(10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – other millennia)

Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.

Events:

• circa 8500 BC – Neolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
• circa 8350 BC – Neolithic settlement at Jericho
• circa 8300 BC – Nomadic hunters arrive in England
• circa 8000 BC – Eiker of Norway inhabited

Inventions/Discoveries:

• Agriculture in Mesopotamia
• Invention of the bow and arrow
• Earliest pottery in Japan
• Domestication of the pig in China
• Domestication of sheep and goats in the Middle East