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Events

Europe

Africa

Egypt: The first locatable structured habitats appear in edge of the delta and the valley of the the Nile in the last part of the Life and at the beginning of thousand-year-old Ve. The most former site-witness of a real sedentarisation is Mérimdé Beni Salamé (- 5400, - 5000), in the south-west of the delta. On more than 20 hectares, is organized a whole of small houses of oval plan (2 to 3 m in diameter), partly buried, built on both sides nonrectilinear “streets”. A cob wall supports, either a conical roof supported by a central pillar, or a roof with double slope. Inside a hearth and a buried earthenware jar are laid out which was used as water reserve. Outside many silos, surfaces with grain could be identified. A red and black pottery, glazed or not, rather rough, and tools of abundant flint still characterize this agricultural borough.

With Mérimbé, the breeding (Bovidae, sheep, porcine) and the culture of the cereals (corn and barley) are practiced not only on the easily flooded grounds, but also on the others, further away from the valley thanks to a sufficient pluviometry. Hunting (geese and ducks, hippopotamuses, crocodiles and antelopes) and especially fishing provide an essential share of the resources.
In a separated cemetery, established near the habitat, the late ones are buried in oval pits lying on the side in fetal position. Only of young children are buried in the habitat even. The evolution of the site can be followed in stratigraphy and horizontal extension over more than one half-millenium. The diggers of Mérimbé want to see in the first time of the bonds with the Middle East, of the African traces (saharo-Sudanese women) then. The last levels delivered the first human figurines out of terra cotta known in Egypt.

Americas

Beginning of the breeding of varieties of camélidés in the area of Ayacucho with the Peru.

The Middle East

Beginning of period VIII (- 5400, - 5000): recent Neolithic era.

the civilization of El Obeid (close to Ur) is spread from there until High the Mésopotamie and the the Mediterranean (Ras Shamra) from -5600 to -3750.
average Susiana in the Zagros.

Beginning of the Chalcolithique in Anatolia (- 5400, - 3500).
Of the agglomerations appears in the valley of the Méandre (Beycesultan) and on banks of the the Bosphorus. The Anatolian central plate starts to become populated.
In Cilicie, brown and black ceramics, hand made, is partly replaced by painted ceramics inspired of the potteries of Halaf and El Obeid.

Indian sub-continent

Asia

Significant characters

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

El Obeid : fish, breeding (Bovidae). Trade with the north of the Mésopotamie (obsidian, gold, wood and stone against the surpluses of cereals, wool and skins) and the India (amazonite). Complex systems of drainage and cleansing of the marshy grounds basic Mésopotamie.

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