- c. 6000 BC: The Mehrgarh culture reaches its height c. 6000 BC. The Mehrgarh site is one of the most important Neolithic sites in the world. It is located in present-day Pakistan (Baluchistan Province).
- c. 6000 BC: warm period also known as the Atlantic period. high sea levels. (McEvedy)
- c. 6000 BC: Records of the Mosyllonian civilization in Somalia
- c. 6000 BC: First use of copper in Middle East. (Bailey 1973)
- c. 6000 BC: Equids disappear from the Americas.
- c. 6000 BC: Junglefowl kept in India.
- c. 6000 BC: Female figurines holding serpents are fashioned on Crete
- c. 5900 BC: Prehistoric Vinca culture emerges on the shores of lower Danube.
- c. 5800 BC: Beginning of the Dadiwan culture in China.
- c. 5800 BC: The Hassuna Period in Mesopotamia <t. 5500 BC>, with the earliest version of stamp seals.
- c. 5677 BC: Mount Mazama createsOregon's Crater Lake[2] when the resulting caldera fills with water.
- c. 5600 BC: desertification of North Africa, migrating to Nile groundwork for the rise of Egyptian civilization.
- c. 5600 BC: The Red Paint People become established i New York state.
- 5509 BC: The Byzantine calendar dates creation to 1 September of this year.
- c. 5500 BC: Beginning of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of modern-day Romania, Moldova,
- c. 5500 BC: Beginning of the Xinle culture in China.
- c. 5500 BC: Agriculture started in Ancient Egypt.
- c. 5400 BC: Beginning of the Zhaobaogou culture in China.
- c. 5400 BC: Irrigation and the beginning of the Sumerian civilization in Southern Iraq.
- c. 5300 BC: Beginning of the Beixin culture in China.
- c. 5200 BC: Beginning of human inhabitation and settlements in Malta.
- c. 5000 BC: Farming reached central and north Europe.
Wine appeared in 6000 BC and beer in 3500 BC - but the ancients cures for hangovers has long been lost...
By Peter PettersonWhile Stone Age vintners reportedly squashed grapes in the region of modern Turkey and Armenia in 6000 BC, and Sumerians and Egyptians brewed beer in large quantities by 3500 BC, it was an eighth century alchemist in what is now known as Iraq, who was the first to be credited with inventing the process of distillation - heating fermented liquids from which pure alcohol is siphoned off.
And the cocktail that some say causes happiness and havoc the world over for humanity had arrived.
But unfortunately his cure for the common hangover had long been lost to humanity
