Capsian culture flourishes in modern-day Tunisia
The Capsian culture was a Mesolithic and Neolithic culture centered in the Maghreb that lasted from about 8,000 to 2,700 B.C.E.
Capsian culture flourishes in modern-day Tunisia Read more
The Capsian culture was a Mesolithic and Neolithic culture centered in the Maghreb that lasted from about 8,000 to 2,700 B.C.E.
Capsian culture flourishes in modern-day Tunisia Read more
Archaeologists have long debated what caused the Neolithic Revolution, when prehistoric human beings gave up the nomadic life, founded villages and began to farm the land.
Humans begin living in large villages, perhaps in modern-day Turkey Read more
The earliest pottery ever found in the Western Hemisphere, radiocarbon-dated 8,000 years old, has been excavated in the Amazon basin of Brazil, near Santarém, providing evidence to overturn the assumption that the tropical forest region was too poor in resources to have supported a complex prehistoric culture.
Humans of ancient Brazil independently invent pottery Read more
The area surrounding Iguazu Falls was inhabited 10,000 years ago by the hunter-gatherers of the Eldoradense culture.
Al-Magar was a prehistoric culture of the Neolithic whose epicenter lied in modern-day southwestern Najd in Saudi Arabia. Al-Magar is possibly one of the first cultures in the world where widespread domestication of animals occurred.
The Al-Magar civilization emerges in modern-day Saudi Arabia Read more
The first traces of people living in the Fraser Valley date from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Sto:lo called this area, their traditional territory, S’ólh Téméxw were highly mobile hunter-gatherers.
Sto:lo culture emerges in modern-day British Columbia Read more
The Qaraoun culture is a culture of the Lebanese Stone Age around Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley.
Qaraoun culture flourishes in modern-day Lebanon Read more
Archaeological excavations starting in the 1840s C.E. have revealed human settlements dating to 10,000 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia that indicate that the fertile conditions of the land between two rivers allowed an ancient hunter-gatherer people to settle in the land, domesticate animals, and turn their attention to agriculture.
The first settlements in Mesopotamia begin to form Read more
The earliest archaeological evidence suggests that cultures existed in Burma as early as 11,000 B.C.E. The Anyathian, Burma’s Stone Age, existed at a time thought to parallel the lower and middle Paleolithic in Europe.
The Anyathian culture emerges in modern-day Myanmar Read more
The Aónikenk people, better known by the exonym Tehuelche, are a group of indigenous peoples of Patagonia. They are widely believed to be the basis for the Patagones described by European explorers.
The Aónikenk people emerge in modern-day Argentina Read more