Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution
10,000 BCE–4,000 BCE* · Event
Transition from foraging to farming, beginning in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 BCE and arising independently in China, New Guinea, the Americas and Africa; the period shown covers the early transition, and farming went on spreading for millennia.
On these timelines: Master, Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East, China, Sub-Saharan Africa
Around 10000 BCE
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution begins (10000 BCE)
- Jericho settled (9000 BCE)
- Göbekli Tepe constructed (9500 BCE)
- Domestication of wheat in the Levant (9000 BCE)
- Younger Dryas (10900 BCE)
- Folsom culture (10800 BCE)