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| c. 35,000 to 14,000 years ago |
| | | The Upper Palaeolithic era is the final section of the Old Stone Age, lasting until the Neolithic Era | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | The ending of the most recent ice age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile, both prompts and enables humans to develop permanent settlements | |
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| c. From 8000 BC |
| | | The Neolithic period (New Stone Age) includes any settled human community still using exclusively stone tools | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Human communities in the Middle East cultivate crops and domesticate animals, in the Neolithic Revolution | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Wheat is grown in the Middle East - the first cereal cultivated by man | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Emmer and Einkorn are the two types of wheat cultivated as the first crops in the Neolithic Revolution | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | A settlement at Jericho subsists mainly by the cultivation of wheat, one of a small number of communities known to be doing so by this time | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Sheep are the first farm animals of which evidence of domestication survives, from a settlement in northern Iraq | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Jericho, often quoted as the first town, grows into a settlement covering ten acres | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Sun-dried bricks are used in the construction of buildings in Jericho | |
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