9th millennium BC

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Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.

Events

Circa 9000 BC– Mediterranean - Settling on Mediterranean isles started
Circa 8700 BC–8400 BC– Britain - Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by Maglemosian peoples
Circa 8500 BC– Great Britain - Mesolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
Circa 8350 BC– Middle East - Neolithic settlement at Jericho
Circa 8300 BC– Great Britain - Nomadic hunters arrive in England
Circa 8000 BC– Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
Circa 8000 BC– Africa - Earliest recorded African stone engravings, in the Apollo 1 cave.

Circa 8000 BC– World - Rising Sea
Circa 8000 BC– Antarctica - long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
Circa 8000 BC– Asia - rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
Circa 8000 BC– World - Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time
Circa 8000 BC– North America - The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.
Circa 8000 BC– World - Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes place in several regions

Circa 8000 BC– Mesopotamia - Agriculture in Mesopotamia
Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey
Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Domestication of sheep and goats
Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Evidence of domestication of dogs from wolves
Circa 8000 BC– World - Alleged transatlantic trade in tobacco between Africa and South America
Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies
Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran
Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods, a three-dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory system and medium of exchange
Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology