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The succeeding PPNB period (6800-6000 BC) represents further development of the Early Neolithic in the Levant with indications of closer contact and more formal trading of obsidian, turquoise, jadeite, flint.
The general adoption of pottery throughout the regions by 6000 BC with a clear development of local styles reflects emergence of specific modes of decoration and cultural identity.
The Anatolian Mature Neolithic and Catal Huyuk (6500-5400 BC) 1.
www.unm.edu /~gbawden/328-neo2/328-neo2.doc   (1667 words)

  
 The Neolithic Age
Cereal grain farms were established in central Europe by 8000 BC (almost simultaneous with the Mesopotamian "Fertile Crescent" River Valley crop cultivation) with some of the best preserved farming settlements in France and Britain have been positively dated as being in existence prior to 4000 BC.
Remains found in Switzerland dating from around 5000 BC show that even on soft, swampy ground, the builders were able to erect houses by first laying down wooden foundations or on piles going deep into the ground.
This city flourished from about 6250 BC to 5400 BC, and was excavated in part in 1961.
www.white-history.com /hwr3.htm   (2322 words)

  
 Saturnian Cosmology - Gilgamesh
I will use 3114 BC as the 'end' of the "Age of the Gods." This date is from the Maya "year zero" which is the start of Mesoamerican calendars.
The year 3114 BC marks 'The Flood,' to be written about 800 years later in the "Epic of Gilgamesh." It is the flood which generates stories all over the world of survivors in arks or boats or canoes.
In the second millenium BC, when in effect Mercury was the only remaining active planet, his duties (as Thoth) were extended to include creation, and thus his lifetime needed to be counted from the very beginnings.
saturniancosmology.org /gil.php   (16588 words)

  
 Succession Game V: The Empire of Ra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 6840 BC, the Nomads were camping on the banks of the river, near the coast of a great water and near large fields of wheat, when Locutus had another dream.
6600-6200 BC: Child of Thor - Apolyton II After the death of their honoured first leader Locutus,the people of Copán turned to the sea and their Creator Grandparents, Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, they were wise and respected amongst all the Gods.
6620 BC child of Thor(or CoT as he became known to his people), looked around the kingdom of the Mayan’s he had inherited and decided his people needed to work harder, so he increased their food share to help fuel this extra effort.
ctpmodmakers.250free.com /Succession_Games/team2.html   (3881 words)

  
 MATURE NEOLITHIC
 THE MATURE NEOLITHIC OF THE LEVANT AND ANATOLIA (7000-5400 BC)
  The general adoption of pottery throughout the regions by 6000 BC with a clear development of local styles reflects emergence of specific modes of decoration and cultural identity.
Around 6000 BC well-documented environmental disruption (drying) caused breakdown of the Southern Levantine PPNB and most sites were abandoned for 500 years.
www.unm.edu /~gbawden/328-neo2/328-neo2.htm   (1709 words)

  
 Saturnian Cosmology - Chronology
The historical records were written after ca 2200 BC (the first contemporaneous statement of the Shû is in 2197 BC by the son of Yü), but woven in are a confused recollection of a series of earlier Gods.
By 3100 or 3000 BC the culture of Egypt is uniform from Aswan to the delta.
When the Long Count was established in 747 BC by the Toltecs, they added six baktuns (counts of 400 tuns) to a base date of 0.0.0.0, based on the assumption that the year (the tun) had always consisted of 360 days.
saturniancosmology.org /chron.php   (20014 words)

  
 Tony's Home
Year 1 x 288 = 288: 3472 BC - About 5400 years ago the Watson Brake Mound Complex was constructed in North America, and about 5300 years ago, the first of the Five Rulers of China, Fu Xi, discovered the Ho Tu pattern and the 8 trigrams of Fu Xi..
In 883 BC the reign of Ashurnasirpal II in Assyria began, and Assyria ascended in power while Israel began to decline, leading to the defeat of Israel by Assyria around 722 BC.
According to the Kbre Nege'st, the Ark of the Covenant (which may have contained at least part of the Torah) was taken to the Abyssinian Highlands around that time.
www.valdostamuseum.org /hamsmith/SparChron.html   (1212 words)

