PREHISTORIC PEOPLE TIMELINE. BLOCK STYLE
10000 BC 1 BC 10000 BC

Wild wheat being gathered in Palestine

9000 BC

First farmers in Middle East

Saharan rock paintings

Hunter-gatherers

Farming in Peru

8000 BC

Rice farming in Thailand

Burials in North America

7000 BC

¸Catal H¨uy¨uk settlement

Pottery

Wheel invented

Earliest textiles at ¸Catal H¨uy¨uk

Farming in Balkans

Sheep

Cereals

Goats

Farming in New Guinea

6000 BC

Copper used

Settlements in Mesopotamia

Gold

Copper

Farming and pottery in China

5000 BC

Sail

Plough

Bronze worked

Megalithic tombs

Rice farming in China

Horse domesticated

Maize cultivation in Mexico

4000 BC

Cuneiform writing in Sumeria

Hieroglyphics in Egypt

Flint mines

Animals used to pull ploughs

First wheeled vehicles

Ploughs used and jade worked in China

Bronze worked in China and Thailand

Pottery in Guyana

Llamas used in Peru

3000 BC

Egyptian pyramids

Silk weaving in China

Cities in the Indus Valley

Temple mounds in Peru

2000 BC

Iron worked in Anatolia (Turkey)

Main phase of building of Stonehenge

Hieroglyphic writing in Crete

Cities appear in China

Rice growing in Korea

Metal working and cotton in Peru

1000 BC

Phoenician alphabet

Hillforts, western Europe

Iron working in Britain

Greek coins

Celtic coins

Settlements in Polynesia

Pictographic writing