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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | | Needles of bone or ivory are now fine enough to take a thread as thin as horse hair | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Sun-dried bricks are used in the construction of buildings in Jericho | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | The spindle develops naturally in the process of twisting fibres into thread by hand | |
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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. 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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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | Grapes are cultivated in the region of the Caspian see, where the grape vine Vitis vinifera is indigenous | |
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