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c. 8000 BC
 
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The spindle develops naturally in the process of twisting fibres into thread by hand     
c. 8000 BC
 
  
Any community growing and storing grain, surrounded by other groups dependent on gathering food, has a new and urgent need for protection from its neighbours     
c. 8000 BC
 
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The tower at Jericho is the world's earliest surviving fortification      
c. 8000 BC
 
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Humans cross from eastern Siberia to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, according to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture      
c. From 8000 BC
 
  
The Neolithic Revolution continues to take place, at different times around the world, as people form settled communities, living by agriculture and the breeding of animals instead of hunting and gathering     
8000 BC
 
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As the ice cap recedes, hunter-gatherers move up the eastern side of America into Newfoundland and the prairie provinces of Canada       
c. 8000 BC
 
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As temperatures warm, the sea level rises, submerging the Bering land bridge and isolating the Siberian immigrants as the aboriginal Americans       
c. 8000 BC
 
   
With the end of the most recent ice age, and the withdrawal of the ice sheet, there are drastic changes of climate and ecology in every region      
c. 7000 BC
 
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Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper - the first tentative step out of the Stone Age       
7000 BC
 
  
Barley is cultivated in the Middle East