8th millennium BC

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The 8th millennium BC describes the period from 8000 BC to 7000 BC

Events

  • Around 8000 BC: agriculture ( millet and rice), ceramics and techniques of Steinschleifens in northern and southern China.
  • To 7400 BC: City Culture in Çatalhöyük (Anatolia)
  • Around 8000 BC: Settlements in Ærø, Denmark were established
  • Around 8000 BC: Settlements in Akure, Nigeria were established
  • Around 8000 BC: Locations in Buskerud in Norway were established

Personalities

Inventions and Discoveries

  • Around 8000 BC: Domestication of the house cattle in what is now southern Turkey
  • Around 8000 BC: domestication of the domestic goat in the Near East.
  • Around 7500 BC, the domestic cat on Cyprus may have been domesticated
April 2014 List of centuries 10th millennium BC Koelbjerg Woman Orient CNN International
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