During the , 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.
, current-day Baluchistan , Pakistan , c. 7000 BCE , with houses built with mud bricks. ( Musée Guimet , Paris).]]
- — First neolithic settlements with ceramics, in Crete , Aegean Sea — Greece .
- — Beginning of the Peiligang Culture in China .
- — Agriculture and neolithic settlement at Mehrgarh , in current-day Baluchistan , Pakistan .
- – 600 BC — Elam .
- — Elam becomes Farming region.
- – 6000 BC — Figure from Ain Ghazal , Jordan , was made. It is now in National Museum , Amman , Jordan .
- c. 7000 BC — Paleolithic period ended. Neolithic period started.
- — Advanced agriculture and a very early use of pottery by the Sesclo culture in Thessaly , Greece .
- — Beginning of the Houli Culture in China.
- – 5500 BC — Çatalhöyük , Turkey . Inhabitants traded Obsidian . c. 5000 inhabitants.
- — Beginning of the Xinglongwa Culture in China.
- — Beginning of the Cishan Culture in China.
- — First traces of habitation of the Svarthola cave in Norway .
- — 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)
- — English Channel formedRoberts, J: "History of the World." Penguin, 1994.
- — Neolithic Subpluvial begins in northern Africa
- — Kurile volcano on Russia 's Kamchatka Peninsula has VEI 7 eruption. It is one of the largest of the Holocene epoch
- — The Storegga Slide , causing a Megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea
- — Rising sea levels form the Torres Strait , separating Australia from New Guinea
- — 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.
- — Mesolithic site Lepenski Vir emerges in today's Serbia .
- — Earliest Pottery in Ancient Near East .
- — Elam became farming region.
- — Chinese Domestication of Rice , Millet , Soy Beans , and Yams . (1990 Rand McNally Atlas)
- — Red Pepper , Bottle Gourd , Avocados , and Squash cultivated on Pacific Coast of Guatemala . (Bailey 1973)
- — Naalebinding , a form of Knitting , used in Judean Desert (modern day Israel ).
- — Wall painting/map from Çatalhöyük , an early-civilized city that prospered by trading obsidian, Anatolia — modern Turkey .
- — Two breeds of non-wolf Dogs in Scandinavia. Domestic Pigs appear at Jarmo . Domestic Cattle in Turkey .
- — Ban Po settlement in China .
- — 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 Cereal s (East Sahara ).( )
- Gold and native Copper begin to be used.( )(where?)
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- Archaic Pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology ( North America ).
- begin using stone to grind food and to hunt American Bison and smaller animals.
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- is cooled by 36–°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 Crocodile s Australia .
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