Europe and surrounding areas in the 9th millennium BC. Blue areas are covered in ice. (1) Upper Palaeolithic cultures. (2) Mesolithic cultures. (3) Swiderian cultures. (4) Pontic Tardenoisian cultures. (5) Iberian Capsian cultures. (6) Oranian cultures. (7) Lower Capsian cultures. (8) The Fertile Crescent.
Agriculture spread throughout the Fertile Crescent and use of potterybecame more widespread. Larger settlements like Jericho arose along saltand flint trade routes. Northern Eurasia was resettled as the glaciers of thelast glacial maximum retreated. World population was at a few million people, likely below 5 million.
- c. 9000 BC—The first evidence of the keeping of sheep, in northern Iraq.[2]
- c. 9000 BC—Discovery of Copper in Middle East
- c. 8500 BC—Natufian culture of Western Mesopotamia is harvesting wild wheat with flint-edged sickles. (1967 McEvedy) About this time, boats are invented, and dogs domesticated in Europe. (1967 McEvedy)
- c. 8500 BC—Andean peoples domesticate chili peppers and two kinds of bean.
- c. 8000 BC—Mesopotamia—Agriculture in Mesopotamia
- c. 8000 BC—Asia—Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey
- c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Domestication of goats
- c. 8000 BC—Asia—Evidence of domestication of dogs from wolves
- c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies
- c. 8000 BC—Middle East—Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran.
- c. 8000 BC—People of Jericho were making bricks out of clay, then hardened them in the sun. The settlement had grown to 8–10 acres of houses and had substantial walls.[2]
9,000 B.C. - Atlantis Disaster? - "Traditional date when the continent of Atlantis sank beneath the waves. Researchers probing the ocean bottom have found 18-story-high towers of stone deep in the ocean near a section of volcanic fault ridges that extend for 6,200 miles along the Atlantic Ocean floor." [Links: 1, 2]9,000 B.C. - Jericho Settlement - "This city, located near a permanent spring a few miles west of the Jordan River was excavated by Kathleen Kenyon. There were indications of settlement after 9,000 B.C. This settlement grew to city status by 7,000 B.C. and is perhaps the oldest continuously occupied city on Earth."9,000 B.C. - Tools / North America - "The Wenachee site, dated to 11,000 B.P. and located in the Inner Columbia River Basin, presents evidence of a new assemblage of stone tools in the Americas at their earliest known horizon." [Links: 1 - # 5]9,000 B.C. - Lunar Calendar / Uganda - "The Ishango bone from modern Uganda in equatorial east Africa was identified by Marshak as a Lunar Calendar, dated about 9,000 B.C."9,000 B.C. - Wheat Cultivation / Turkey - "The wild progenitor of einkorn wheat, one of the first crops to be domesticated (ca. 9000 B.C.), has been identified genetically in southeastern Turkey, according to a report in the journal Science. Manfred Heun of the Agricultural University of Norway, along with Norwegian, German, and Italian colleagues, examined the DNA of 68 lines of cultivated einkorn (Triticum monococcum monococcum), 194 lines of wild einkorn (T. m. boeoticum) from nine geographical regions within the Fertile Crescent, and nine lines of a weedy einkorn (T. m. aegilopoides) found in the Balkans."9,000 B.C. - Wooly Mammoth Extinction - "The wooly mammoth became extinct about 11,000 years ago."9,000 B.C. - Fig Cultivation / Middle East - "[....] In the Middle East, figs were domesticated 11,400 years ago. Wheat wasn't far behind. In the New World, corn was being cultivated 9,000 years ago. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article (Fossils show ancient use of chili peppers [about 6,100 years ago]), p. A3, S.L.P.D., 02/16/07]9,000 B.C. - Human Habitation / Denmark - "The finest record [9,000 B.C. - 4,000 B.C.] of Mesolithic and Neolithic peoples exists in Denmark, due to the country's numerous bogs."8,810 B.C. - Equinox at Cancer - About this time, the Vernal Equinox was (reportedly) at Cancer.
8,800 B.C. - Settlement? / Cyprus - "[....] Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, is thought to have been first settled around 8,800 B.C., according to the British Museum. [....]" [Based on: Archaeologynews.org article: (Cyprus Digs Reveal First Settlements May Be Older Than Thought) by Paul Tugwell - Last Updated: July 22, 2009 07:33 EDT]http://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=472030&Title=Cyprus Digs Reveal First Settlements May Be Older Than Thought
8,600 B.C. - Trivia / Irish Elk - "Until this time, Irish Elk [Megaloceros giganteus] lived in temperate climates throughout Europe and western Asia."