  
 Ethics of Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites by Sanderson Beck
About 5400 BC the first city established in Mesopotamia was Eridu, which a Sumerian creation story credits with being the first city to emerge from the primeval sea.
By 2500 BC libraries were established at Shuruppak and Eresh, and schools had been established to train scribes for the temple and state bureaucracies as well as to legally document contracts and business transactions.
However, this too failed, and in 2060 BC the glorious city of Ur, starving under siege, was attacked and burned down, a catastrophe the scribes attributed to the wrath of Enlil.
www.san.beck.org /EC3-Sumer.html   (14890 words)

  
 TIMELINE 6th MILLENIUM B.C. page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
The 6th Millennium B.C., from 6000 to 5000 BC, was the Neolithic Period in which cattle were domesticated, many new food plants were cultivated, the earliest settlements of southern Mesopotamia were founded, wine was fermented, and (maybe) women ruled the cultures of the Middle East and beyond.
Also, in Moldivia, a statue, belonging to 4000 B.C., of a pregnant woman clasping her belly was discovered.
By the end of the 4000 BC cities emerged and the first steps of the human civilization were made.
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline6KBC.html   (2303 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There are early Neolithic cultures in SE Anatolia, Syria and Iraq by 8000 BC, and food-producing societies first appear in southeast Europe by 7000 BC, and Central Europe by cal 5500 BC (of which the earliest cultural complexes include the Starcevo-Koros (Cris), Linearbandkeramic, and Vinca).
Early Neolithic farming is limited to a narrow range of crops (both wild and domestic) and the keeping of sheep and goats, but by about 7000 BC it included domestic cows, pigs, permanently or semi-permanently inhabited settlements and the use of pottery.
In the Illyrian Wars of 229 BC and 219 BC, Rome overran the Illyrian settlements in the Neretva river valley and suppressed the piracy that had made the Adriatic unsafe.
koz.vianet.ca /boshis2.htm   (1849 words)

  
 Global Heritage Fund - Site Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Radiocarbon dating indicates that these spectacular ancient images, including hunting scenes, amphibians, felines, guanacos, or llamas, and over 900 human handprints, were painted by semi-nomadic peoples during three distinct eras.
The first, encompassing the period 7400 to 5400 BC, is characterized by dynamic fl, ochre and yellow images.
Scenes from the second period, 5400 - 1500 BC, are predominantly white and depict the dissociation between man and animal.
www.globalheritagefund.org /sites/americas/cueva_a.html   (129 words)

  
 SEA & LAND RAIDERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Philistines had reached Gerar by the time of Abraham (ca 1800 BC), and it was only in the age of Hyksos rulers of the Delta that Canaanite tribes were described as akin to Babylonians and to certain tribes in Egypt.
Annals of Sennacherib (701 BC) state that the Assyrian king remained on the throne as the legitimate king PADI, deposed by king Hezekiah of Judah, because he refused to intervene in the rebellion against Assyrians.
BC were the period of highest prosperity for Ugarit.
www.geocities.com /amuse_amenace/seapeople.htm   (5457 words)

  
 Succession Game V: The Empire of Ra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
6600-6200 BC: Wombat - Apolyton II After the reign of Locutus Apolyton I, the people of Memphis were leaderless, and, with the precepts of Democracy not yet clear in the minds of the people, struggle for control of the nation began, with some bloodied noses, and not terribly-nice words said all round.
The nomad is finally built in Memphis.Due to suspicion of large barbarian forces in the area,the nomad is made to wait inside the city until an escort of 2 spearmen regiments are created to protect the nomad unit on its travels.
5800 BC Gazablanca Apolyton III finally succumbs to years of worrying and stress about the stinking barbarians that roam the land.He dies,but before this leaves a decree to his successor advising that our military should be increased rapidly to counter the barbarian threat to Egypt.
ctpmodmakers.250free.com /Succession_Games/team1.html   (5234 words)

  
 Ataman Hotel - History (The Prehistoric Period)
The first traces of agriculture were found in southern Middle Anatolia, to the west of Cappadocia, in the aceramic period at Hacılar, c.
The Çatalhöyük settlement, located in the eastern part of the same region and founded in approximately 6500 BC., stands out as an unrivalled prehistoric centre of culture.
A statuette depicting the goddess seated on a throne supported on two felines indicates that leopards were in fact her attributive animals.
www.atamanhotel.com /history/prehistoric.html   (605 words)

