Ain Sakhri lovers
c. 11,000 years ago · Resource
A Natufian calcite pebble carved into an embracing couple, found near Bethlehem. Thought to be the oldest known depiction of two people having sex, made as farming was beginning.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 9000 BCE
- Göbekli Tepe constructed (9500 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution begins (10000 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution (10000 BCE)
- Jericho settled (9000 BCE)
- Domestication of wheat in the Levant (9000 BCE)
- Domestication of cattle (8500 BCE)
- Domestication of the potato (8000 BCE)
- Domestication of rice (8000 BCE)