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9th millennium BC

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

Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.

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Events:

• 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

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