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.
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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.
Berber culture emerges in the Maghreb
The Berbers have occupied North Africa, specifically the Maghreb, since the beginning of recorded history and until the Islamic conquests of the 8th century CE constituted the dominant ethnic group in the Saharan region.
Humanity develops mysticism, creating meaning and purpose beyond survival
Broadly defined, mysticism can be found in all religious traditions, from indigenous religions and folk religions like shamanism, to organised religions like the Abrahamic faiths and Indian religions, and modern spirituality, New Age and New Religious Movements.
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.
The apple is domesticated for the first-time, perhaps in modern-day Kazakhstan
Scientists believe that apples were first domesticated in the Tian Shan region of southern Kazakhstan. In fact, by as early as 2000 B.C.E., domesticated apples were being grafted in the Near East.
Humans discover and settle Malta
Pottery found by archaeologists at the Skorba Temples resembles that found in Italy, and suggests that the Maltese islands were first settled in 5200 B.C.E. mainly by Stone Age hunters or farmers who had arrived from the Italian island of Sicily, possibly the Sicani.