Updated 28-Jun-2024
This was a time of innovation. Somewhere between 4,000 and 3,001 BCE (6,000-5000 years ago):
- Beginning of the Bronze Age
- Writing systems emerged (Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics), proto-writing may have emerged earlier
- Probable first domestication of the horse (Ukraine)
- Earliest known numerals (Egypt)
- Lyres, harps, flutes and clarinets (Egypt)
- Desertification of Northern Africa begins
- The world's oldest living non-clonal tree was born (USA)
- The Yamna/Yamnaya culture of the Caspian Steppe, believed to be the locus of Proto-Indo-Europeans and their language
- Newgrange and Stonehenge (Ireland, England)