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	8th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		9th millennium BCE - 8th millennium BCE - 7th millennium BCE
		7227 BC is the supposed date of the fall of Atlantis according to Rudolf Steiner.
		The Ancients (Alterans) of the Stargate universe submerge Atlantis following a losing war with the Wraith species, closely matching the supposed date of the mythical city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/8th_millennium_BC (677 words)

	9th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Circa 8000 BC– Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
		Circa 8000 BC– Antarctica - long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
		Circa 8000 BC– Mesopotamia - Agriculture in Mesopotamia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/9th_millennium_BC (383 words)

	Search Results for "8th ..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		4) Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of and 1st marquess of.
		...Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of and 1st marquess of, 1607-61, Scottish statesman.
		B.C.) QUOTATION: On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, 1 and from his lips drop gentle words.
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	Korona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The alphabetic writing that was adopted from the Phoenicians in the 8th century BC in Greece proper was introduced to Cyprus as late as the early 4th century BC.
		In the period under discussion, and in particular in the 9th century BC we witness the arrival of the Phoenicians in Cyprus, who probably came here from their land (modern Lebanon) because they were harassed by the Assyrians.
		It was reverted to Roman rule in 30 BC and in 22 BC became a Senatorial Province.
	www.korona.com.cy /english/placing/cyprus_history.htm (5737 words)

	Civilization - WebArticles.com
		By the 6th millennium BC, organized and permanent settlements in regions of Africa were producing artifacts of metal to replace prior ones made of stone.
		The earliest settlement in Jericho (9th millennium BC) was a PPNA culture that eventually gave way to more developed settlements later, which included in one early settlement (8th millennium BC) mud-brick houses surrounded by a stone wall, having a stone tower built into the wall.
		By the 4th millennium BC, in Nippur we find, in connection with a sort of ziggurat and shrine, a conduit built of bricks, in the form of an arch.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=108 (2283 words)

	MSN Encarta - Agriculture
		The dates of domesticated plants and animals vary with the regions, but most predate the 6th millennium bc, and the earliest may date from 10,000 bc.
		The llama and alpaca were domesticated in the Andean regions of South America by the middle of the 3rd millennium bc.
		According to carbon dating, wheat and barley were domesticated in the Middle East in the 8th millennium bc; millet and rice in China and Southeast Asia by 5500 bc; and squash in Mexico about 8000 bc.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572257/Agriculture.html (1779 words)

	Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the early 3rd millennium BC metal tools began to be used in the Aegean islands, revolutionizing the existing modus vivendi.
		Although the texts of Crete dating from before the arrival of the Mycenaeans on the island have yet to be deciphered, there are serious indications that during the first half of the second millennium BC Cretan society had many of the characteristics of a complex society.
		The archaeological evidence and the texts, the Linear B tablets, reveal that the Mycenaean kingdoms of the 15th and 14th centuries BC were states with an army, a navy, a bureaucratic system, governmental hierarchy, division of labour and social stratification.
	www.ypai.gr /atlas/xronologio_uk.asp?arithmos_thesis=3 (1133 words)

	Aegean Maritime Museum, Mykonos of Cyclades Islands, Hotels, Accommodation, Lodgings Travel Guide of Greece. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At Franchthi Cave in the Peloponnese tools dating to the 8th millennium BC were found, made of obsidian (a kind of hard volcanic glass) from Melos, showing that this material must have been transported to the Peloponnese in some sort of boat.
		For the 1st millennium BC the evidence’ that has come to light is more extensive and definite, thanks to written records and the representations of ships on coins and vases and in paintings, relief’s, sculpture, mosaics and incised works.
		BC the two important maritime commercial centres of the ancient world, Delos and Rhodes, which had brought such lustre to the nautical history of the Aegean, came to an end.
	www.gotogreece.gr /cyclades/myk/aegean/history.shtml (7846 words)

	Interesting Dates of Aegen Maritime Museum - Mykonos - Cyclades - Holidays in Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		8th millennium BC Evidence of the transport of obsidian by ship from Melos to the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese.
		BC Ameinocles the Corinthian designs and builds the first trireme.
		338 BC Philip ÉÉ King of Macedonia organises the League of Corinth (all of Greece except for the Spartans).
	holidays-in-greece.com /cyclades/myk/aegean/dates.htm (361 words)

	Agriculture History and Information - One of the Best Sites in the World!
		According to carbon dating, wheat and barley were domesticated in the Middle East in the 8th millennium bc; millet and rice in China and southeastern Asia by 5500 bc; and squash in Mexico about 8000 bc.
		In Mesopotamia in the 3d millennium bc a funnel-like device was attached to the plow to aid in seeding, and other early forms of drills were used in China.
		In the 1st millennium bc, after the city was established, however, agriculture started a capitalistic development that reached a peak in the Christian era.
	www.adbio.com /science/agri-history.htm (7569 words)

