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

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Thousand-year-old VIIe front J. - C. belongs to the Mesolithic which is one transitional period extending from the thousand-year-old XIe front J. - C. until the Neolithic , towards the thousand-year-old Ve front J. - C..

Events

Towards -7000

Sea to -15 meters.

Europe:

art Magdalénien survives in Spain (Levante).
Civilization of Klosterlund (Denmark); trace tribes of hunters come from south-east; manufacture of harpoons, objects in horn and bone, appearance of the first genuine flint axes.

Africa:

the Atérien disappears from the the Sahara.
Neolithic Culture soudanienne in the Sahara.
Mesolithic of Khartoum into High Nubie. Potteries incised in waves.

the Middle East:

On the old of Jericho, occupied for 2000 years and strengthened site for 1000 years, has developed a religion, attested by “surmodelés” craniums whose features perhaps reproduce those of the venerated ancestors.
the economy is founded on the culture of corn and the barley, the breeding of the sheep and the goats. The goats replace the gazelles like source of meat in Jericho.
In Palestine, beginning of ceramics as well as other forms of craft industry.
In Anatolia: Foundation of Çatal Hüyük in the plain of Konya, on the edges of Çarşamba. It is the greatest Neolithic site of the the Middle East, famous for its impressive believed brick architecture, its craft industry, and its developed art. Domestication of the pig.

In India: Neolithic establishment of Mehrgarh, in Baloutchistan from - 7000 with - 5500.

In the plain of Kakkhi in the Pakistani Baloutchistan, the first agricultural communities is constituted. The area of the Indus as later on that of the Gange offers a large variety of resources: highlands and lowlands, the Barley, the Corn, cattle, sheep and goats, of the flint nodules, game, the easy passages towards the Central Asia.
Between the river Indus and the hills of the Baloutchistan develops an agricultural civilization with the barley like principal cereal.

In Americas:

Into high Amazonia, culture of the Manioc.
With the Mexico, beginning of the culture of cereals in the Valley of Tehuacàn. Domestication of marrow, lawyer, spiced sweet pepper, beans and the gourd (- 7000, - 5000).
Culture of corn in South America attested by pollens.
In North America, beginning of the semi-permanent establishments with a food mode in which the plants are increasingly present.
Occupation of the site of Koster, in the Illinois, of -7000 with 1200.

In New Guinea, beginning of the culture of the edible roots ( taro ).
In Australia, cemetery of the site of Roonka Flat, on the Murray To rivet. Twelve tombs are gone back to -7000/-4000.

Towards -6500

With Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia, first textiles containing flax, beginnings of the small metallurgy of copper and manufacture of jewel X in Copper.
In North Africa and the the Sahara, the first domestications of the indigenous cattle.
the rise of water separate the British Isles from the continent.
Beginning of the Neolithic in Balkans with the introduction of agriculture, the diffusion of cereals, the sheep and the domesticated goats, certainly starting from the Anatolia.

Towards -6300

In the area of Ayacucho to the Peru, domestication of seeds and specific plants of high-altitude like the Sweet potato.

Towards -6200

Europe: Establishment of agricultural villages on the Mediterranean coasts.

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

Beginning of the development of agriculture in Mésoamérique. The Corn, the Bean S and the potatoes are cultivated.
India: culture of the barley and corn, breeding of the goat. The progressive evolution of the composition of the vegetable and animal remainders found with Mehrgarh suggests an autonomous development of agriculture and breeding. Manufacture of blades, microlithes, polished axes, grinding stones and tools in bone. Importation of Lapis lazuli, marine shells and Persian turquoise of and the Badakhstan.

the Pottery:

Beginning of the apogee of the culture of the Jomon S, characterized by ceramics “with twisted drawings”, produced by a multitude of small communities disseminated in all the Japan and by small clay figurines with human forms (often of women) and animal and called Dogu .
Beginnings of the Ceramic in the Middle East.

Mass of stone weapon in the Middle East.

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