Humans invent pictograms, using symbols to represent objects, activities, and more
Early written symbols were based on pictographs (pictures which resemble what they signify) and ideogams (symbols which represent ideas).
Early humans
Sto:lo culture emerges in modern-day British Columbia
The first traces of people living in the Fraser Valley date from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Sto:lo called this area, their traditional territory, S’ólh Téméxw were highly mobile hunter-gatherers.
Humans from the Indus Valley Civilization settle the Himalayas for the first time
Neolithic tools found in Bhutan indicate that people have been living in the Himalayan region for at least 11,000 years.
Early humans of Ounjougou in modern-day Mali independently develop pottery
Ounjougou has yielded the earliest pottery found in Africa, and is believed to be one of the earliest regions (along with East Asia) in which the independent development of pottery occurred.
First human settlements are constructed at Ain Ghazal in modern-day Jordan
The 9th millennium MPPNB period in the Levant represented a major transformation in prehistoric lifeways from small bands of mobile hunter-gatherers to large settled farming and herding villages in the Mediterranean zone.
Humans develop agriculture for the first time ever, beginning the Agricultural Revolution
The beginning of this process in different regions has been dated from 10,000 to 8,000 B.C.E. in the Fertile Crescent and perhaps 8000 B.C.E. in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia.
Humans in Fertile Crescent domesticate first wheats
The origins of our modern wheat, according to genetics and archaeological studies, are found in the Karacadag mountain region of what is today southeastern Turkey–wheat makes up two of the classic eight founder crops of the origins of agriculture.
Humans invent agriculture
Taking root around 12,000 years ago, agriculture triggered such a change in society and the way in which people lived that its development has been dubbed the “Neolithic Revolution.”
Neolithic farmers in the Near East domesticate the goat
Goats (Capra hircus) were among the first domesticated animals, adapted from the wild bezoar ibex Capra aegargus in western Asia.
Qaraoun culture flourishes in modern-day Lebanon
The Qaraoun culture is a culture of the Lebanese Stone Age around Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley.