Cultures
| The Neolithic |
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| ↑ Mesolithic |
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farming, animal husbandry |
| ↓ Chalcolithic |
- Mesopotamia
- Uruk period (protohistoric Sumer) 4100–3100 BC
- Proto-Elamite from 3200 BC
- Urkesh (northern Syria) founded during the fourth millennium BC possibly by the Hurrians
- Neolithic Europe and Western Eurasia
- Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization.
- The Yamna culture ("Kurgan culture"), succeeding the Sredny Stog culture is the locus of the Proto-Indo-Europeans according to the Kurgan hypothesis
- The Pit Grave ("Kurgan culture"), succeeding the Sredny Stog culture is the locus of the Turkic peoples according to the Paleolithic Continuity Theory
- The Maykop culture of the Caucasus, contemporary to the Kurgan culture, is a candidate for the origin of bronze production and thus the Bronze Age.
- Vinca culture
- Afanasevo 3500—2500 BC, Siberia, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan - late copper and early Bronze Age.
- Yamna/Kurgan 3500-2300 BC, Pontic-Caspian (east of Black Sea).
- Kura-Araxes 3400–2000 BC - earliest evidence found on the Ararat plain
- Europe
- The Trypillian culture has cities with 15,000 citizens, eastern Europe, 5500–2750 BC.
- The Funnelbeaker culture, Scandinavia, 4000–2700 BC, originated in southern parts of Europe and slowly advanced up through today's Uppland.
- Indian subcontinent
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Mehrgarh III–VI
- Africa
- Naqada culture on the Nile, 4000–3000 BC. First hieroglyphs appear thus far around 3500 BC as found on labels in a ruler's tomb at Abydos.
- Asia
- Neolithic Chinese settlements. They produced silk and pottery (chiefly the Yangshao and the Lungshan cultures), wore hemp clothing, and domesticated pigs and dogs.
- Vietnamese Bronze Age culture. The Đồng Đậu Culture, 4000–2500 BC, produced many wealthy bronze objects.
- c. 4000–3000 BC—Austronesian peoples reach Formosa (Taiwan) having crossed 150 km from China using advanced maritime technology.
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