	Jericho City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The earliest occupation of the site, dating from the 10th millennium BC, consists of remains of the NATUFIAN culture and includes what may have been a shrine.
		During the 8th millennium BC the site was greatly expanded under a culture known as the Aceramic, or Prepottery Neolithic, and a wall standing 5.2 m (17 ft) high was erected around the settlement.
		In the ceramic stage of the Neolithic (6th-4th millennium BC) the dwellers lived in pits and produced a characteristic painted pottery.
	www.palestinehistory.com /jerico.htm (356 words)

	PRE-INDO-EUROPEANS : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orange is the Lengyel culture, purple the Vincha culture, red the Cucuteni culture and yellow the western part of the Yamna culture.
		The Baltic region was penetrated a bit later, around 3500 BC, and there was also a delay in settling the Hungarian plain.
		It was this Mesolithic population that was in situ 7000 BC when the Neolithic culture first began to enter Europe from Anatolia.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Pre-Indo-Europeans (1479 words)

	Estonian Institute www.einst.ee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kunda culture belongs to the middle stone age, or Mesolithic period (in Estonia from the middle of the 8th millennium to the 4th millennium BC).
		Their ethnic origins are still unclear, though they probably arrived from the south and south-east and spoke a tongue belonging to some early European language group.
		Before the Finno-Ugrics gained dominance in the region, a cultural mixture took place in the latter half of the 3rd millennium with warlike, nomadic tribes from the south.
	www.einst.ee /factsheets (365 words)

	History of pottery in Palestine - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The history of pottery in Palestine starts in Neolithic times, around the 8th millennium BC, when the art of pottery was introduced into the region.
		The potter's wheel was introduced in the later Chalcolithic period, in the 5th millennium BC.
		It began at approximately the 12th century BC and began to disappear towards the end of the 11th century BC.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/History_of_pottery_in_Palestine (2288 words)

	History
		Therefore it was only natural that a great civilisation flowered in Cyprus beginning as early as the 8th millennium BC, when stone was the only material used either for weapons or utensils.
		The discovery of copper which occurred in the 3rd millennium marked the turning point in the history of the island which gradually turned it into a bone of contention among the more powerful neighbours.
		Destructive earthquakes occur during the 1st century B.C. and the 1st A.D. causing a great loss and cities were rebuilt.
	www.namasthenri.com /cyprus/history.html (1747 words)

	The Ultimate 9th millennium BC - American History Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Circa 8000 BC– N America, glacial Decline, The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.
		Circa 8000 BC– Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran Asia
		Circa 8000 BC– Invention of the bow and arrow
	www.historymania.com /american_history/9000_BC (421 words)

	About Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the newcomers knew how to work with copper they soon moved to the so-called copperbelt of the island, that is the foothills of the Troodos mountains. This movement reflects the increased interest in the raw material that was going to be so closely connected with Cyprus for several centuries afterwards.
		This name (o-pe-le-ta-u) is in the Greek language but it is written in the Cypriot syllabary that remained in use down to the 3rd century BC. The alphabetic writing that was adopted from the Phoenicians in the 8th century BC in Greece proper was introduced to Cyprus as late as the early 4th century BC.
		During the civil wars, Cyprus was briefly given to Cleopatra of Egypt by Julius Caesar and later by Mark Anthony. It was reverted to Roman rule in 30 BC and in 22 BC became a Senatorial Province.
	www.cyprus.gov.cy /cyphome/govhome.nsf/LookupIDs/C2B15E84EAE32227C2256B6B003B0F37?OpenDocument&languageNo=1 (1393 words)

	8th millennium BC - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Circa 7500 BC– Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are the first humans to reach Ireland.
		Circa 7500 BC–Howick house in Northumberland, England is constructed.
		Circa 7600 BC is when The Changelings found The Dominion in the fictional Star Trek universe.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/8000_BC (684 words)

	Atlas: Fire and burning in West Africa Holocene savanna palaeoenvironment. Anthropogenic and natural processes in ...
		Ounjougou - phase 1 (10th — beginning of the 9th millennium BC) After a favourable climatic period, characterised by relatively dense and diversified Palaeolithic occupations, the arid Ogolian begins locally around 23000 years BP and is represented at Ounjougou by a significant depositional and archaeological hiatus.
		It is not until the Holocene and the return of humid climatic conditions, beginning in the 10th millennium BC, that it is possible to again observe evidence of human occupation.
		Ounjougou - phase 2 (8th millennium BC) In a depositional context indicating a strong hydrologic capacity, the fill of a large channel shows finely bedded mud alternating with levels relatively rich in charcoal.
	atlas-conferences.com /cgi-bin/abstract/camu-05 (1829 words)

