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1374:(founded possibly as early as 4395 cal BC via Ubaid urbanisation and influence). The region around Susa in the southwest of modern Iran, is located right next to lower Mesopotamia, which exercised a powerful influence on Uruk and its neighbours from the 5th millennium. Susa I (4000 - 3700 BC) saw the beginning of monumental architecture on the site, with the construction of a 'High Terrace'. Susa alongside its allies is invaded and destroyed in c. 4200 BC. The city of 1363:. However the early half of the 5th millennium, the Chogha Mish main monumental building was destroyed and along with it its power declined. This became known as the 'Burnt Building'. This destruction of Chogha Mish also coincided with the abandonment of some other sites on the eastern part of the Susiana plain. The settlements of the subsequent period shifted more to the west, especially with the founding and rise of the city of 1036:, suggesting a requirement for astrological, scientific, astronomical, or economical (trade) archives. This provides the earliest known example of copper smelting in the Old World, imperial-like social stratification with communal spaces, and large scale trade networks where its distinctive figurines reach as far as Western Europe. The culture ends with abandonment and conflicts circa 4200 BC. 945: 1583:(or Djeitun) had housed settlements and had culturally united Southern Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, existing for over 2000 years already at the turn of the millennium until 4600 BC. Increasing aridity in the late Neolithic i.e., Chagylly Depe, internationally farmers increasingly grew the kinds of crops that are typically associated with irrigation in an arid environment, such as 1321:(founded circa 5000 BC), experiences a rapid increase in dominance, establishing itself beyond merely a regional power circa 4500 BC with the Eanna quarter or district first constructed. Uruk in its climb for dominance would go on to construct the Anu Ziggurat circa 4000 BC. It is these centuries of careful development which gave Uruk its legendary dominance later in the 1744:
cultures of North Asia are distinguished from the preceding Mesolithic cultures and are far more visible as a result of the introduction of pottery from Southwards. The Afanasevan population was a mix of people descended from a mother culture of Indo Europeans in central Russia, and from people who migrated back c. 3700–3300 BCE across the
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a very large polity with transregional power with city walls, and a Tell Brak expansion beyond the mound to form a lower town. By the late 5th millennium BC, Tell Brak reached the size of c. 55 hectares. The remains of a monumental building alongside other large scale projects erected with two meters
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migrants, originating ultimately from Taiwan, arrived in Melanesia, circa 4000 BC. They settled mostly along the north coast of New Guinea and on the islands to its north and east. When they arrived, they came into contact with the much more ancient indigenous Papuan-speaking peoples. These earliest
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during the Ubaid period the site extended out to an area of about 12 hectares (about 30 acres). Twelve neolithic clay tokens, the precursor to Proto-cuneiform, were found in the Ubaid levels of the site. The city was the major power at least in the first half of the 5th millennium. It would go on to
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spanned the years [5000 BCE - 4000 BCE) (c. 7 ka to c. 6 ka), that is, inclusive of 5000 BCE but exclusive of 4000 BCE. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological
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Cultures of Mesoamerica advance their cultivation of maize further with an introduction of maize (corn) into the inter-Andean valleys of Colombia in this millennia sometimes via highways. Meanwhile, Peruvian cultures continue to advance cultivation of beans and squash circa 4000 BC. Forest clearing
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More complex structures followed during a second intensive wave onwards from 4500 BC. With alignments with Sirius, Arcturus, Alpha Centauri, and the Belt of Orion. This suggests a great academic pursuit to investigate astronomical observations, cosmology and mathematics. Fifth millennium alignments
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did not have any agricultural introduction or even pastoralism in Siberia during the central European Neolithic. Its cultures is characterized by characteristic stone production techniques and the presence of pottery of eastern origin via trade despite West Eurasian genetics. However, the neolithic
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experiences sporadic but controlled growth of socially stratified settlements, with communal areas, segregation of classes per quarters and complex social stratification. Increased conflict between democratic councils, large scale chiefdoms, royalties, polities and imperial-like aspirations. Large
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lasts until 4550 BC. Its cultural links with Anatolia suggest that it was the result of settlement by people from Anatolia, unlike the neighbouring cultures, which appear descended from earlier Neolithic settlement. Such migrations represent strong communication systems between large stretches of
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Some estimates using the controversial method of glottochronology suggest an approximate splitting date of the Proto-Otomanguean languages at c. 4400 BC. This makes the Oto-Manguean family the language family of the Americas with the deepest time depth, as well as the oldest language family with
