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.