The Cairn of Barnenez – prehistoric mausoleum – is constructed in Brittany, France
The Cairn de Barnenez (known also as Barnenez Mound or Barnenez Tumulus) is one of the oldest structures in the world that is still standing.
Agriculture (10000 - 3000 B.C.E.)
Use of the healing Iboga plant emerges in Western African spiritual ceremonies
The roots of ibogaine trace all the way back to Africa where the naturally occurring psychoactive substance has been used for thousands of years. It is especially sacred to the Bwiti tribe of Cameroon and the Gabon region where they use the substance as a natural healer and in rites of passage ceremonies.
First beer is brewed in Iran
Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the 5th millenium B.C.E. in Iran, and recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and was spread throughout world.
Humans in ancient Greece invent the aulos, an early wind instrument
The aulos was a musical wind instrument played by the ancient Greeks. Made from cane, boxwood, bone, ivory, or occasionally metals the circular pipe (bombyke) was fitted with bulbous mouth pieces which gave the instrument a different pitch.
Humans in South America begin using ayahuasca to heal and discover
Writers on ayahuasca have often proposed that the use of the drink is very ancient; the date of about 5000 years BP recurs frequently.
The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture flourishes in modern-day Moldova, Ukraine, and Romania
The majority of Cucuteni–Trypillia settlements consisted of high-density, small settlements, concentrated mainly in the Siret, Prut and Dniester river valleys.
Humans of the Linear Pottery Culture settle the site of modern-day Bratislava
The first known permanent settlement of the area began with the Linear Pottery Culture, around 5000 B.C.E. in the Neolithic era. About 200 B.C.E., the Celtic Boii tribe founded the first significant settlement, a fortified town known as an oppidum.
Humans begin practicing meditation in the Indus Valley
In the Indus Valley, archaeologists discovered evidence of meditation in wall art dating from approximately 5,000 to 3,500 B.C.E.
Humans make glass for the first time, perhaps in modern-day Syria
The ancient Roman historian Pliny suggested that Phoenician merchants had made the first glass in the region of Syria around 5000 B.C.E. But according to the archaeological evidence, the first man made glass was in Eastern Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3500 B.C.E.
Humans of the Hemudu Culture in ancient China invent rowing oars
Wooden oars, with canoe-shaped pottery, dating from 5000-4500 B.C.E. have been discovered in a Hemudu culture site at Yuyao, Zhejiang, in modern China.