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is said to have a portion of its depictions dating to around 4,000 BC, which show battle scenes or skirmishes between the people in the local area. The art also includes animals and other ceremonial meanings. These scenes have been dated to up to 10,000 years old and down to 6,000 years old when
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The Amazon rainforest with earlier sourced agricultural polities, experiences migrations and colonisation of these now more advanced agriculturalist chiefdoms with their permanent settlements. Conflicts with native tribes in more remote regions would have arose. Rather than being a pristine
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Around the time of the 5th Millennium BC, there was a proliferation of stone tool, plant processing and landscape modification technologies. Elaborate fish and eel traps involving channels up to three kilometres long were in use in western Victoria from about 6,500 years ago. Semi-permanent
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or Pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherers in India, and farmers, from the Iranian Plateau, sharing deep ancestry with "Neolithic Iranian farmers" and other West Eurasians, and indigenous South Asian hunter-gatherers (also known as "Ancestral Ancient South Asians" AASI), distantly related to the
2204:. This is simultaneous with cultural diffusions via the Sahara (African Humid Period). A second wave of intensive construction occurred around 4800 BC where stone circles were aligned with the summer solstice, near the beginning of the rainy season emphasising a virtue of fertility. 1270:- Ubaid 4: Late Ubaid style ceramics, circa 4700 - 4200 BC. Maritime trade via the Persian Gulf peaks, connecting to Southern Iranian ports and polities. Obsidian trade is most notable with extraction and transportation to industrial style worskhops over a 170 km distance, see 2951:
in the sixteenth century. This Julian Period lasts 7,980 years until the year 3268 (current era) in the next millennium. It is a useful device for date conversions between different calendars. The date of origin has the integer value of zero in the Julian Day Count: i.e., in the
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Some of the earliest known villages appear along sea coasts, specifically the Chiapas and Caribbean coasts.It is likely that the abundant sea and lagoon resources could easily support long-term, via sea travel and year-round settlements, leading people to settle first in these
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holds large scale sedentary structures and coastal adaptation with inheritance of agricultural practices from millennia before alongside newly maize production. Experiences a sudden collapse (circa 4600 BC) resulting in a 1000-year gap within the local archaeological record.
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It was formerly thought that proto-Bantu originated somewhere in the border region between Nigeria and Cameroon. However, new research revealed that was more likely the original area of Proto-Southern Bantoid, before it spread southwards into Cameroon long before Proto-Bantu
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forms circa 4000 BC. Cultural distinctions between the two are first observed, however Aramatian influence begins to expand throughout Upper and Middle Egypt, with trade routes of cedar from Byblos to gold and obsidian imported from Nubia representing complex social
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of Egypt and also seems to have affinities (e.g., the distinctive churns, or "bird vases") with early Minoan culture in Crete. Cypriot affinities are not seen, with Cyprus experiencing newcomers circa 4500 BC who arrived and introduced a new Neolithic era. This
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was farmed here, as early as 4700 BCE, representing networks of trade and agricultural selective breeding, spanning over millennia. Peoples living in complex sedentary structures, along the coast of northern Peru were already eating corn by that
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Megaliths in South Asia are dated before 3000 BC, with recent findings dated back to 5000 BC in southern India. Cultures within central India had metallurgy, trade, payment of dues (possibly taxes or contributions to religious ceremonies) and
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was used for selective clothes, representative of higher classes and economic specialisation. Priest-like roles dedicated to astronomical study and observational seasonal change in relation to Peruvian society's reliance on agriculture were
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for lapis lazuli. Mehrgarh Periods II and III are also contemporaneous with an expansion of the settled populations of the borderlands at the western edge of South Asia, including the establishment of settlements like Rana Ghundai,
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Increasing rapid migrations from Iran, with various waves bringing advanced metallurgy and other innovations, but it is thought that the newcomers soon blended with the Jeitun farmers. A large portion of these peoples settled in
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These results suggest that the European-related ancestry in Indian populations might be much older and more complex than anticipated, and might originate from the first wave of agriculturists millennia before the 5th Millennium