	Learn more about Timeline of invention in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded, version of the invention should be used here.
		8th millennium BC Domestication of farm animals (sheep and goats, Persia)
		22nd century BC Babylonian calendar modifications to account for the precession of the stars
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ti/timeline_of_invention.html (739 words)

	Archaelogy of Carthage
		They inhabited central Tunisia in the Capsian period- the 9th or the 8th millennium BC (Capsa was the ancient name of Gafsa).
		From at least the 8th c BC and traditionally earlier (1186 BC), port areas such as Utica and Carthage were settled by these near Eastern navigators and traders from cities such as Tyre.
		The Semitic Phoenicians had risen to power in the area of Tyre in the 11th c BC when the Hittite empire to the north relaxed its grip on the eastern Mediterranean Canaanite areas.
	vergil.classics.upenn.edu /comm2/places/carthage.html (1301 words)

	The Prehistoric Society - Book Review
		In a subsequent paper Astruc examines the 7th millennium BC chipped stone industry from Khirokitia.
		However we may note, that the Pinus (pine) increase in samples of around 5700 BC may not be due to the local expansion of Pinus, but rather an indicator of hardwood depletion around the site and the import of wood from the Troodos Mountains where softwoods grew.
		The 9th millennium BC Cypriot lithic industry shows important similarities with cultures of the Syro-Anatolian region.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /prehistoric/reviews/04_11_guilaine.htm (2300 words)

	The Spread of Cattle Domestication among the Mande speaking people
		Over the past decade in Africa that illustrates that until the second millennium BC the Inland Niger Delta was sparsely populated (McIntosh and McIntosh 1981,1986).
		These ceramics were of Sudanese inspiration and date back to the 7th millennium BC This pottery was used from the Ennedi to Hoggar.
		By the 8th millennium BC Saharan-Sudanese pottery was used in the Air (Roset 1983).
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bay/7051/man1.htm (3102 words)

	Black Sea - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They are based on different theories about the level the sweetwater lake had reached by the time the Mediterranean Sea was high enough to flow over the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus.
		On the other hand, a study of the sea floor on the Aegean side shows that in the 8th millennium BCE there was a large flow of fresh water out of the Black Sea (New Scientist, 4 May 2002, p.
		In 1997, William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University published a theory that a massive flood through the Bosporus occurred about 5600 BC.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Black_Sea (927 words)

	Knossos, Crete, Greece
		Excavations have showed that there was a settlement here in the 8th Millennium BC, perhaps even before that, and that a palace stood here as early as in the 4th Millennium BC.
		The Achaeans invaded in the 15th century BC and it was their culture that brought the Minoan civilization to its height.
		They spoke Greek, had Greek gods and used Knossos as their canter It was also they who used the so called Linear B script, which has been found on clay tablets.
	www.in2greece.com /english/places/historical/islands/knossos.htm (944 words)

	Hebrew language
		This language family probably originated in northeast Africa, and began to diverge around the 8th millennium BC, though there is much debate about the actual date.
		At the end of the 3rd millennium BC the ancestral languages of Aramaic, Ugaritic and other various Canaanite languages were spoken in the Levant alongside the influential dialects of Ebla and Akkad.
		Although the texts of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) were written down relatively late, perhaps as late as 500 BC, it is apparent that some of them date back to as early as the 9th century BC.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/h/he/hebrew_language.html (4846 words)

	Glassware and Ceramic Museum /Virtual Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Recent archaeological excavations at Ganj-j-Dareh in the area of Kermanshah have vertified the fact that the oldest examples of ceramics in Iran go back to the 8th millennium Bc, Glass has been made for over four thousand years.
		It is thought to have been first produced in Western, Asia.Initially as a glazefrom somewhere in the 3rd millennium Bc.It began to be produced as an in dependent substance.It was not until the late 16 th and 15th centuries Bc.
		That its use as vessels appears.We have evidence of a glass industry in the region of ancient Elam which flourished in the 13th century Bc.
	www.glasswaremuseum.ir /virtual/vir4.html (135 words)

	The Rock Engravings of Gobustan
		The most ancient petroglyphs have been identified as belonging to the 12-8th century B.C. However, it is assumed that life existed here even earlier and that Gobustan was one of the cradles of civilization.
		Since the end of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium B. C.) and later, hunting was predominantly an occupation of the tribal nobility.
		Due to decreasing importance of hunting in the life of local people, the ritual furrows on the drawings representing animals were gradually losing its meaning and vanished in the passage of time.
	donsmaps.com /gobustan.html (3724 words)

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