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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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| 8000 BC |
| | | As the ice cap recedes, hunter-gatherers move up the eastern side of America into Newfoundland and the prairie provinces of Canada | |
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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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| 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. 4000 BC |
| | | Oxen are the first draught animals, in use at this time in the Middle East and in Europe | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | Beer is brewed in Mesopotamia, where barley is an indigenous crop | |
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