4040 BC to 3800 BC

4040 BC to 3800 BC: Prehistory and archaeology  timeline including: mega fauna, Ireland, North America, Mississippi, Copper Age, Near East, and Mississippi.

 

4330 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima.4230 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima.

4330 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima.4230 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima.

4,300 BC, Japan: Kilkai caldera super volcano erupted in the Ryukyu Islands ejecting 150 cubic km of material.

4236 BC: First date on Egyptian calendar.

4,200 BC: Susa began as a Copper Age state and ended in 230 BC.

 4,000 BC: By this time new people may have been arriving in Ireland and finding Irish people already there. By this time there was also new animal and grain agriculture flourishing on the Island. Strong evidence of land clearing for agriculture in the southwest of the country.

~ Ice Age or mega-fauna still found in NA.

~ to 1800 BC: called the Archaic Mound-building period in North America. Eleven mounds near Monroe, Louisiana show evidence of being begun about 4,000 BC and are seen as having some relation to Poverty Point earthworks in West Carroll Parish. May have begun on the lower Mississippi in what is now the U.S. state of Louisiana

~ to 2,000 BC: Fir Blog(Invernic?) in Ireland according to some documentary evidence.  

~ to 2,800 BC: Watson Brake people in Mississippi drainage area.

~ to 400 AD: Mound building time before major changes in to Mississippian culture of North America.

~ Hopewellian cultures such as: Copena, Crab, Orchard, Goodall Focus, Havana Hopewell, Laurel Complex, Swift, Creek, etc. remained strong from before 4,000 BC and began a rapid decline about 400 AD.

~ to 2,300 BC: The Copper Age political entity of Kish existed.

~ to 2,500 BC: The Copper Age political entity of Lagash existed.

~ to 2,000 BC: The Copper Age political entity of Ur existed.

~ to 3,100 BC: The Copper Age political entity of Uruk existed.

~ Yang-shao rice farming is a culture in China.

~ Watson Break earthworks site occupied.

~ Ice Age or mega-fauna still found in North America.

~ Increase in mean annual temperature and decrease in rainfall in North America. This very true of the Mississippi valley.

~ Thailand: Bronze used.

~ Ireland: Abundant evidence of farming, trade (axe-heads, etc.),

~ Ireland: Megalithic building evident in sites such as New Grange in Co. Meath; See Lough Gur in Co. Limerick; and Knowth in the Boyne Valley.

~ Ã simple hand-held plough is in use in Egypt and Mesopotamia at least 1,000 years before a heavier version was pulled by oxen.

~ Beer is brewed in Mesopotamia where barley is an indigenous crop.

~ Papua New Guinea: Taro, probably the earliest cultivated plant there, has an edible root that needs a be mashed with mortar and pestle.

~ Grapes are cultivated in the region of the Caspian Sea, where the grape vine, vitis vinifera, is indigenous.

~ Ireland: Evidence of increased land clearance for agriculture in the south west of the island.

~ to 3,500 BC: Near East: smaller Ubaid villages gave way to fewer, but larger settlements. The Uruk culture emerged marked by mass-produced pottery made on a foot wheel.

~ Birth of the Crab Nebula as the result of the explosion of a massive star.

~ Multi-colored ceramic ware originating in Russia, reached China.

~ Iron in North Africa by this date was rejected by Egyptians as unclean.

~ By this time the Persians had probably recognized themselves as a people. 

~ U.S.: Eleven mounds near Monroe, Louisiana show evidence of being begun this time and are seen as having some relationship to Poverty Point earthworks site in west Carroll parish.

~ China: Yang-shao rice farming and cultivation.

~ Ireland: Evidence of farming strong. Evidence of trade and plenty of axe heads. Megalithic building evident at New Grange in County Meath. Check Lough Gur in County Limerick, Knowth, and Boyne Valley/

~ 4,000 BC: Ice Age mega-fauna still found in N.A.

~ to 1,800 BC: Called the Archaic Mound-Building period in North America. Eleven mounds near Monroe, Louisiana show evidence of being begun about 4,000 BC and are seen as having some relationship to Poverty Point earthworks in West Carroll Parish, of Louisiana.

~ Beer is brewed in Mesopotamia, where barley is an indigenous crop.

~ to 2,000 BC: Fir Blog (Invernic) in Ireland.

~ A simple hand-held plough was used in Egypt and Mesopotamia, at least 1,000 years before a heavier version was pulled by oxen.?

~ Papua New Guinea: Taro was cultivated here by this time and is probably the earliest plant cultivated here. Taro is a edible root which was mashed with mortar and pestle.

3,800 BC, Iran: Copper is extracted by smelting at various sites.

3,500 BC, Crete: Olives are cultivated and will provide, in the form of olive oil, one of the main staples of Mediterranean trade.

