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Joatausend v. Chr. – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="6. Joatausend v. Chr." data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._milenij_p._n._e." title="6. milenij p. n. e. – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="6. milenij p. n. e." data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil%C2%B7lenni_VI_aC" title="Mil·lenni VI aC – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mil·lenni VI aC" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._tis%C3%ADcilet%C3%AD_p%C5%99._n._l." title="6. tisíciletí př. n. l. – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="6. tisíciletí př. n. l." data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._%C3%A5rtusinde_f.Kr." title="6. årtusinde f.Kr. – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="6. årtusinde f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._Jahrtausend_v._Chr." title="6. Jahrtausend v. Chr. – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="6. Jahrtausend v. Chr." data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._aastatuhat_eKr" title="6. aastatuhat eKr – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="6. aastatuhat eKr" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%CE%B7_%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CF%80.%CE%A7." title="6η χιλιετία π.Χ. – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="6η χιλιετία π.Χ." data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/VI_milenio_a._C." title="VI milenio a. C. – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="VI milenio a. C." data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-a_jarmilo_a.K." title="6-a jarmilo a.K. – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="6-a jarmilo a.K." data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.a._6._milurtekoa" title="K.a. 6. milurtekoa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="K.a. 6. milurtekoa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%B4%D8%B4%D9%85_(%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF)" title="هزاره ششم (پیش از میلاد) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هزاره ششم (پیش از میلاد)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._%C3%A1rat%C3%BAsund_f.Kr." title="6. áratúsund f.Kr. – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="6. áratúsund f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIe_mill%C3%A9naire_av._J.-C." title="VIe millénaire av. J.-C. – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="VIe millénaire av. J.-C." data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/6e_milennium_f.Kr." title="6e milennium f.Kr. – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="6e milennium f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%EC%9B%90%EC%A0%84_%EC%A0%9C6%EC%B2%9C%EB%85%84%EA%B8%B0" title="기원전 제6천년기 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="기원전 제6천년기" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._tisu%C4%87lje%C4%87e_pr._Kr." title="6. tisućljeće pr. Kr. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="6. tisućljeće pr. Kr." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/6ma_yarmilo_aK" title="6ma yarmilo aK – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="6ma yarmilo aK" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milenium_ke-6_SM" title="Milenium ke-6 SM – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Milenium ke-6 SM" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-im_millennie_AC" title="6-im millennie AC – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="6-im millennie AC" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._%C3%A1r%C3%BE%C3%BAsundi%C3%B0_f.Kr." title="6. árþúsundið f.Kr. – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="6. árþúsundið f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/VI_millennio_a.C." title="VI millennio a.C. – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="VI millennio a.C." data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A3_%D7%94-6_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%94%22%D7%A1" title="האלף ה-6 לפנה"ס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="האלף ה-6 לפנה"ס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AB%E1%83%95._%E1%83%AC._VI_%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%AC%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ძვ. წ. VI ათასწლეული – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ძვ. წ. VI ათასწლეული" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milenia_ya_6_KK" title="Milenia ya 6 KK – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Milenia ya 6 KK" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_6_a.C.n." title="Millennium 6 a.C.n. – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Millennium 6 a.C.n." data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._Joerdausend_v._Chr." title="6. Joerdausend v. Chr. – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="6. Joerdausend v. Chr." data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_t%C5%ABkstantmetis_pr._m._e." title="6 tūkstantmetis pr. m. e. – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="6 tūkstantmetis pr. m. e." data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._e._6._%C3%A9vezred" title="I. e. 6. évezred – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="I. e. 6. évezred" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87.%E0%A4%B8.%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%82.%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A5%AC_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95" title="इ.स.पू.चे ६ वे सहस्रक – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="इ.स.पू.चे ६ वे सहस्रक" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milenium_ke-6_SM" title="Milenium ke-6 SM – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Milenium ke-6 SM" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/6e_millennium_v.Chr." title="6e millennium v.Chr. – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="6e millennium v.Chr." data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%80%E5%85%83%E5%89%8D6%E5%8D%83%E5%B9%B4%E7%B4%80" title="紀元前6千年紀 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="紀元前6千年紀" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._juard%C3%BC%C3%BCsen_f.Kr." title="6. juardüüsen f.Kr. – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="6. juardüüsen f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/6._%C3%A5rtusen_f.Kr." title="6. årtusen f.Kr. – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="6. årtusen f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000-talet_fvt." title="5000-talet fvt. – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="5000-talet fvt." data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/VI_tysi%C4%85clecie_p.n.e." title="VI tysiąclecie p.n.e. – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="VI tysiąclecie p.n.e." data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexto_mil%C3%A9nio_a.C." title="Sexto