6,700 BC: to 5,000 BC:
6,500 BC to 200 AD: The San Diegito-Pinto tradition and Chihuahua tradition flourished in the southwest o6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.
~ The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design with lasting appeal.
6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.
6,220 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.
6,200 BC: Climate cooling event was in process.
6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.
6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.
~ Opium used by people in Lower Mesopotamia.
~ Chaldean texts discovered dating to this time. They were found in the temple of Nippur, Mesopotamia.
~ 6,000 BC to 4000 BC: Permanent settlement in North America accelerated for 2,000 years (Fagan)
~ to 5,000 BC: The end of global de-glaciation which followed the last Global Maximum
~ to 5,000 BC: Sea level rose about 100 meters.
~ Nemed in Ireland, it has been said.
~ Middle Holocene
~ to 4,000 BC: Permanent settlement in North America accelerated for 2,000 years. (Fagan)
~ Ancestors of Penutian-speaking peoples settled in the northwestern plateau of what is now the US.
~ Nomadic hunting bands roamed subarctic Alaska following herds of caribou and other game animals.
~ Aleuts began to arrive in the Aleutian Islands.
~ to 4,000 BC: An acceleration of permanent settlements in N.A. lasted for 2,000 years.
5,900 BC: The Neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus had a paved street public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.
5,990 BC: Historical solar grand minima.
5,980 BC: Grapes used for wine making.
5,900 BC: Humans were settled in Malta.
5,900 BC: The Neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus had a paved street public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.
5,800 BC, Turkey: Pottery of this date survived in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk. Fragments of cloth survive because they are carbonized in a fire.
~ North America: Human group adapt to conditions of northern Canada and then Greenland.
5,700 BC, North America: Cataclysmic eruption of Mount Mazama in what is now Oregon, USA.
5,600 BC, Lebanon: From this date Lebanon is mentioned in 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: Evidence of cheese making in Poland.
~ In 1975 AD at artificial mound in Labrador, Fidel found a bird bone whistle along with socketed bone points and much more. In that same year a body was found in the mound face down. Walrus tusk and large quartzite knives were also found in the same mound dated to this time.
~ to 500 AD, North America: Oshara Tradition, a Southwest Archaic Tradition, arises in north-central Mexico, the san Juan Basin, the Rio Grand Valley in Southern Colorado, and southeastern Utah, US.
5,450 BC: Carbon 14 content in tree ring seem to be due to above normal solar activity.
5,400 BC: The city of Eridu founded and called Sumeria's first city. It did not end until about 500 BC. The state of Eridu was started. It ended about 500 BC. The city of Eridu founded and called Sumatra's first city.
5,300 BC: Dated stone tablet with pictographic writing, found in Kish, Mesopotamia.
~ Irrigation farming in Fertile Crescent prior to this date.
~ to 500 AD: Native Americans took native copper to make tools, weapons, and art in what is now north west Great Lakes region. From the earliest days, the Old Copper Culture traded widely.
~ Shortly after this date Sumerians were active.
5,200 BC: First recorded pottery in Finland starts with Comb Ceramic culture.
5,000 BC: After this date the Sumerians were making their mark in the Fertile Crescent and greatly affecting the Akkadians and Egyptians.
~ Irrigation farming began in the fertile crescent prior to this date.
~ Girsi began as a Copper Age state about this time and ended about 2,100 BC.
~ Village and farm communities existed along the Hwang-ho in China.
~ to 4,000 BC: Near East: Painted pottery made on slow wheels. More and more massive mud-brick temples were constructed at the site of Eridu.
~ North America: Kame grave users north of the Ohio river were transitioning to man-made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in in birch-bark and dugout canoes and making beads of native copper.
~ The state of Bad-tibira was started and ended about 2,300 BC.
~ Mari started as a copper using state and ended in 1759 BC.
~ Cultivation of food crops began in Mesopotamia.
~ Native Americans in the Pacific northwest from Alaska to California develop a fishing economy, salmon as a staple. They also worked and traded large circular copper objects.
~ to about 500 AD North America: The Old Copper Culture of the Great Lakes area hammers the metal into various tools. ornaments, etc. Native Americans took native copper to make art, weapons, and tools in the Great Lakes region. This Old Copper Culture traded widely. Copper smelted around Isle Royal on Lake Michigan!! Copper was mined at this time. Rich native copper was probably collected there even earlier. On Isle Royal a pictograph of a ship which looks very capable of a sea voyage has been found and recorded.
~ Nasty, near devastating, traumatic events occur around this time!!!!!!!!
~ North America: Squash and chile are the first plants cultivated in NA. They were cultivated in Tehuacan valley of what is now Mexico.
~ Fomorians in and around Ireland~.
~ to 3,00o BC, North America: There was a 2,000 year decline in population (Fagan)
~ Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia.
5,000 BC: Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in birch-bark and dugout canoes and making beads of native copper.
~ Irrigation farming began in the Fertile Crescent prior to this date.
~ North America: Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man-made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in dugout and birchbark canoes, and making beads of native copper.
~ North America: Increase in mean annual temperature and decrease in rainfall in the Mississippi valley.
~ Ireland: Evidence of land clearance for agriculture has been found for this date in the southwest of the island.
~ to 4000 BC: Painted pottery made on slow wheels. More and more mud brick temples constructed at the site of Eridu.
~ China: Village farm communities along the Wang-ho River are in evidence.
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5,000 BC: Or 7,000 BP, may be the time of the flood Noah informs us of. Pretty recent as these things go. There does seem to have been a nasty event around this time.
~ to 2,300 BC: Duration of the state of Bad-tibira.
~ to 1,759 BC: Mari lasted as a copper using state.
~ to 2,100 BC: Girsi began as a Copper Age state and ended.
~ North American peoples made and used basketry and netting as well as a variety of stone tools. Ate a variety of plants and animals. Ate some acorn. Hickory nuts seemed vital where available.
~ Maritime Archaic Period (and lasts until the 18th ? century)in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, northern New England, and more. Has been associated with Red Ocher cultural burials.
~ Maritime Archaic culture people practiced deep sea fishing of codfish, swordfish 7000 years ago. They hunted sea mammals in subarctic areas. They engaged in long distance trade of white chert. Had longhouse settlements and used boat-topped temporary housing.
~ to 2,500 BC: Hypsithermal Interval, a warming period within the Holocene epoch.
~ to 2450 BC: Nippur also began as a Copper Age state at about this time.
~ Sri Lanka: There is substantial evidence that the island had a land link to India at this time.
~ to about 3200 BC, Egypt: Predynastic Upper Egypt began as a Copper Age state and came to an end as noted above.
~ North America: This date marks the Mid-Archaic period on the continent.
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