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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | Catal Huyuk, in Anatolia, is the most extensive surviving example of a neolithic town | |
|  | Catal Huyuk, wall painting
Photograph James & Arlette Mellaart
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design with lasting appeal | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | The neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus has a paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | Pottery fragments of this date survive in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk | |
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| c. 5800 BC |
| | | Fragments of cloth, woven in Catal Huyuk, survive because they are carbonized in a fire | |
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| 5000 BC |
| | | Human groups adapt to the conditions of northern Canada and then Greenland, living mainly as hunters of marine mammals | |
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| c. 5000 BC |
| | | Squash and chili are the first plants to be cultivated in America, in the Tehuácan valley in modern Mexico | |
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| c. 5000 BC |
| | | The Sahara, damp enough for the hippopotamus, supports neolithic communities until it begins to dry up in about 3000 BC | |
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| c. 4400 BC |
| | | The first evidence of a loom comes from this period in Egypt, but some simple method of holding the warp must be as old as weaving | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany | |
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