9th millennium BC

(10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – other millennia)

Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.

Events

• Circa 9000 BC–Settling on Mediterranean isles started
• Circa 8700 BC–8400 BC–Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by Maglemosian peoples
• Circa 8500 BC–Neolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
• Circa 8350 BC–Neolithic settlement at Jericho
• Circa 8300 BC–Nomadic hunters arrive in England
• Circa 8000 BC–Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
• Circa 8000 BC– Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt was taking place in several regions of the World
• Circa 8000 BC– Long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing Antarctica
• Circa 8000 BC– Ice free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago Antarctica
• Circa 8000 BC– Apollo 1 cave -earliest recorded African stone engravings. Africa
• Circa 8000 BC– Rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming Asia Japan

Environmental changes

• Circa 8000 BC– Agriculture in Mesopotamia
• Circa 8000 BC– Domestication of the pig in China Turkey
• Circa 8000 BC– Domestication of sheep and goats in the Middle East Iraq
• Circa 8000 BC– Evidence of domestication of dogs wolves, Middle East Palestine England
• Circa 8000 BC– Trans-Atlantic trade involving tobacco taking place between Africa and South America?

• Circa 8000 BC– World : Rising Sea
• Circa 8000 BC– World – Cometary showers coincide with a close passage of Venus
• Circa 8000 BC– Antarctica – long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
• Circa 8000 BC– Asia – Japan: rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
• Circa 8000 BC– Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time North America Asia Australia
• Circa 8000 BC– N America, glacial Decline, The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.
• Circa 8000 BC– Atlantis: Is it only a coincidence that Plato will later speak of Atlantis existing prior to this time Plato

Inventions and discoveries

• Circa 8000 BC– Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies Asia Iran
• Circa 8000 BC– Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran Asia
• Circa 8000 BC– Invention of the bow and arrow
• Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods, a three dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory system and medium of exchange
• Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology

Cultural landmarks

Humanity officially enters the Stone Age Total world population may be under 10 million