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where from 4700 BC these canals drew and transported water from springs in the Andes mountains region for immense agriculture. Use of the canals ended circa 4500 BC, representing periodic social declines and conflict between
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is traded across North and Eastern Africa by the various cultures. These pieces are some of the oldest examples of pottery, made by Eurasian descended hunter-fisher-gatherers in a tradition that lasted. 5000 years since the
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experiences new phase of sedentarism from prior nomadic lifestyles (circa 5000 BC). During the fifth millennium BC, migrations from the drying Sahara brought neolithic people into the Nile Valley along with agriculture, see
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had done so. Regardless, both show admixture, along with other Austronesian populations outside of Taiwan, indicating varying degrees of intermarriage between the incoming Neolithic Austronesian settlers and the preexisting
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of Papua New Guinea at least 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, representing an early phase of colonisation. These Polynesian polities did not adopt nor intermarry on a large with the Australo-Melanesians like the Austronesians in
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of Greece where increasing population densities are most notable. Over 400 years, Dimini imperially expands, later absorbing Sesklo culture completely before the final invasion and destruction of Sesklo ca. 4400 BC. The
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from Danubian and Caucasus civilizations to Indo-European steppe cultures with social stratification and royal chiefs of their own. Considerable Danubian influence on Central European polities and cultures must also be
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In the Caucasus: Settlements of the 5th millennium BC in North Caucasus attest to a material culture that was related to contemporaneous archaeological complexes in the northern and western Black Sea region like the
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as early as the late 5th millennium BC. Immense population densities, and urbanised cultures in Taiwan and China made these early explorers and group explore what was beyond the frontier, Eastwards of coastal
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with Eurasian genotype. Eurasian migrations continue onwards in some places from the rapid migrations of the previous millennia into the Sahara, representing a time of great social and economic opportunity.
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Sea levels had become relatively stabilized by the time of 4500 BC around the coastlines of Australia. This occurred after several thousands of years of sea level rising, due to glaciers melting after the
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East Between 7500 BCE and 3500 BCE, amid the Green Sahara, undomesticated central Saharan flora were farmed, stored, and cooked, and domesticated animals (e.g., Barbary sheep) were milked and managed in
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originating from the Mesolithic continues to be experimented upon and further alongside mathematics which is developed across all of Europe by various polities continuously through the 5th millennium.
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Stone points for spears and distinct stone point technology have been found dating from 5–7 thousand years ago in Australia. Many of the early stone point technologies are specifically found in the
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style ceramics was produced. This period also saw the development of extensive canal networks near major settlements. New highly developed irrigation systems, which seems to have developed first at
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In the East:Preceded by assumed earlier sites in the Eastern Sahara, tumuli with megalithic monuments developed as early as 4700 BC in the Saharan region of Niger with complex theological work and
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By 4000 BCE, the Tibeto-Burmese cultures had reached Nepal either directly across the Himalayas from Tibet or via Myanmar and north-east India or both. This is representative of conflicts with the
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based on geographical location, however the language itself is known to have largely been native to central India as well. This melting pot of cultures peaked from the 5th millennium BC into the
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scale stone masonry for public use, and organised seal estampage of international importance are associated characteristics of the era. P. Amiet sees as a 'proto-royal figure,' i.e., potentially
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has close trade relations with the Mediterranean Neolithic communities of southern France, the Iberian Peninsula, the Italian peninsula and Sicily and is a major participant of the silver trade.
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Diffusion of African Humid Period religions, and cultural traits Eastwards to Egypt via political, social and economical interrelated movements. Southwards migrations result in emergence of the
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event. This knowledge was passed down in oral history among the Aboriginal tribes of Australia as they recalled the drastic sea level rises that ended up swallowing their once lower coastlines.
