Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- Rise of agriculture
- Bladed tools found in southwest Iran date from around 8000 BC. They were made from Obsidian that had been transported from Anatolia
- Potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America
- Beginning of millet and rice cultivation in East Asia
- Domestication of the cat and Bos aegyptiacus ox in Ancient Egypt
- Domestication of sheep in Southwest Asia
- Huts, hearths, granaries, and nonportable stone tools for grinding grains Africa
- Catal Huyuk, men wear animals skins, plus hats of the same material Asia
- Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone, and bone flutes China
- Clay and plaster are molded to form statues at Jericho and Ain Ghazal Mediterranean
- First evidence of incised "counting tokens" about 9,000 years ago in the Neolithic fertile crescent, Asia
- Japanese potters begin to decorate pottery cooking vessels
- Simple pottery traditions sometimes with cord impressions or other decorative markings Korea
- Evidence of wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggests that a food-producing economy is adopted in Aegean Greece
- Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece, attests to the earliest deliberate burials in Greece
- North Sea: North Sea bottoms are largely dry land before this period, England
- Pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology Mexico
- In the valley of Mexico, chili peppers and "grain" (amaranth and maize) are grown.
- World—Between 12,000 BC and 5000 BC it appears that massive inland flooding was taking place in several regions of the world, making for subsequent sea level rises, which could be relatively abrupt for many worldwide
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