Thousand-year-old Life front J. - C.

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Thousand-year-old Life front J. - C. belongs to the Mesolithic , which is one transitional period extending from the XI {{E}} thousand-year-old front J. - C. with the Neolithic (towards the V {{E}} thousand-year-old front J. - C.).

Events

the world human population would have passed from approximately seven million in −6000 to nearly 100 million in −2000.

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Africa

Domestication of the millet, indigenous cereal, with the the Sahara.
In South Africa, beginning of the use of the microlithic tools.

Neolithic Civilization pastors of Bovidae in the Tibesti and the Ennedi (Chad) and of fishermen in the south of the Tibesti (−6000 with −3000).
the pastors of Bovidae would have come from the east, of the area of Khartoum. They advance while following the big lakes, then the zones then wet of the Lac Chad and the loop of the Niger.

Représentation of cattle domesticates on the rupestral frescos of the the Sahara.
Domestication of the cattle in North Africa.

Americas

progress of the oak and the pine to the detriment of other conifers to the Minnesota indicates −6000 to −2000 a hotter climate of 1 with 2°C and a little drier than during this millenium. The glaciers of Alaska are smaller than currently between −7100 and −2200.
Remainders of animal and vegetable food found in the shelters - under - rock of the Brazil and the Venezuela, gone back to −6000 with −4000. Important shelly clusters discovered on the the Amazon and the Orénoque, like on the Guianese coast.
Towards −5400, beginning of the breeding of varieties of camélidés in the area of Ayacucho with the Peru.

Asia

In Southeast Asia, beginning of the introduction of the Ceramic into the continental territories (Burma, Thailand, current Vietnam), use of axe-adzes squares and knives of polished Slate. However vegetable abundance does not support the development of the agriculture which exists but in a marginal way.
In China, development of agricultural villages, with the culture of the millet, the breeding of Pig S and Dog S.

Beginning of the development of agriculture in China. The Rice, the millet, the cabbage X are cultivated, the Chien S and the Porc S are high for food, the Jujube S, the plum S and the Noisette S are gathered, the houses have walls of cob, roofs, hearths and silos dug for the storage of the grains.

In Korea, the abundant fishing suffices for sédentariser a population without need for developing agriculture. The complement is provided by the traditional activities of hunting and gathering. Ceramics appears at that time.

Europe

Great Britain becomes an island. The North Sea separates Denmark from Great Britain.
the culture known as of “ceramics Cardial E” (decorations of impression of fingers, punches and shells) develops on the Adriatic coast of the Balkans, then in Italy, on the coasts of France (v. −5800), of Spain, the Portugal and North Africa. The breeding (goat's milk cheeses and sheep originating in the Close East) and hunting seem dominating at these Mediterranean populations living close to the coasts in shelters under rocks or to light constructions. It is supposed that their neolithisation would have been done by progressive acculturation of is in west.

Figurines of terra cotta or carved in the stone in Thessalie, in the Balkans then in Central Europe. Sculptures of heads of fish found close to the hearths of Lépenski Vir (v. −5500).

Civilization of Manglemose (towards −6000 or −5000) of the England to the Siberia. Dwellings grouped around the lakes and on banks of various rivers. Coastal civilization, developing initially at the seaside, with possibility of migration towards the interior of the grounds.

Presence attested of populations around the Lake Annecy, towards −5600.

The Middle East

In Mésopotamie of north and the center:

towards −6000, Important development of agriculture and development of the cultures of Hassouna and Samarra, and appearance of the painted ceramics cooked with the furnace, the metallurgy of copper and lead.
towards −5500, appearance of the culture of Halaf in north, with round houses arched and painted fine ceramics.

In Egypt, introduction of the barley, corn and the sheep, since the the Middle East.
In Iran, towards −5500, first system of irrigation known in the world with Tchogha.

Indian sub-continent

the communities of the plain of Kakkhi to the Baloutchistan are prosperous, the villages are built believed bricks, the craftsmen manufacture polished microlithes, axes, grinding stones and tools in bone. Trade route exists with the territories of current Iran and of the Badakhshan in the North-East of current Afghanistan, from where Lapis-lazuli are imported, Coquillage S sailors and turquoise S. Of the stores and warehouses are built in the villages and the Céramique makes its appearance.
Of the agricultural communities settles in the vast territory of the hills of Vindhya, in the south of the plain of the Gange, where one could find a raw material abundance, animals domestiquables and plants of culture, rices included.
With the Pakistan, significant development of ceramics with Mehrgarh with the beginning of the millennium. They are initially containers produced into weak quantities, in a clay interfered straw, worked using baskets being used as reinforcement. This pottery replaces the coated bitumen baskets which one found many traces in the tombs.
the agricultural economics develops with Mehrgarh. The central part covers believed brick building-silo, divided into boxes or symmetrical compartments. Some were preserved on more than three meters height. The domestic facilities and artisanal occupy of vast open spaces around the silos and do not organize themselves yet in of family housing unit, which suggests a collective social organization.

Japan

Japan: The recent archaeological discoveries seem to prove that the first inhabitants of the archipelago attended the birth of this one: with its progressive detachment of the continent of Asia. This first civilization (Jômon) was the fact small maritime communities of hunter-fishermen. Following the warming started for 2000 years, the south of the peninsula has profited from a hot and wet climate. The forests of leafy trees gain ground on the alpine tundra and the forests of conifers. The men adapt their tools to the presence of this forest (polishing), and become loggers and carpenters. The seasonal coastal establishments deliver more 2500 kaizukas (shelly clusters). Oysters and clams are consumed fresh or dried, which allows their transport towards the interior. The limestone of these kaizukas allowed the conservation of animal and human bones, which make it possible to bring morphology closer to the various human groups of Jômon to the current aboriginals of the Hokkaido (Ainu). In addition to the collectings of the shells, they live primarily of gathering (sweet chestnuts, nut, hazel nuts, grapes, with the autumn, fresh sheets and growths in spring), of hunting (deer tribe and wild boars in winter), of harpoon fishing (marine mammals, tuna in summer).
Sedentary, the people of Jômon live in organized villages of circular structures (as in Nishida, prefecture of Iwate), whose center is used at the same time of place and cemetery. Around, in concentric circles, buildings of square plan are built, on the level of the ground, then half-sunken dwellings of circular plan and pits with provisions.

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

Control of the Sea: fishing in open sea, occupation of the majority of the islands of the the Mediterranean (Corsica, Sardinia, Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Balearic Islands).
Raising: Breeding of ox and the pig in Syria, Israel and Turkey of the South. Use of the Copper. Ceramics spreads.
Beginning of the era of the pottery twisted with the Japan (of −6000 with −300). The Jômon are stamped ceramics with vintage while rolling on their sides of the wrapped sticks of cords. These potteries, rises with the wad and worked with the hand, are cooked in furnaces open to low temperature (450 to 500°C).
Culture and exploitation of the trees with Lacquer in Japan.

Simple: 5200 BC

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