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9000 BC)
(10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – other millennia)
- Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.
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- Circa 8000 BC– N America, glacial Decline, The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.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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