6,700 BC to 5,000 BC
6,500 BC: The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk had rectangular rooms with windows, a design of lasting appeal.
~ 200 AD: USA: The San Diegito-Pinto tradition and Chihuahua tradition flourished in the southwest.
~ Ireland: Many Mesolithic sites on the Island dating to this time.
6,400 BC, Sun : Historical grand minima solar.
6,220 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima solar.
6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.
~ to 4,000 BC: Permanent settlement in N.A. accelerated for 2,000 years.
~ Chaldean texts discovered dating to this time. Found in the temple of Nippur, Mesopotamia
~ Opium used by people in lower Mesopotamia.
~ Ireland: Nemed there(?)
~ USA: Ancestors of Penutian-speaking people settle in the Northwestern Plateau.
~ Nomadic hunting bands roamed sub arctic Alaska following herds of caribou and other game animals.
~ Aleuts begin to arrive in the Alutian islands.
~ to 4,000 BC: North America: (Fagan) permanent settlements accelerated for 2,000 years.
15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less Mega-fauna.
5,900 BC: Cyprus: The neolithic town of Khirokitia had paved paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.
6,400 BC, Sun : Historical grand minima solar.
6,220 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima solar.
6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.
~ to 4,000 BC: Permanent settlement in N.A. accelerated for 2,000 years.
~ Chaldean texts discovered dating to this time. Found in the temple of Nippur, Mesopotamia
~ Opium used by people in lower Mesopotamia.
~ Ireland: Nemed there(?)
~ USA: Ancestors of Penutian-speaking people settle in the Northwestern Plateau.
~ Nomadic hunting bands roamed sub arctic Alaska following herds of caribou and other game animals.
~ Aleuts begin to arrive in the Alutian islands.
~ to 4,000 BC: North America: (Fagan) permanent settlements accelerated for 2,000 years.
15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less Mega-fauna.
5,900 BC: Cyprus: The neolithic town of Khirokitia had paved paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.
5,990 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima solar.
5,800 BC: Pottery if this date survived in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk. Fragments of woven cloth survived at the site because they were carbonized in a fire.
~ Human groups adapted to the conditions of what is now northern Canada and Greenland, living mainly as hunters of marine mammals.
5,800 BC: Pottery if this date survived in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk. Fragments of woven cloth survived at the site because they were carbonized in a fire.
~ Human groups adapted to the conditions of what is now northern Canada and Greenland, living mainly as hunters of marine mammals.
5,710 BC, Sun: Historical solar grand minima.
5,700 BC: U.S.A.: Cataclysmic eruption of Mount Mazama in what is now Oregon.
5,620 BC, Sun: Historical solar grand minima.
5,600 BC: Lebanon: From this date Lebanon is mentioned in the Sumerian tablets and in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It was the center of the Canaanite city states. Byblos kept records of dealing with Lebanon. The Bible contains references to Canaan Lebanon.
5,600 BC: Lebanon: From this date Lebanon is mentioned in the Sumerian tablets and in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It was the center of the Canaanite city states. Byblos kept records of dealing with Lebanon. The Bible contains references to Canaan Lebanon.
5,500 BC, Ireland: Before this time Mesolithic builders were building with stone inthe Boyne Valley.
5,500 BC, US: About this time natives of the Pacific northwest began to rely on salmon runs.
5,400 BC to 500 BC: Lifespan of the state of Eridu. The city of Eridu was founded earlier and has been called Sumeria's first city.
5,300 BC: Dated stone tablet with pictographic writing found in Kish, Mesopotamia.
~ Irrigation farming began in the Fertile Crescent began prior to this date.
~ to 500 AD: Native Americans took native copper to make tools, weapons, and art in what is now the northwest of the Great Lakes region of N.A. After 5,000 BC the Old Copper Culture traded widely.
15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less Mega-fauna.
~ Irrigation farming began in the Fertile Crescent began prior to this date.
~ to 500 AD: Native Americans took native copper to make tools, weapons, and art in what is now the northwest of the Great Lakes region of N.A. After 5,000 BC the Old Copper Culture traded widely.
15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less Mega-fauna.
5,000 BC: Opium used by people in lower Mesopotamia.
~ Squash and chile cultivated in the Tehuacan valley of what is now modern Mexico may be the first plants cultivated in the Americas.
~ Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man mad burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in birchbark and dugout canoes.
~ Fagan informs us that in North America basketry and netting is used as well as a wide variety of stone tools. People ate a varied diet of plants and animals. Hickory nuts appear to have been vital and acorns were eaten.
~ The Maritime Archaic Period begins at this time and continues into the 18th century in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, northern New England and beyond. It can be associated with Red Ocher tradition including burials. It may reach northern Europe.
~ Maritime Archaic culture people practiced codfish and swordfish deep sea fishing 7,000 years ago. They engaged in long distance trade of white chert, hunted sea mammals in subarctic areas, had long house settlements and used boat topped temporary housing,
~ Hypsithermal Interval: a warming period within the Holocene Epoch.
~ Squash and chile cultivated in the Tehuacan valley of what is now modern Mexico may be the first plants cultivated in the Americas.
~ Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man mad burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in birchbark and dugout canoes.
~ Fagan informs us that in North America basketry and netting is used as well as a wide variety of stone tools. People ate a varied diet of plants and animals. Hickory nuts appear to have been vital and acorns were eaten.
~ The Maritime Archaic Period begins at this time and continues into the 18th century in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, northern New England and beyond. It can be associated with Red Ocher tradition including burials. It may reach northern Europe.
~ Maritime Archaic culture people practiced codfish and swordfish deep sea fishing 7,000 years ago. They engaged in long distance trade of white chert, hunted sea mammals in subarctic areas, had long house settlements and used boat topped temporary housing,
~ Hypsithermal Interval: a warming period within the Holocene Epoch.
~ 6th century, Ireland: There was probably a significant comet event. Is there evidence for Scotts leaving Ireland about that time?