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9th millennium BC

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Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.
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Events

  • Circa 9000 BC–Settling on Mediterranean isles started
  • Circa 8700 BC–8400 BC–Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by Maglemosian peoples
  • Circa 8500 BC–Neolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
  • Circa 8350 BC–Neolithic settlement at Jericho
  • Circa 8300 BC–Nomadic hunters arrive in England
  • Circa 8000 BC–Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
  • Circa 8000 BC– Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt was taking place in several regions of the World
  • Circa 8000 BC– Long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing Antarctica
  • Circa 8000 BC– Ice free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago Antarctica
  • Circa 8000 BC– Apollo 1 cave -earliest recorded African stone engravings. Africa
  • Circa 8000 BC– Rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming Asia Japan

Environmental changes

  • Circa 8000 BC– World : Rising Sea
  • Circa 8000 BC– World - Cometary showers coincide with a close passage of Venus
  • Circa 8000 BC– Antartica - long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
  • Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Japan: rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
  • Circa 8000 BC– Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time North America Asia Australia
  • Circa 8000 BC– N America, glacial Decline, The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.
  • Circa 8000 BC– Atlantis: Is it only a coincidence that Plato will later speak of Atlantis existing prior to this time Plato
  • Circa 8000 BC– Antartica - long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
  • Circa 8000 BC– World - Cometary showers coincide with a close passage of Venus

Inventions and discoveries

  • Circa 8000 BC– Aancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies Asia Iran
  • Circa 8000 BC– Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran Asia
  • Circa 8000 BC– Invention of the bow and arrow
  • Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods, a three dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory system and medium of exchange
  • Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology

Cultural landmarks

Humanity officially enters the Stone Age Total world population may be under 10 million

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