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is present especially on the Gulf Coast, with the cultures of Mesoamerica, with social stratification present, workshops, stone settlements, paved roads and an extensive obsidian trade, see
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Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs, with further development of mathematics, alchemy and astronomy within the polities of Egypt, see
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which was a major production centre in the important Obsidian trade and thus power. An intensive copper trade, connecting Europe with the East, is represented in Anatolia by sites at
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continue to practice and advance their agricultural system. In the form of ancient irrigation systems in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, are being studied by archaeologists. The
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Central: A millennia after the Iranian farmer cultures had first cemented with ancestry from the Caucasus and Iranian plateau hunter-gatherers and middle east, (circa 6000 BC) in
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thrive with trade routes connecting Egypt to Syria, the Sinai and Red Sea. Both share culturally distinctive "black-top ware". Badarian culture expands Southwards towards future
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During this millennium astronomical and theological work continues to develop. Such examples synonymous with the yearly cycle and gift of maize production is the origins of the
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are invented somewhere in eastern Siberia, spreading south into via trade into Japan and east into North America, where they are ancestral to the sophisticated designs of the
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Native Americans in the northern Great Lakes produce copper tools, ornaments, and utensils traded throughout the Great Plains and Ohio Valley representing a high level of
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experienced repeated flooding alongside the other city states, due to continuous floods of the Euphrates within this era. Ur would later rise to great prominence in the
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Examination of mitochondrial DNA lineages shows that they have been evolving in ISEA for longer than previously believed. Ancestors of the Polynesians arrived in the
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Mediterranean trade networks are long forged, with complex economical activities by polities, stretching from the Adriatic to Portugal and parts of North Africa see
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Trade with Levant and external regions on an impressive scale and covering large distances starts to connect Europe with Asia on a more direct scale than before.
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Alongside megalithic monuments or tomb with high social and astronomical importance to polities of the era, stone circles are erected as far as France, see the
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is founded circa 4000 BC, and alongside Susa begins to separate itself culturally from the West, developing the lands with its newly integrated peoples into a
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collections of wooden huts on mounds also appeared in western Victoria, associated with a more systematic exploitation of new food sources in the wetlands.
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The TehuacĂĄn culture (5000 BC-2300 BC) were likely Proto-Otomanguean speakers that inhabited the area of the TehuacĂĄn valley during the 5th millennium BC.
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Tibetan cultures and settlements have been found mainly "in river valleys in the south and east of the country". Archaeological sites consist of those in
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region. Such migrations including early Uralic Eastern migrations into North Asia from Eurasia, which started and occurred during the mid 5th millennium.
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Scattered nomadic groups maintained herds of sheep, goats, horses, and camels, and conducted annual migrations to find new pastures (a practice known as
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featuring signs of notable conflict during the prior Ubaid expansion. Weapons smithing, copper trade and notable temples built circa 4200 BC are present.
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Cucuteni in der oberen Moldau, Rumanien: die befestigte Siedlung mit bemalter Keramik von der Steinkupferzeit bis in die vollentwickelte Bronzezeit
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with immense population density were an early and independent center of agriculture, with evidence of irrigation going back at least 10,000 years.
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of stele to bright stars focussed on issues of major practical importance of the era being: cattle, water, death, earth, sun, stars and theology.
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The advanced Mexican agriculturalist culture and polities expanded and developed their agricultural practices for millennia now, alongside their
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Proto-Berber populations migrate Northwards towards Libya resulting in increased population density and diffusion of religion, explained via the
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Clothing alongside social stratification is demonstrable in Peru. 6000-year-old dyed cotton fabric was discovered at the Preceramic site of
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Negroid hunter-gatherers, who created the Round Head rock art, adopted the culture of cattle pastoralism from incoming cattle pastoralists.
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The 5th millennium has become a start point for calendars and chronologies. The year 4750 BC is the retrospective startpoint for the
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circa 4000 bc due to an extensive dry period which would go on to last 2000 years. This may account for racial distinctions between
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by Khoisan hunter-gatherer-herders, in Malawi and Zambia by considerably dark-skinned, occasionally bearded, bow-and-arrow-wielding
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One subclade, now known as R1b1a2 (R-V88), is found only at high frequencies amongst populations native to West Africa, such as the
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in modern Pakistan was the largest urban and trade centre between East, South and West Asia. It pioneered metallurgy for millennia,
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showed stronger cultural connections like similar tool kits and use of red ochre, portrays intimate and centuries-old ties with the
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Trade via seafaring and ports between Western Hunter Gatherers in Ireland and cultures in Neolithic Western Europe (circa 4000 BC) (
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stretches from Sicily and Calabria to the Aeolian Islands representing cultural focus on seafaring and maritime trade at this time.