~ Sumerian script was being written.

~ to 1500 AD, North America: Strong evidence of  "mound building" carried on in Mississippi River region and contiguous areas.

~ to 2,100 BC: The Copper Age social entity of Isin existed.

~ to 1,800 BC: The Copper Age political entity of Assur existed.

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

3,500 BC: Sumerian script was being written.

~ to 1,500 BC: Strong evidence of mound building carried on in Mississippi river region and contiguous areas.

~ to 2,100 BC: The Copper Age social entity of Isin existed.

~ to 1,800 BC: The Copper Age political entity of Assur existed. 

~ Multi-colored ceramic ware originating in Russia, reached China.

3,200 BC: Neolithic culture begins in ancient Near East.

~ Near East: First stone structures at Jericho 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 was active in Lebanon and shared around the Mediterranean sea and beyond probably to the Irish isle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,000 BC to 4760 BC

 5000 BC to 4760 BC: A mostly historical timeline including: China, Eridu, Ireland and Mississippi. And Japan, Russia, the Middle East and Brittany as well more.

 

5000 BC: Copper was mined in and around Isle Royal on lake Superior in North America at this time.

~ Just before this time the people of Earth may have experienced some devastating  flooding.

~ In about this year Mari started as a copper using state; a state which ended in 1759 BC.

~ In this year the state of Bad-tibira was started and came to an end in about 2300 BC.

~ Grisi became a Copper Age state about this time and ended about 2100 BC.

~ Nippur also began as a Copper Age state  about 5,000 BC and came to an end near 2450 BC.

~ There is substantial evidence that Sri Lanka had a land link to India at this time.

~ Upper Egypt (predynastic) began as a Copper Age state  and then came to an end about end about 3200 BC.

~ Marks Mid-Archaic Period in North America.

~ Kame grave users north of the Ohio river of N.A. were transitioning to man made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in dugout and birch-bark canoes, and making beads if native copper.

~ The Mississippi valley of N.A. had an increase in mean annual temperature and a decrease in rainfall at this time.

~ Ireland: Evidence of land clearance for agriculture has been found in the southwest of the island dating to this time. 

~ to 4,000 BC: Eridu: painted pottery made on slow wheels and more mud brick temples constructed at the site.

~ China: farm communities along the Wang-ho river.

~ There are cities in Mesopotamia by this time.

~ After this date Sumerians are were making their mark in the Fertile Crescent and greatly affecting the Akkadians and Egyptians.

~ Irrigation farming began ti the Fertile Crescent prior to this date.

~ Grisi began as a Copper Age state about this time and ended about 2,100 BC.

~ Village and farming communities were thriving along the Hwang-ho River in China.

~ to 4,000 BC: In the Near East pottery was made on slow wheels and also painted.

~ At the site of Eridu in the Near East more and more mud-brick temples were constructed.

~ Opium was used by the people in lower Mesopotamia.

~ Squash and chile are thought to be the first plants to be cultivated in America, Tehuacan valley of what is now modern Mexico.

~ Cultivation of food crops had begun in Mesopotamia.

~ Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest from Alaska to California developed a a fishing economy with salmon as the staple. They also worked and traded large, circular objects of copper.

~ In the Old Copper culture of the Great Lakes area the metal was hammered into various tools, ornaments, etc.

~ Were there some nasty, near devastating events around this time?

~ to ca 500 AD, North America: Native Americans used copper to art, weapons, and tools in the Great Lakes region. The people of this Old Copper culture traded widely.

~ Fomorians in and around Ireland.

~ to 3,000 BC, North America: There was a 2,000 year decline in population (Fagan).

~ North America: Copper was smelted around and on Isle Royal on Lake Michigan. Copper was mined at this time. Rich native copper was probably collected even earlier. On Isle Royal a pictograph of a ship which looks very capable of a sea voyage has been found and recorded.

 

4,900 BC: By about this dare in the neolithic period the ceramic using Narva culture was extent.

     

 

5,500 BC: Labrador: Fidel found a bird bone whistle along with socketed bone points and much more in an artificial mound in 1975. I that year a body was found face down in a pit beneath the mound. walrus tusks and large quarts knives were found in the same mound. 

~ to 500 AD: North America: Oshara Tradition, a Southwestern Tradition arises in north-central Mexico, the San Juan Basin, the Rio Grand Valley. Southern Colorado, southeastern Utah, US.

5,400 BC: The state of Eridu was started. It lasted to about 500 BC. The city of Eridu came to be called Sumeria's first city.

5,300 BC: Mesopotamia: A dated stone tablet with pictographic writing was found at Kish.

4900 BC, Estonia: Narva culture ceramics dated to about this period of the neolithic.