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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.