Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa, 2011Europe and surrounding areas in the 9th millennium BC. Blue areas are covered in ice.
Upper Palaeolithic cultures.
Mesolithic cultures.
Swiderian cultures.
Pontic Tardenoisian cultures.
Iberian Capsian cultures.
Oranian cultures.
Lower Capsian cultures.
The Fertile Crescent.
The Stone Age
↑ before Homo (Pliocene)
Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic Early Stone Age
Homo
Control of fire
Stone tools
Middle Paleolithic Middle Stone Age
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Recent African origin of modern humans
Upper Paleolithic Later Stone Age
Behavioral modernity, Atlatl, Origin of the domestic dog
Epipalaeolithic
Natufian
Mesolithic
Microliths, Bow and Arrows, Canoes
Tahunian
Heavy Neolithic
Shepherd Neolithic
Trihedral Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Neolithic
Neolithic Revolution Domestication
Khiamian culture
Pottery Neolithic
Pottery
↓ Chalcolithic
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The 9th millennium BC spanned the years 9000 BC to 8001 BC (11 to 10 thousand years ago). In chronological terms, it is the first full millennium of the current Holocene epoch that is generally reckoned to have begun by 9700 BC (11.7 thousand years ago). 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 analysis, or by radiometric dating.
In the Near East, especially in the Fertile Crescent, the transitory Epipalaeolithic age was gradually superseded by the Neolithic with evidence of agriculture across the Levant to the Zagros Mountains in modern-day Iran. The key characteristic of the Neolithic is agricultural settlement, albeit with wooden and stone tools and weapons still in use. It is believed that agriculture had begun in China by the end of the millennium. Elsewhere, especially in Europe, the Neolithic continued.
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The 8th millenniumBC spanned the years 8000 BC to 7001 BC (c. 10 ka to c. 9 ka). In chronological terms, it is the second full millennium of the current...
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