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Megalithic constructions continue all over Western Europe, with increasing social stratification and social complexity. See the
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Early 5th millennium BC, cattle herding, animal husbandry and polities within the Sahara continue to thrive, most notably the
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of the northern portion of West Australia. Spear throwers or more specifically developed and used by Australian Aboriginals, '
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Across the Southeastern Woodlands, starting around 4000 BC, people exploited wetland resources, creating large shell middens.
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land, political motives and a further indication of the Black Sea trade most notable of the period via seafaring and land.
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colonisations by Austronesian people's will pale in comparison to the later more rapid and expansive waves in the great
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Cucuteni in upper Moldova, Romania: the fortified settlement with painted pottery from the stone age to the copper age
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Shell mounds in these areas are highly visible, which likely aided in their identification by scholars. Examples like
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Chinese civilisation advanced in this millennium with the beginnings of three noted cultures from around 5000 BC. The
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Yet another calendar starting date in the 5th millennium is Monday, 1 January 4713 BC, the beginning of the current
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Lauricocha III: 4200 – 2500 BC (Andean preceramic V) begins. Chiefdoms and fish gatherer-hunter societies dominate.
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in the Indian subcontinent (around 3300 BC) inhabited the area before the arrival of other ethnic groups like the
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Neolithic farming guilds and polities maintain a relatively fixed frontier in Northern Central Europe (modern-day
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Tripolye culture) began around 4800 BC. It was centred on modern Moldova and lasted in three defined phases until
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In modern Turkey: Strong Anatolian polities counteract the balance of power from the Ubaid polities and dwaining
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circa 4100 experiences rapid mass migration and settlement into the Isles. Deforestation on a momentous scale in
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was a major trading hub in Peru (Paredones and Huaca Prieta) In connection to the trading networks to Mexico,
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with stronger storm patterns result in significant rates of soil erosion. Precursors to the migrations of the
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languages in Siberia. The connection is commonly thought to have been the result of a back-migration of early
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and rapid political emergence via expansion gives us a depiction of the cultural complexity of these cultures.
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was in the later phase of the Green Sahara, in the 6th or 5th millennium BC. It was prior to the end of the
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have had their origins traced via elemental analysis to three sources in Southern Anatolia: Hotamis Dağ,
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The south-western part of Iran after 4400 BC restarts urbanisation, with large scale settlements such as
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grew into its maximum size of 17 hectares in the Late Susiana period, and was dominant onwards from the
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had resulted in increasing urbanisation and increasing social stratification. Such cultures include:
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Mesolitihic hunter-gatherers continue to dominate most parts of Indonesia. Notable cultures are the
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at either 18:00 on the 22nd (Jewish calendar) or 09:00 on the 23rd (Ussher-Lightfoot-Chronology).
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later. It has generally been believed that the calendar was based on a heliacal (dawn) rising of
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to the north. These people pioneered the growing of grains in the extreme conditions of aridity.
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between 4000 BCE and 1000 BCE, representative of a priest class with diffused religion from the
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importations into sub saharan Africa via Eurasian descended pastoralists with the emergence of
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existed possibly also in East Asia (in and toward the south of East Asia) at least since the
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is used of late Mesolithic cultures of Central Asia, during the 6th to 5th millennium BC (in
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Such cultural elements change and are replaced, suddenly during the latter first half of the
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occur westerwards onwards from this upheaval. Danubian civilization and culture such as the
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present, potentially interconnected with the theological and astronomical advancements in
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continues into the early 5th millennium, with demographic integration of Ubaid culture by
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cements itself as mainstream art in Europe, continuing onward from the 6th millennium BC.
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South: Red finger-painted rock art created between 4000 BC, and 200 AD, to the south of
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of the more ancient, native proto-Berber peoples sometimes intermixed and alongside the
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These people were in the following millennium later, largely displaced by migrations of
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peoples (not to be confused with the language) whose history predates the onset of the
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Grollemund, R.; Branford, S.; Bostoen, K.; Meade, A.; Venditti, C.; Pagel, M. (2015).
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encompassing sedentary populations has been documented to have occurred by c. 4000 BC.
