Doggerland (In Our Time)
7,000 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the people, plants and animals once living on land now under the North Sea, now called Doggerland after Dogger Bank, inhabited up to c7000BC or roughly 3000 years before the beginnings of Stonehenge.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 7000 BCE
- Maize domesticated in Mesoamerica (7000 BCE)
- Çatalhöyük at its peak (7000 BCE)
- Spread of agriculture to Europe (6500 BCE)
- Çatalhöyük settlement (7100 BCE)
- Earliest evidence of lead smelting (6500 BCE)
- Green Sahara and Saharan rock art (6000 BCE)
- Domestication of the potato (8000 BCE)
- Domestication of rice (8000 BCE)