milénio a.C. – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sexto milénio a.C." data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileniul_al_VI-lea_%C3%AE.Hr." title="Mileniul al VI-lea î.Hr. – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Mileniul al VI-lea î.Hr." data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-%D0%B5_%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%BD._%D1%8D." title="6-е тысячелетие до н. э. – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="6-е тысячелетие до н. э." data-language-autonym="Русский" 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title="Northgrippian">Northgrippian</a> (8.236–<a href="/wiki/4.2-kiloyear_event" title="4.2-kiloyear event">4.2† ka</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Meghalayan" title="Meghalayan">Meghalayan</a> (4.2 ka–present)</dd></dl></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Blytt%E2%80%93Sernander_system" title="Blytt–Sernander system">Blytt–Sernander</a> stages/ages</b> </p> <hr /> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Preboreal" title="Preboreal">Preboreal</a> (<a href="/wiki/8th_millennium_BC" title="8th millennium BC">10.3†–9† ka</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Boreal_(age)" title="Boreal (age)">Boreal</a> (<a href="/wiki/7th_millennium_BC" title="7th millennium BC">9–7.5† ka</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_(period)" title="Atlantic (period)">Atlantic</a> (<a class="mw-selflink selflink">7.5</a>–<a href="/wiki/4th_millennium_BC" title="4th millennium BC">5† ka</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Subboreal" title="Subboreal">Subboreal</a> (<a 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class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Neolithic cultures</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><div style="text-align:left"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Fertile_Crescent" title="Fertile Crescent">Fertile Crescent</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Heavy_Neolithic" title="Heavy Neolithic">Heavy Neolithic</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Shepherd_Neolithic" title="Shepherd Neolithic">Shepherd Neolithic</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Trihedral_Neolithic" title="Trihedral Neolithic">Trihedral Neolithic</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic" title="Pre-Pottery Neolithic">Pre-Pottery</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_A" title="Pre-Pottery Neolithic A">A</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_B" title="Pre-Pottery Neolithic B">B</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Qaraoun_culture" title="Qaraoun culture">Qaraoun culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tahunian" title="Tahunian">Tahunian culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Yarmukian_culture" title="Yarmukian culture">Yarmukian culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Halaf_culture" title="Halaf culture">Halaf culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Halaf-Ubaid_Transitional_period" title="Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period">Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ubaid_period" title="Ubaid period">Ubaid culture</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nile" title="Nile">Nile valley</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Faiyum_A_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Faiyum A culture">Faiyum A culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tasian_culture" title="Tasian culture">Tasian culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Merimde_culture" title="Merimde culture">Merimde culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/El_Omari_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="El Omari culture">El Omari culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Maadi_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Maadi culture">Maadi culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Badarian_culture" title="Badarian culture">Badarian culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Amratian_culture" title="Amratian culture">Amratian culture</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Europe" title="Neolithic Europe">Europe</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Arzachena_culture" title="Arzachena culture">Arzachena culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Boian_culture" title="Boian culture">Boian culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Butmir_culture" title="Butmir culture">Butmir culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cardium_pottery" title="Cardium pottery">Cardium pottery culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cernavod%C4%83_culture" title="Cernavodă culture">Cernavodă culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Co%C8%9Bofeni_culture" title="Coțofeni culture">Coțofeni culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_culture" title="Cucuteni–Trypillia culture">Cucuteni–Trypillia culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Danilo_culture" title="Danilo culture">Danilo culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Dude%C8%99ti_culture" title="Dudești culture">Dudești culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gorne%C5%9Fti_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorneşti culture">Gorneşti culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gumelni%C8%9Ba%E2%80%93Karanovo_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Gumelnița–Karanovo culture">Gumelnița–Karanovo culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Hamangia_culture" title="Hamangia culture">Hamangia culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kakanj_culture" title="Kakanj culture">Kakanj culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Khirokitia" title="Khirokitia">Khirokitia</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Linear_Pottery_culture" title="Linear Pottery culture">Linear Pottery culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Megalithic_Temples_of_Malta" title="Megalithic Temples of Malta">Malta Temples</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ozieri_culture" title="Ozieri culture">Ozieri culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Petre%C5%9Fti_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Petreşti culture">Petreşti culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/San_Ciriaco_culture" title="San Ciriaco culture">San Ciriaco culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Shulaveri%E2%80%93Shomu_culture" title="Shulaveri–Shomu culture">Shulaveri–Shomu culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sesklo_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Sesklo culture">Sesklo culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sopot_culture" title="Sopot culture">Sopot culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tisza_culture" title="Tisza