Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution
10,000 BCE–4,000 BCE · Event
Transition from foraging to agriculture across the Fertile Crescent, then independently in China, the Americas and Africa. Underlies all later civilisation.
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 (10500 BCE)