3,560 BC to 3,320 BC: An archaeological, pre-history, and history timeline. A work in progress. Includes cuneiform writing, Ireland, Mayan, and Phoenician.
3,500 BC: Sumerian script was being written.
~ to 1,500 AD: Strong evidence of "mound building" carried on in the Mississippi River region and contiguous areas. Mound-building had begun at Watson Break.
~ to 2,100 BC: The Copper Age social entity of Isin existed.
~ to 1,800 BC: The Copper Age political entity of Assur existed.
~ North America: Watson Break earthworks site dates to about this time. The site was abandoned about 2,800 BC. Watson Break is an archaeological site in what is now Ouachita Parish Louisiana, USA.
~ Multi-colored ceramic ware originating in Russia, reached China.
~ Oil is cultivated in Crete and will provide in the form of olive oil, one of the main staples of Mediterranean trade.
~ Ireland: Strong evidence of wide spread agriculture by this time.
3,400 BC: Burial mounds in Labrador.
3,400 BC to 3,200 BC, Labrador: Burial mounds existed.
~ Neolithic culture began in the Near East.
~ Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.
3,250 BC, Switzerland?: A Neolithic herdsman dies near Brenner Pass and is well preserved in ice, to become in 1991, by far the earliest human to be seen clothed in every day fashion and carrying implements of his trade and life.
3,200 BC, far north east and west Atlantic?: Kame grave people and perhaps red Ocher people were making pottery and putting copper beads into man made mounds.
3,100 BC: The invention of writing marks the transition, in academic terms, from prehistory to history.
~ Egypt: Egyptian hieroglyphic develops at this time.
~ Writing is developed at Sumer, as cuneiform on clay tablets
3372 BC: Is the first date of the Mayan calendar.
3,300 BC: Ireland: New Grange, north of Dublin, had been built by this time. Built into it was knowledge of the winter solstice
3,250 BC: Italy/Switzerland: A neolithic herdsman died in the Brenner Pass and is so well preserved as to become by 1991, by far the earliest human to be seen in his everyday life clothes and with implements.
3,200 BC: Neolithic culture began in ancient Near East.
~ Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.
~ Kame grave people and, perhaps, red ocher people were making pottery and putting copper beads into man made mounds.
~ to 539 BC: Phoenician culture active in Lebanon, shared around the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, at least as far as the Irish island.
3,100 BC: Upper and Lower Egypt are united into a single kingdom, inaugurating the first Egyptian dynasty.
~ Writing is developed at Sumer as cuneiform script on clay tablets.
~ The Egyptian hieroglyphic script develops at much the same time as the Sumerian cuneiform.
~ The invention of writing marks the transition in academic terms from prehistory to history.