VIII millennium BC c.

The 8th millennium BC. C. began on January 1, 8000 B.C. C. and ended on December 31, 7001 a. c.

Events (required citations of all events)

• In South America, potatoes and beans are grown.
• In China it begins to grow rice.
• In the first centuries of this millennium, the last glaciation is accompanied by a rapid rise in the sea level. The land bridges that joined Asia with North America and Australia are submerged.
• In Tierra del Fuego (extreme south of Chile and Argentina) the first paleo-American settlements begin.
• In the region known as fertile growth, barley, lighthouse and wheat are cultivated as wild cereals.
• 8000 B.C.: On the Iberian Peninsula, paintings of the Levantine style (Mesolytic).
• 8000 BC: Humans learn to knit (i.e., intertwine fibers to form tissues).
• 8000-7000 B.C.: In the Tehuacán Valley, in today's Mexico, there were small human groups dedicated to hunting and gathering.
• 7845 B.C.: Between the river Euphrates (Irak) and Egypt ends the culture of the Nativity (11140-7845 B.C.).
• 7730 B.C.: In the ravine Las Conchas, near Antofagasta (in northern Chile), the first human settlements begin.
• 7640 B.C.: In Marassi, Tierra del Fuego (in southern Chile) the first human settlements begin.
• 7500 B.C.: the first known vessels are made; they were canoes made with boned trunks. Later, we added rhymes to advance and direct them.
• 7500 a. C. approx.: In Turkey is founded the village of Chatal Joiuk (the oldest in the world), which will be destroyed by a fire 2800 years later.
• 7500 a. C. approx.: in Mesoamerica begins the Higher Critical Period.
• 7500 a. C. approx.: In Iraq, the linen is used to make tissues.
• 7370 a. C. approx.: in Jericho the famous wall is finished.
• 7020-6900 B.C.: On the site Acha. located on the southern bank of the valley of the Azapa river, 7 km from the coast of the current city of Arica (extreme north of Chile) a human settlement begins, which turns out to be the oldest coastal occupation in that country.