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Another traditional date is 19 July 4241 BC, marking the supposed beginning of the
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cultures in the 5th millennium BC. These cultures although experiencing trade with
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1160:(circa 4000 BC). Migrates southwards via the Danube eventually reaching Anatolia. 5018: 4360: 4176: 4069: 3401: 3157:
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peoples and tribes continue to inhabit and thrive in Melenasia. Individuals with
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populations and the time of divergence between the two predated Steppe migration:
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The Black Sea Flood Question: changes in coastline, climate and human settlement
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deeper into the Sahara. Cultural significant elements are complex theology, red
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circa 4400 BC. With concentrated settlements and elites economically focused on
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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evidence an extensive trade system over several millennia across North America.
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Rock art in the Northern Territory of Australia, specifically from the area of
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migrate with long distanced trade routes and large chiefdoms between Eastern
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thick walls and a basalt threshold reveals a social elite of extreme prowess.
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and later migrations from Central China to Southeastern Asia after adopting
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In Arabia: Continuation of Ubaid economical expansion and culture(since the
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Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
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Some Dravidian cultures formed from an admixture event between primarily
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spanned from the savanna region to the eastern Saharan region, and from
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may have also developed in 2000 BCE, as evidenced by depictions of the
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decline in sovereignty within the 4th millennium. It is here where the
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Trinidad continues from the 6th to 5th millennium onwards to hold the
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Significant linguistic connections are made with the precursor to the
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who were culturally assimilated around 4800 BC. Such polities include
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since at least 6000 BC. For the transportation of goods and dung for
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and increased cultural connection alongside trade routes to Anatolia.
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cultures continue from prior millennia to dominate Southern Africa.
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Jordan's vast and powerful urban polities and Bedouin-like cultures
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despite predating great eastern expansions from the steppe of the
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alongside invasions by Ubaid polities. One example of violence is
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lived through this climatic shift in tribes and chiefdoms in the
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began to invade and expand into the south and east, engaging the
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These Southern migrations into India contributed to parts of the
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predate the African neolithic by thousands of years. A unity of
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thrives, beginning circa 4600 BC to 4200 BC reflecting Kingship.
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and by the middle of the 3rd millennium BC into eastern Africa.
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Peruvian advances this side of the world, in domestication of
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pottery of periods 2 and 3 has been documented at site H3 in
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Prior environmental devastation in the previous two millennia
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Maghreb transfers from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic stage
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was one of the important mountain encampments at the time.
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Significant occupation of the Colombian Caribbean coast by
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these cultures also had settlements with store houses. The
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agriculture in the African Neolithic period, following the
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Lauricocha II: 6000 – 4200 BC (Andean preceramic IV) ends.
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thrives, immigrating from the North into the whole of the
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language and parts of the Dravidian language to a prior
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replaced the void of the collapse of the 6th millennium
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a key economical hub of pottery manufacture. Another is
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Ballard, R.D.; Coleman, D. F.; Rosenberg, G.D. (2000).
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Carter, R. (2010). Pottery from H3. In R. Carter &
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Its chronology within the 5th millennium consists of:
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millennia before. This expansion of these set of the
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Central to West:Populations and tribes spreading the
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Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher (19 April 2018).
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Bradshaw, Richard; Fandos-Rius, Juan (27 May 2016).
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Shell ornaments and copper items at Indian Knoll in
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flourishes in Lower Egypt (circa 5000 BC - 4200 BC).
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which bordered the Persian Gulf, a major trade hub.
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The dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 BCE
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continued to be farmed on mass scale since 6000 BC.
