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| | Mesopotamia, 8000-2000 B.C. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The West Asian portion of the Timeline therefore employs the common practice of using, without prejudice, the so-called Middle Chronology, where events are dated relative to the reign of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which is defined as being ca. |
 | | 17921750 B.C. By 8000 B.C., agricultural communities are already established in northern Mesopotamia, the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent. |
 | | 80007000 B.C. The first evidence of domesticated grains (wheat and barley) and animals (sheep, goat, pig, and cattle) are found at Jarmo. |
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