Jomon pot
c. 5000 BC · Resource
A cord-marked earthenware pot of Japan's Jomon culture, among the oldest pottery traditions in the world. Such vessels let hunter-gatherers boil and store food.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 5000 BCE
- Spread of agriculture to Europe (5000 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Sumerian city-states emerge (4000 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (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)