1795:, a family that would have pioneered Susa, Central 1249:- Ubaid 2 occurs circa 4800–4500 BC. At that time, 4986:Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac 3661:(278). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 858–866. 2459:people's into West, East and North Africa, by the 2404:. Though possibly developed as early as 5000 BCE, 1399:notably having a standing army circa 4300 BC, and 1274:.Southern expansions continue Southwards to Oman. 2684:evidence of tonal contrast in the proto-language. 2520:chiefdoms split off, and expanded Eastwards from 1667:(c. 3500–2500 BCE) inhabit the regions of modern 4894:. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford. p. 78. 4196:– via The University of Western Australia. 2894:, some 2,000 years before it actually happened. 2246:figure existing circa 4100 BC to 3900 BC within 3828:Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia - Google Books 2497:until 19th century CE, and in Transvaal by the 2443:may have been associated with the expansion of 1854: 1528:On the other hand, the millennia long attested 4959:"October 23, 4004 B.C.: Happy Birthday Earth!" 3825:Oxenham, Marc; Tayles, Nancy (20 April 2006). 1242:. This phase, showing clear connection to the 1022:(PIE) existed as the forerunner of all modern 5071: 4168:The past 50,000 years: An archaeological view 3220: 3218: 2598:that were once widespread throughout Eurasia. 1257:(4700–4600 BC) and rapidly spread elsewhere. 925: 281: 8: 4053:"The Genetic Structure of Pacific Islanders" 3622:Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society 2125:North to latitude 15° North of the Equator: 3853:DNA Sheds New Light on Polynesian Migration 3703:. Yale University Press. pp. 206–209. 3308: 2339:Although constituent groups and genetic of 2174:The earliest-known permanent settlement in 2019:to the rest of Southeast Asia and Oceania. 1844:explored within the linguistics of the era. 5078: 5064: 5056: 4244:(2). Cambridge University Press: 211–248. 3575:"Megalith from 5000 BC found in Telangana" 3040:] (in German). Berlin: W. de Gruyter. 2637:Southwest and notably the Colorado Plateau 2451:and segregation of the Eurasian descended 2129:It is estimated that the beginning of the 1710:Modern Dravidian (Geographically in India) 1069:Uralic languages and cultures continue to 932: 918: 299: 288: 274: 112: 4740: 4730: 4524: 4475: 4418: 4369: 4359: 4086: 4068: 4008: 3998: 3956: 3899: 3801: 3208:Prehistoric Trade Routes In the Black Sea 2474:The final period (4500 - 4000 BC) of the 1053:first arises circa 4800 BC alongside the 4499:Manning, Katie; Timpson, Adrian (2014). 4393:Manning, Katie; Timpson, Adrian (2014). 3459:History of civilizations of Central Asia 2746:and preistlt rites of fertility brought 2449:desiccation of the Sahara in c. 3500 BCE 2062:(also called the "Out of Taiwan" model). 1848:Indian Y-lineages are close to southern 1332:Some other polities of note are firstly 27:Millennium between [5000 BCE - 4000 BCE) 4919:. Librairie ArthĂ©me Fayard. p. 52. 3560: 3503: 3136: 2981: 2913:but that view is now being questioned. 2873:remained in the South, and the rest of 2844:Maize production originates from Mexico 302: 123: 3390:. Oxford, UK: Oxbow. pp. 219–229. 3113:"Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European" 2329:Dotted wavy line and wavy line pottery 2289:, with migrations continuing into the 1741:Northern and Eastern Siberian cultures 1587:, which became predominant during the 1286:, preceding the 'priest-kings' of the 31: 4545:Igbo Language Roots and (Pre)-History 4306:The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology 3205:Peev, Preslav (24–26 February 2005). 3082:Trypillia settlement periodization... 2463:. This contemporary expansion of the 2071:It is estimated that the distinctive 7: 4764:Meredith, Martin (14 October 2014). 3416:Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 1486:found in the Chalcolithic levels at 4319:Cole, Joshua; Symes, Carol (2017). 3740:Sugar cane early origins and spread 3074:Passek, Tatiana Sergeyevna (1949). 2924:, whose basis was the dates in the 2901:, as calculated retrospectively by 2744:Southern intensive trading networks 2659:begins circa 5000 BC alongside the 2256:finishing completely circa 5000 BC. 2037:Australo-Melanesian populations of 1158:First major Indo European migration 4957:Bressan, David (22 October 2013). 