Spread of agriculture to Europe
5,000 BCE* · Event
Farming reaches the Mediterranean and Danube basin from the Near East.
On these timelines: Master
Around 5000 BCE
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Sumerian city-states emerge (4000 BCE)
- Naqada culture (4000 BCE)
- Carnac stones erected (4500 BCE)
- Earliest evidence of copper smelting (5000 BCE)
- Green Sahara and Saharan rock art (6000 BCE)
- Cucuteni–Trypillia culture (4800 BCE)
- Middle Jomon settlement at Sannai-Maruyama (5000 BCE)