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)
7th millennium BC
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).
Gold and native copper begin to be used.
Middle East: Domestication of the cow.
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.
And many, MANY more!
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.
Potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America
Beginning of millet 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 material 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
^ an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau’s Historical Estimates of World Population
^ Roberts, J: “History of the World.”. Penguin, 1994.
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