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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | The tower at Jericho is the world's earliest surviving fortification | |
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| 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 | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | As temperatures warm, the sea level rises, submerging the Bering land bridge and isolating the Siberian immigrants as the aboriginal Americans | |
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| c. 7000 BC |
| | | Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper - the first tentative step out of the Stone Age | |
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| 7000 BC |
| | | Barley is cultivated in the Middle East | |
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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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