3517:Proceedings of the British Academy 2712:Ortoiroid archaeological tradition 1787:from the 5th millennium BC to the 1459:and trade, notably importing from 25: 4567:Newman (1995), Shillington (2005) 2242:circa 4000 BC. Potential time of 1827:, having multiple variants i.e., 1382:cultural and economic revolution. 4238:Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4110:Delaney, Brigid (23 July 2015). 3701:The Archaeology of Ancient China 2508:Importantly, circa 4500 BC, the 2493:hunter-gatherers who resided in 2106:painted continuously over time. 1799:, trade and politics within the 1703:Sino-Tibetan language expansions 4526:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.003 4420:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.003 3987:Molecular Biology and Evolution 3186:Daley, Jason (11 August 2016). 3167:Curry, Andrew (18 April 2016). 2765:. This is where legendary hero 2594:back into Siberia, forming the 1645:of the Eastern Baltic. See the 1168:will survive on until the late 1084:. One most notable site is the 382:Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period 4875:"Unnatural Histories – Amazon" 4681:Atlas of the World's Languages 4171:. Cambridge University Press. 4010:11858/00-001M-0000-0010-0145-0 3831:. Cambridge University Press. 3599:. Cambridge University Press. 3491:. Springer. pp. 245–370. 1949:The powerful chiefdoms of the 1829:Proto-South Dravidian language 1571:and migrations from southwest 1559:Central Asia (North and South) 1: 4944:10.1080/00438243.1991.9980172 4847:Sicoli, Mark (January 2005). 4805:The Dene-Yeniseian Connection 3534:Krishna P. Bhattarai (2009). 3350:10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00108-0 2960:is 24 November 4714 BC. 2956:; the equivalent date in the 2690:Archaic period in Mesoamerica 2645:Archaic-Early Basketmaker Era 2524:chiefdoms whom in an earlier 2161: 2144:) and the desiccation of the 2138: 1934: 1892: 1769:Proto-Indo European languages 1731:The original homeland of the 1302:were said to have once dwelt. 1261: 1012: 1002: 978: 586:Neolithic Southeastern Europe 4630:. Rowman & Littlefield. 4361:10.1371/journal.pone.0118625 4177:10.1017/CHO9781107445758.005 4165:Veth, Peter; O'Connor, Sue. 4070:10.1371/journal.pgen.0040019 3760:K. T.; Reinecke, A. (2019). 3573:P, Pavan (24 October 2016). 1917:began in eastern China with 1551:and in Dosariyah in eastern 1437:may account for the lack of 1092:Long distanced Eastern trade 255:*Relative to year 2000 ( 5042:Suthan, Resat (2009–2014). 3630:10.1007/978-90-481-8716-4_8 2871:hunter-gatherer populations 2818:again is noticeable in the 2769:is said to have once lived. 2635:glacial runoff affects the 2467:preceded the more infamous 737: in the Gulf of Cambay 57:4th millennium BC 52:5th millennium BC 47:6th millennium BC 5261: 5025:Princeton University Press 4917:A History of Ancient Egypt 4543:(1989), 9–10 (cited after 4505:Quaternary Science Reviews 4468:10.1038/s41598-019-39802-1 4399:Quaternary Science Reviews 3786:10.1038/s41598-018-35426-z 2516:of Southern Cameroon, the 2357:Cushitic agrarian cultures 2053:The very earliest wave of 1989:and overall, from Western 1876: 1599:founded circa 4500BC. The 1441:sites in northern Turkey. 1166:Cucuteni-Trypillia culture 1018:, a single dialect called 995:Cucuteni–Trypillia culture 827:Savanna Pastoral Neolithic 491:Gumelnița–Karanovo culture 471:Cucuteni–Trypillia culture 4250:10.1017/S0959774300001086 3667:10.1017/s0003598x00087494 3400:Vidale, Massimo, (2017). 2754:origins circa 5000 BC in 2167:, herders moved into the 1997:in the 5th millennium BC. 1819:and other East Eurasians. 1793:Elamo-Dravidian languages 1771:(circa 4500 BC), via the 1733:Indo Europeans' ancestors 1011:From about 4500 BC until 104:41st century BC 101:42nd century BC 98:43rd century BC 95:44th century BC 92:45th century BC 89:46th century BC 86:47th century BC 83:48th century BC 80:49th century BC 77:50th century BC 4915:Grimal, Nicolas (1988). 4849:"Oto-Manguean Languages" 3725:National Geographic News 3595:; Chen, Xingcan (2012). 3270:Wittfogel, Karl (1981) " 3228:Routledge (31 Dec 1996) 3111:Powell, Eric A. (2019). 3032:Schmidt, Hubert (1932). 2932:. 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Index

4713 BC
Millennia
6th millennium BC
5th millennium BC
4th millennium BC
Centuries
Pleistocene
Holocene
ICS
stages
ages
Greenlandian
11.7*
8.236*
ka
Northgrippian
4.2† ka
Meghalayan
Blytt–Sernander
Preboreal
10.3†–9† ka
Boreal
9–7.5† ka
Atlantic
7.5
5† ka
Subboreal
5
2.5† ka
Subatlantic

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