  
 KEO - Kurdish Art - Architecture
The earliest records of architectural construction are in fact those of the Proto-Neolithic period (9300-8500 BC) at Qermez Dera and Karim Shâr in central Kurdistan, contemporaneous with the oldest strata at Jericho.
During the Halaf Period (6000-5400 BC), construction of houses once more returned to the older, circular plan (called tholoi), abandoning the rectangular, multi-room housing plan of the preceding 2000 years.
These enclosed, rather small, spaces of about 15-25 feet in diameter are believed to have served as single-family units, with rectangular additions to one side to possibly house domestic animals.
www.kurdistanica.com /english/culture/art/architecture/arch-historical.html   (1228 words)

  
 Lippert "The Götschenberg" (A Neolitthic Copper Mine) Book Review by M. O. Baldia
His pollen analysis, focusing on a combination of heterogeneous plants that indicate settlement, suggest the that the first forest clearing occurred around 5800 BC/5000±85 bc.* This date is too early for the archaeological evidence, but coincides with the general Bischofshofen spectrum.
If this dry spell was due to a climatic change that goes beyond the local area, it must be evaluated in relation to culture change in Central and perhaps even North Europe.
Those belonging to the Neolithic layer are a double-pointed copper needle, two large drops (prills), one fragment of sheet-copper, and one pottery crucible fragment.
www.comp-archaeology.org /GotschenbergCopperBookSum.htm   (827 words)

  
 Ancient Alcoholic Beverages Beer - Crystalinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
That beats the previous record for the oldest evidence of brewing, found in Iran and dated at about 5400 BC.
The oldest known Chinese texts, from the Shang dynasty period of 1200 BC to 1046 BC, mention three types of alcoholic drink.
However, solid evidence had been lacking until a Chinese-American team studied potsherds - radiocarbon-dated at 7000 BC to 6600 BC - from the oldest portion of Jiahu, a village from the Neolithic period in Henan province.
www.crystalinks.com /earlyalcohol.html   (433 words)

  
 Wine may have originated in China - The Boston Globe
Previously the oldest evidence of fermented beverages was dated to 5400 BC and was found at the Neolithic site of Hajji Firuz Tepe, in...
Previously the oldest evidence of fermented beverages was dated to 5400 BC and was found at the Neolithic site of Hajji Firuz Tepe, in Iran.
But in a study published in the science journal PNAS this month, Dr. Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania said laboratory tests on pottery jars from the village of Jiahu in Henan province had shown traces of a mixed fermented drink of rice, honey, and either grapes or hawthorne fruit.
www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2004/12/21/wine_may_have_originated_in_china?mode=PF   (293 words)

  
 Fermented beverages may date to 7000 BC - The Boston Globe
Fermented beverages may date to 7000 BC Evidence found in Chinese pottery
The ceramics were dated to about 7000 BC, and the scientists analyzed residue that had collected inside the pots.
In 1990, McGovern was part of a team that found what was then the earliest known chemical evidence of wine, dating to about 3500 BC, from Godin Tepe in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran.
www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/12/07/fermented_beverages_may_date_to_7000_bc   (587 words)

  
 Greek Wine History: The Origins of Wine
It is widely believed that winemaking began in the Neolithic Period (8500-4000 BC).
The first evidence of pottery, an important precondition to the vinification and storage of wine, is dated around 6000 BC.
The wild grape, or Vitis vinifera, is native to coastal areas of Asia minor, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and much of the Mediterranean, including Greece.
www.greekwinemakers.com /czone/history/1origins.shtml   (748 words)

  
 KryssTal : Inventions: 10,000 BC to 4,000 BC
KryssTal : Inventions: 10,000 BC to 4,000 BC Inventions
The domestication of large animals (the beasts of burden) gave human beings enormous power in agriculture, transport and warfare.
Around 4500 BC, human settlements began to band together into cities and states.
www.krysstal.com /inventions_02.html   (928 words)

  
 Math-E-Matics
(1400 BC to 600 BC) - Zoroastrianism, a religion which had an important impact on Judaism, and thus indirectly, on Christianity and Islam.
Earliest known cultivation of the grape, and fermentation of wine 5400 BC [15]
(576 BC to 529 BC) - Under the rule of Cyrus II the Great, the Cyrus Cylinder was issued.
www.math-e-matics.com   (489 words)

