9th millennium BC
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(10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – other millennia)
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Events
- Circa 9000 BC– Mediterranean - Settling on Mediterranean isles started
- Circa 8700 BC–8400 BC– Britain - Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by Maglemosian peoples
- Circa 8500 BC– Britain - Neolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
- Circa 8350 BC– Middle East - Neolithic settlement at Jericho
- Circa 8300 BC– Britain - Nomadic hunters arrive in England
- Circa 8000 BC– Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
- Circa 8000 BC– Africa - Earliest recorded African stone engravings, in the Apollo 1 cave.
Environmental changes
- Circa 8000 BC– World - Rising Sea
- Circa 8000 BC– Antarctica - long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
- Circa 8000 BC– Asia - rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
- Circa 8000 BC– World - Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time
- Circa 8000 BC– North America - The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.
- Circa 8000 BC– World - Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes place in several regions
Inventions and discoveries
- Circa 8000 BC– Mesopotamia - Agriculture in Mesopotamia
- Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey
- Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Domestication of sheep and goats
- Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Evidence of domestication of dogs from wolves
- Circa 8000 BC– World - Alleged transatlantic trade in tobacco between Africa and South America
- Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies
- Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran
- 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
- World - Humanity officially enters the Stone Age
- World - Total world population may be under 10 million
