7th millennium BC - Definition and Overview

(8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – other millennia)

Events

• circa 7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South Asia
• circa 6500 BC – English Channel formed
• circa 6100 BC – The Storegga Slide, causing a megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea
• circa 6000 BC – Neolithic Age in Korea
• circa 6000 BC – First traces of habitation of the Svarthola cave in Norway

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