7th Millennium Bc

EVENTS

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

Circa 6000 BC – Rising sea levels form the Torres Strait , separating Australia from New Guinea .

Circa 6000 BC – Between 12,000 BC and 5,000 BC it appears that massive inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt was taking place in several regions of the world, making for subsequent sea level rises which could be relatively abrupt for many worldwide.

INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, INTRODUCTIONS

Circa 6000 BC – Wall painting/map from Çatalhöyük , an early-civilized city that prospered by trading obsidian, Anatolia -- modern Turkey .

Agriculture appears around the Mediterranean ( Greece , Italy ), 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 .

Archaic pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology ( North America ).

Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas begin using stone to grind food and to hunt American Bison and smaller animals ( North America ).

Northern Atlantic Ocean is cooled by 3-6°C due to collapsing ice dams releasing enormous floods ( North America ).

Peru , Guitarrero Cave, plant fibers are twisted, knotted, and looped into baskets, mats ( South America ).

Animal figures of Estuarine-period rock painting in Australia include saltwater Fish and Crocodile s Australia .

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