  
 KRG, Kurdistan Regional Government
As early as 2000 BC, the vanguards of the Indo-European speaking tribal immigrants, such as the Hittites and the Mittanis (Sindis), had arrived in southwestern Asia.
When the Aryan Medes and Persians arrived on the eastern flanks of the Zagros around 1000 BC, a massive internal migration from the eastern Taurus and northern and central Zagros toward the southern Zagros was in progress.
As early as the 3rd century BC, the "Kurtioi" are reported by the Greek, and later Roman authors (in the Latin form of "Cyrtii") to inhabit as much the southern Zagros (Persis or Pars/Fars) as the central and northern Zagros (Kurdistan proper).
web.krg.org /articles/article_detail.asp?showsecondimage=&RubricNr=101&ArticleNr=40   (5563 words)

  
 Archeon Amusement Park - Amsterdam Hotels
In the beginning of the New Stone Age around 5400 BC with the arrival of the early farmers a new way of life started.
The early Bronze Age which started at about 2000 BC when bronze was introduced as a new material for making tools is also recreated in Archeon with utmost care.
In 55 BC, under the strong leadership of Julius Caesar, the Roman army reached these parts of Europe for the first time.
www.hollandhotels.com /archeon.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Skiing the Cascade Volcanoes: Snowfall and Snowdepth
From the mid 1950's until 1999, this location held the world record for measured snowfall in a single season, and it was the only station in the world to have recorded snowfalls of over 1000 inches in a season.
The contrast between snowfall patterns at Mammoth and locations far to the north in the WA and OR Cascades or the BC Coast Mountains is striking.
The precip map for BC was scanned from the out-of-print Atlas of British Columbia (University of British Columbia Press, 1979), while those for the three US states come from the Spatial Climate Analysis Service (SCAS) at Oregon State University.
www.skimountaineer.com /CascadeSki/CascadeSnow.html   (7371 words)

  
 Creation Science Movement
This other finding is that ‘in 5400 BC everyone alive was either an ancestor of all of humanity, or of nobody alive today.’[ii]
It is not known whether this paper considered population growth, but if it had the date of 5400 BC may be lowered further.
When this is taken into account it ties in very closely with the Biblical account, whereby Noah and his immediate family are ancestors of all of us.
www.csm.org.uk /news.php?viewmessage=14   (611 words)

  
 Seeing the Past: Fetishism and Visual Culture in Later Neolithic South-East Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Summary The term fetish has been used since the sixteenth century to refer to indigenous ‘power objects’, perceived to embody positive supernatural energy, which could be harnessed to protect people, and to bring them good luck, health, prosperity or social well-being.
During this period, it is clear that many aspects of the material world were ascribed a greater visual significance, being modelled into more varied art-forms and highlighted by more innovative and elaborate decoration, ritual performances and special deposits.
The Later Neolithic of Southeast Italy The Later Neolithic dates to between around 5800 and 4100 BC in the Apulia region of Southeast Italy.
traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455 /31/279   (6943 words)

  
 China might be first-ever wine producer [MaltaMedia.com]
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have found evidence of the earliest evidence of winemaking from 7000 BC in northern China.
Their study was published just a few days ago in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS).
Previously the oldest evidence of fermented beverages was dated to 5400 BC at the neolithic site of Hajji Firuz Tepe, in Iran.
www.maltamedia.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=8&num=4679   (122 words)

  
 Starcevo-Koros-Cris: The Central and North European Neolithic/Copper Age Chronology
6400 and 6150 cal BC encouraged the first (North) Balkan – Carpathian Neolithic farmers to occupy the Carpathian Basin as far north as Tisza River Basin, up to the Maros (Mures) or Körös River (Map).
Late Körös (Protovinča) was dated from 5770 to 5230 cal BC.
Therefore, it seems that more refined archaeological excavation methods, combined with careful, context sensitive dating are required, before the internal and external chronology is reasonably well established in eastern Central and Southeast Europe.
www.comp-archaeology.org /Starcevo-Koros-Cris.htm   (1160 words)

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