2,660 BC to 2,400 BC

 2,660 BC to 2,400 BC:The prehistorical, archaeological, climatological and: sea levels, Egypt, Mississippi, Canada, Mesopotamia, Sahara, cooler wetter weather, North America.

 

2613 BC to 2498 BC: Egypt: Fourth Dynasty.

 2,600 BC: The Mississippi River drainage area of the U.S. contains abundant evidence of elaborate ceremonial complex, ceramics, cultigens, and mound burial attests the Louisiana Dept of Culture personal.

~ North America: Deptford Culture(?) An elaborate ceremonial complex, ceramics, mound burial, cultigens. (800 BC to 78 AD?)

~ Egypt: Great Pyramid of Giza construed.(?)

~ Sahara: A badger(?) was eating maple, willow, woodbine, buckwheat grass and reeds in the Sahara.

2540 BC: Egypt: Great pyramid of Giza extent.

 

2,500 BC: and onward people of Ireland probably experienced a period of cooler, wetter weather. Sea levels were close to those of 2000 AD.

~ Northern hemisphere began cooler, wetter weather similar to 2000 AD. 

~ Sea levels close to those of 2000 AD. 

~ Evidence of metalworking in Ireland. 

~  North America(Fagan): Sea levels close to those 2,000 AD.

~ Art: Height of Sumerian/Akkadian art.

~ Thailand: Bronze tools in Thailand.

~ Metal working reaches Indus Valley.

~ Peru: Cotton cultivated in Peru.

~ Mesopotamia: Disappearance of the city of Agadi; end of Akkadian civilization in Mesopotamia. 

~ Canada: Majorville Cairn medicine wheel of Alberta.

~ t0 onward Ireland experienced  a climate change, a period of cooler, wetter weather.  

~ to about 1,000 BC, North America: Middle Woodland culture extent.

2494 BC to 2345 BC: Egypt: 5th Dynast

2,404 BC to 2345 BC, Egypt: 5th dynasty

2,400 BC: to l,000 BC: North America: Middle Woodland culture Period extent.

 2,400 BC to 2350 BC: Lugalzaggisi, king of Uruk, defeated the Lagash empire and became King of the Countries.

~ ? Cessair, a daughter of Noah and Bamba arrived on Bantry Bay, Ireland in what is now Co. cork 40 days before a flood, it has been said.

 

 

 

 

 

 2,800 BC to 2660 BC: 

2,800 BC, Ireland: Copper and gold were both mined and worked at the same time and places on the island.

 

2790 BC, Egypt: Imhotep(he who comes in peace) was a "chancellor" to the Pharaoh Djoser. He was favored by early Egyptian intellectuals.

 

 

 

2745 BC: Egypt: Menes, king of upper Egypt.

2,700 BC: Evidence of plants selected and altered by men for their use; that is anthropogenic plants of cultigens date to this time.

2,600 BC, US: The Mississippi River drainage area contains abundant evidence of elaborate ceremonial complex, ceramics, mound burials, and cultigens attests the Louisiana Dept of Culture personnel.

 

 

3560 BC to 3320 BC

 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,520 BC to 4,280 BC

 4,520 BC to 4,280 BC: A mostly prehistory timeline: including: Copper Age, Sri Lanka, climate warming, Ohio River, and more.

4,500 BC to 4,000 BC: Warming Climate episode in North America.

~ Upper Egypt (predynastic) began a Copper Age state which came to an end about 3,200 BC.

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

~ Marks what has been called the midpoint of the North America Mid-Archaic period.

~ At about this time the state of Bad-tibira was started and ended in about 2,300 BC.

~ At about this time Mari started as a copper using state and ended in 1759 BC. 

~ Mid-Archaic Period in  North America.

~ 2,100 BC: was the life span of the Grisi state, which began as A Copper Age State.

~ There is substantial evidence that Sri Lanka was linked to India by this time. The link was a man-made causeway.

~ Pre-dynastic Upper Egypt began a Cooper Age which came to an end about 3,000 BC.

~ Kame Grave users north of the Ohio River North America. Kame grave users were transitional to some man made burial mounds. Kame grave users were traveling the waters in dug-outs and birchbark canoes and making beads of native copper.

~ This date marks what has been called the midpoint of the North America Mid Archaic period.

~ Bad-tibiria: According to the Sumerian Kings list Bad-tibiria was the second, after Eridu before the Flood. However, archaeological evidence dates it only to this date, so far.

~ About this date Mari started as A Copper Using state and then ended in 1759 BC.

4,400 BC: The Sahara was damp enough for the hippopotami. It supported neolithic communities until it became too dry in about 3,000 BC.

~ The first evidence of a loom comes from this period in Egypt, but some simple method of holding the warp must be as old as weaving. 

~ A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Longue off the southern coast of Brittany. 

~ Oxen are the first draught animals in use at this time in Middle East and in Europe.

~ In Mesopotamia, and the grass steppes of Southern Russia, oxen are used to pull loads on heavy sledges.`

~ New zealand: Volcanic eruption at Macauley Island in the Kermadec Islands zone. Various eruptions between about 8,300 and 6,300 years ago. Approximate ejecta volume 100km3.

4,330 BC: Historical grand solar minima.

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

4,330 BC: Historical grand minima solar.

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

4,236 BC: First date in the Egyptian calendar.

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.