4760 BC to 4520 BC

4760 BC to 4,520: A mostly pre-historic world timeline including: polar precession, Russia, China, Copper age, and more.

 

4630 BC, Oregon, USA: Mount Mazama(Crater Lake), Cascade Volcanic Arc, partially responsible for Crater Lake. Ejecta 100 km3/ 

 4,600 BC to 3,800 BC: There are archaeological earthworks similar to those at Watson Break in Louisiana in Lowndes county, Mississippi which is carbon dated to this time frame.

~ Multicolored ceramic-ware originating in Russia Reached China. 

~ USA: In Lowndes county of Mississippi. This Vaughan mound site dates well into the Middle Archaic period and is part of the evidence pointing to earthworks being built in Mississippi at this time.

 

4,540 BC: Polar precession at zero. Approximate 26,000 year cycle. Ram

4,500 BC to 2,100 BC: the span of the Grisi state. Grisi began as a Copper Age state.

~ There is substantial evidence that Sri Lanka once was land linked to India, probably much man made, perhaps with help.

~ to 4,000 BC: North America: There was a warm climate episode in this period.

~ upper Egypt(predynastic) began a Copper Age which came to an end 3,000 BC.

~ North America: Kame grave users north of the Ohio River. Kame grave users transitioned to man made mounds. Some say beginning nothern mound building. Kame grave users were traveling the waters  in dugouts and birchbark canoes and making beads of native copper.

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

~ Bad-tibiria: to date, archaeological reports daring of this time to about 2,300 BC for this site. But according to the Sumerian kings List Bad-tibiria was the second(after Eridu) before the Flood.

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

~ to 4,000 BC, North America: Warming climate episode.

~ Upper Egypt(predynastic): Began as a Copper Age state which came to an end about 3200 BC.

~ North America: This year marks the Mid-Archaic Period.    

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.