Events
| The Stone Age |
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↑ before Homo (Pliocene) |
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Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
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| ↓ Chalcolithic |
- c. 8000 BC—The last glacial period ends.
- c. 8000 BC—Upper Paleolithic period ends.
- c. 8000 BC—7000 BC—Paleolithic–Neolithic overlap (Mesolithic).
- c. 8000 BC—2300 BC—Neolithic period.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlement in Franchthi Cave in Peloponnese, continues. First evidence of seed and animal stocking (lentils, almonds) and obsidian trade with Melos. The settlement was continuously occupied since 20,000 BC and abandoned in 3000 BC.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest Turkey are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker in present-day Buskerud, Norway are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Ærø, Denmark are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Deepcar near present-day Sheffield, England are established.
- c. 8000 BC—North American Arctic is inhabited by hunter-gatherers of the Paleo-Arctic Tradition.
- c. 8000 BC—Pre-Anasazi Paleo-Indians move into present-day Southwest United States.
- c. 8000 BC—Plano cultures inhabit the Great Plains area of North America (from 9th millennium)
- c. 8000 BC—World population: 5,000,000
- c. 7500 BC—Settlements at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross, Scotland are constructed.
- c. 7500 BC—Çatalhöyük, a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, is founded.
- c. 7500 BC—Cattle Period begins in the Sahara.
- c. 7500 BC—Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are the first humans to reach Ireland.
- c. 7370 BC—End of the large settlement at Jericho.
- c. 7200–5000 BC—Ain Ghazal, Jordan is inhabited. 30 acres (120,000 m2).
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