7Th Millennium Bc

Events

• circa 7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South Asia
• circa 6000 BC – Neolithic Age in Korea
• circa 6000 BC – First traces of habitation of the Svarthola cave in Norway

Environmental changes

• circa 6500 BC – English Channel formed
• circa 6100 BC – The Storegga Slide, causing a megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Agriculture appears in Europe (Greece, Italy)
• Beekeeping is first recorded. Rock paintings on cave walls in Africa and eastern Spain show people gathering honey from trees or rock crevices while bees fly around them - cave drawings in Spain, near Valencia.
• Pastoralism and cultivation of cereals (East Sahara)
• First pottery in Mesopotamia
• Gold and native copper begin to be used
• Domestication of the cow in the Middle East

Cultural landmarks

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