Neolithic Timeline

  • 9000 BCE

    Implementing more tools

    Implementing more tools
    People started using more tools such as sickles or curved cutting knives, axes, and hammers made of stone. This showed that they rethought the way they lived.
  • 8000 BCE

    The end of the ice age

    The end of the ice age
    The end of the ice age occurs. This enables humans to develop permanent settlements which is a huge step for mankind.
  • 8000 BCE

    Town into a Settlement

    Jericho is the first town that turns into a settlement. According to different historical sources, Jericho became a successful settlement.
  • 7000 BCE

    End of the Stone Age

    End of the Stone Age
    Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper. This important because this was an event that showed how people were stepping out of the stone age and using different materials.
  • 7000 BCE

    Cultivation of Foods

    Cultivation of Foods
    Evidence that the people of this time cultivated barley and wheat surfaces. This shows that people of this time ate different foods and were constantly trying knew things.
  • 6500 BCE

    Pottery Fragments Found

    Pottery Fragments Found
    Pottery fragments have been discovered that survived this neolithic time in Turkey. This is showing that people had civilizations all across the world.
  • 4000 BCE

    Sumer develops as the first center of Mesopotamian civilization

    Sumer develops as the first center of Mesopotamian civilization
    This is an important event because Sumer was the first center of a civilization. This is what probably influenced moving more and more people out of the hunter and gatherer time.
  • 3100 BCE

    Upper and Lower Egypt unify

    Upper and Lower Egypt unify
    Events such as this are important because, in 3100 BC, Upper and Lower Egypt unify as a single kingdom. This inaugurated the first Egyptian dynasty.