The 8th millennium BC spanned the years 8000 BC to 7001 BC (c. 10 ka to c. 9 ka). In chronological terms, it is the second full millennium of the current Holocene epoch and is entirely within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) phase of the Early Neolithic .

8,000 b.c. The Neolithic Revolution and an agriculture way of life is discovered in the Fertile Crescent/Middle Eastern area. Cows and sheep were domesticated and crops where manipulated and tended.

By 8000 B.C., agricultural communities are already established in northern Mesopotamia, the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent. Early in the sixth millennium B.C., farming communities, relying on irrigation rather than rainfall, settle ever further south …

Walls of Jericho, massive stone walls surrounding an ancient Neolithic settlement in Jericho, built about 8000 bce. These walls, at least 13 feet (4 metres) in height and backed by a watchtower or redoubt some 28 feet tall, were intended to protect the settlement and its …

Hierakonpolis in the south, the largest Predynastic settlement known, is the center of political control. The. (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.), one of the most dynamic and innovative periods in Egyptian culture.

ca. 8000 B.C. American Archaic cultures are those that occur between Paleoindian hunter groups and the peoples who have realized some combination of pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology.

5 days ago · c. 8000 BCE The ending of the most recent ice age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile, both prompts and enables humans to develop permanent settlements Go to Neolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)

Of all the time periods covered in the AP World History curriculum, Foundations (8000 BCE - 600 CE) spans the largest number of years. It begins with an important Marker Event - the Neolithic Revolution - and ends after the fall of three major classical civilizations - Rome in the Mediterranean region, Han China, and the Gupta Empire of India .

Jan 12, 2018 · Studying Çatalhöyük has given researchers a better understanding of the transition from a nomadic life of hunting and gathering to an agriculture lifestyle. Archaeologists have unearthed more than...

In the "Fertile Crescent" of Mesopotamia in the Middle East, the Neolithic Revolution began between 10,000 BCE and 8,000 BCE. In the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia, this change occurred around 8000 BCE. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this process didn't occur until 2500 BCE.