3rd Millennium BC - Cultures

Cultures

  • c. 3000 BC Nubian A-Group Culture comes to an end
  • c. 3000 BC—Cycladic culture started in Ancient Greece.
  • c. 3000 BC—Minoan culture appeared on Crete.
  • c. 3000 BC—Helladic period started in mainland Ancient Greece.
  • Old Elamite period (ca. 2700 BC – 1600 BC).
  • c. 2300 BC Nubian C-Group culture
  • Corded Ware culture (also Battle-axe culture, or Single Grave culture).
  • Norte Chico civilization.
  • Late Maikop culture.
  • Late Vinca culture.
  • Butmir culture.
  • Late Funnelbeaker culture.
  • Baden culture.
  • Globular Amphora culture.
  • Early Beaker culture.
  • Yamna culture, Catacomb culture, likely loci of Indo-European Satemization.
  • The Sintashta-Petrovka-Arkaim culture emerges from the Catacomb culture from about 2200 BC, likely locus of Proto-Indo-Iranian.
  • c 2500 BC Austronesian peoples from Formosa have colonised Luzon in northern Philippines

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