culture">Tisza culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiszapolg%C3%A1r_culture" title="Tiszapolgár culture">Tiszapolgár culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Usatovo_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Usatovo culture">Usatovo culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Varna_culture" title="Varna culture">Varna culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_culture" title="Vinča culture">Vinča culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vu%C4%8Dedol_culture" title="Vučedol culture">Vučedol culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Transylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Neolithic Transylvania">Neolithic Transylvania</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Southeastern_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Neolithic Southeastern Europe">Neolithic Southeastern Europe</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_Neolithic_cultures_of_China" title="List of Neolithic cultures of China">China</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Peiligang_culture" title="Peiligang culture">Peiligang culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pengtoushan_culture" title="Pengtoushan culture">Pengtoushan culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Beixin_culture" title="Beixin culture">Beixin culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cishan_culture" title="Cishan culture">Cishan culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Dadiwan_culture" title="Dadiwan culture">Dadiwan culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Houli_culture" title="Houli culture">Houli culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Xinglongwa_culture" title="Xinglongwa culture">Xinglongwa culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Xinle_culture" title="Xinle culture">Xinle culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Zhaobaogou_culture" title="Zhaobaogou culture">Zhaobaogou culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Hemudu_culture" title="Hemudu culture">Hemudu culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Daxi_culture" title="Daxi culture">Daxi culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Majiabang_culture" title="Majiabang culture">Majiabang culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Yangshao_culture" title="Yangshao culture">Yangshao culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Hongshan_culture" title="Hongshan culture">Hongshan culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Dawenkou_culture" title="Dawenkou culture">Dawenkou culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Songze_culture" title="Songze culture">Songze culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Liangzhu_culture" title="Liangzhu culture">Liangzhu culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Majiayao_culture" title="Majiayao culture">Majiayao culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Qujialing_culture" title="Qujialing culture">Qujialing culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Longshan_culture" title="Longshan culture">Longshan culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Baodun_culture" title="Baodun culture">Baodun culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Shijiahe_culture" title="Shijiahe culture">Shijiahe culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Yueshi_culture" title="Yueshi culture">Yueshi culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Tibet" title="Neolithic Tibet">Neolithic Tibet</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_South_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Neolithic South Asia">South Asia</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Lahuradewa" title="Lahuradewa">Lahuradewa</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mehrgarh" title="Mehrgarh">Mehrgarh</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Marine_archaeology_in_the_Gulf_of_Cambay" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay">Marine archaeology<br /> in the Gulf of Cambay</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bhirrana" title="Bhirrana">Bhirrana</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rakhigarhi" title="Rakhigarhi">Rakhigarhi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kalibangan" title="Kalibangan">Kalibangan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chopani_Mando" title="Chopani Mando">Chopani Mando</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Jhukar_Phase" class="mw-redirect" title="Jhukar Phase">Jhukar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Daimabad" title="Daimabad">Daimabad</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chirand" title="Chirand">Chirand</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Koldihwa" title="Koldihwa">Koldihwa</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Burzahom_archaeological_site" title="Burzahom archaeological site">Burzahom</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mundigak" title="Mundigak">Mundigak</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Brahmagiri_archaeological_site" title="Brahmagiri archaeological site">Brahmagiri</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Other locations <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Khiamian_culture" title="Khiamian culture">Khiamian culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Jeulmun_pottery_period" title="Jeulmun pottery period">Jeulmun pottery period</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period" title="Jōmon period">Jōmon period</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Capsian_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Capsian culture">Capsian culture</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Savanna_Pastoral_Neolithic" title="Savanna Pastoral Neolithic">Savanna Pastoral Neolithic</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Al-Magar" title="Al-Magar">Al-Magar</a></dd></dl></dd></dl> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Neolithic topics</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution" title="Neolithic Revolution">Neolithic Revolution</a> (farming)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Animal_husbandry" title="Animal husbandry">Animal husbandry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pottery" title="Pottery">Pottery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metallurgy" title="Metallurgy">Metallurgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wheel" title="Wheel">Wheel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_circular_enclosures_in_Central_Europe" title="Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe">Circular ditches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henge" title="Henge">Henges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megalith" title="Megalith">Megaliths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Neolithic religion">Neolithic religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_decline" title="Neolithic decline">Neolithic decline</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below" style="background:#efefef; font-size:100%;"> ↓ <a href="/wiki/Chalcolithic" title="Chalcolithic">Chalcolithic</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Neolithic" title="Template:Neolithic"><abbr 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It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological analysis. The only exceptions are the <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">felling dates</a> for some construction timbers from <a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Europe" title="Neolithic Europe">Neolithic</a> <a href="/wiki/Well#History" title="Well">wells</a> in <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central Europe</a>. </p><p>This millennium is reckoned to mark the end of the <a href="/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise" title="Early Holocene sea level rise">global deglaciation</a> which had followed the <a href="/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum" title="Last Glacial Maximum">Last Glacial Maximum</a> and caused sea levels to rise by some 60 m (200 ft) over a period of about 5,000 years. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> culture and technology had spread from the Near East and into Eastern Europe by 6000 BC. Its development in the Far East grew apace and there is increasing evidence through the millennium of its presence in <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Egypt" title="Prehistoric Egypt">prehistoric Egypt</a> and the Far East. In much of the world, however, including Northern and Western Europe, people still lived in scattered <a href="/wiki/Palaeolithic" class="mw-redirect" title="Palaeolithic">Palaeolithic</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mesolithic" title="Mesolithic">Mesolithic</a> <a href="/wiki/Hunting-gathering" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunting-gathering">hunter-gatherer</a> communities. The <a href="/wiki/World_population_estimates" class="mw-redirect" title="World population estimates">world population</a> is believed to have increased sharply, possibly quadrupling, as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution" title="Neolithic Revolution">Neolithic Revolution</a>. It has been estimated that there were perhaps forty million people worldwide at the end of this millennium, growing to 100 million by the Middle Bronze Age c. 1600 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-JNB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Europe">Europe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has been estimated that humans first settled in <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a> c. 5900 BC, arriving across the Mediterranean from both Europe and North Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Use of pottery found near <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> is evidence that <a href="/wiki/Grape" title="Grape">grapes</a> were being used for <a href="/wiki/Winemaking" title="Winemaking">winemaking</a> c. 5980 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Evidence of <a href="/wiki/Cheese" title="Cheese">cheese</a>-making in Poland is dated c. 5500 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Four identified cultures starting around 5300 BC were the <a href="/wiki/Dnieper-Donets_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Dnieper-Donets culture">Dnieper-Donets</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Narva_culture" title="Narva culture">Narva</a> (eastern Baltic), the <a href="/wiki/Erteb%C3%B8lle_culture" title="Ertebølle culture">Ertebølle</a> (Denmark and northern Germany), and the <a href="/wiki/Swifterbant_culture" title="Swifterbant culture">Swifterbant</a> (Low Countries). They were linked by a common pottery style that had spread westward from Asia and is sometimes called "<a href="/wiki/Ceramic_Mesolithic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceramic Mesolithic">ceramic Mesolithic</a>", distinguishable by a point or knob base and flared rims.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="North_Asia">North Asia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: North Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Radlov" title="Vasily Radlov">Vasily Radlov</a>, among the <a href="/wiki/Paleo-Siberian" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleo-Siberian">Paleo-Siberian</a> inhabitants of <a href="/wiki/Central_Siberia" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Siberia">Central Siberia</a> and Southern Siberia were the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Yeniseian" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Yeniseian">Yeniseians</a>, of whom the <a href="/wiki/Ket_people" title="Ket people">Kets</a> are considered the last remainder. The Yeniseians were followed by the Uralic <a href="/wiki/Samoyedic_peoples" title="Samoyedic peoples">Samoyeds</a>, who came from the northern <a href="/wiki/Ural_Mountains" title="Ural Mountains">Ural</a> region. <b>Proto-Uralic</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Attested_language" title="Attested language">unattested</a> <a href="/wiki/Linguistic_reconstruction" title="Linguistic reconstruction">reconstructed</a> language ancestral to the modern <a href="/wiki/Uralic_languages" title="Uralic languages">Uralic language family</a>. The hypothetical language is thought to have been originally spoken in a small area in about 7000–2000 BC, and expanded to give differentiated <a href="/wiki/Protolanguage" class="mw-redirect" title="Protolanguage">protolanguages</a>. Some newer research has pushed the "<a href="/wiki/Proto-Uralic_homeland" title="Proto-Uralic homeland">Proto-Uralic homeland</a>" east of the Ural Mountains into <a href="/wiki/Western_Siberia" title="Western Siberia">Western Siberia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Polities harbouring the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Uralic_language" title="Proto-Uralic language">Uralic</a> peoples thrive. The shores of all Siberian lakes, which filled the depressions during the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lacustrine_period&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lacustrine period (page does not exist)">Lacustrine period</a>, abound in remains dating from the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> age.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Countless <i><a href="/wiki/Kurgan" title="Kurgan">kurgans</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Tumulus" title="Tumulus">tumuli</a>), furnaces, and other <a href="/wiki/Artifact_(archaeology)" title="Artifact (archaeology)">archaeological artifacts</a> bear witness to a dense population. Some of the earliest artifacts found in <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a> derive from Siberia.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. Missing entry name (December 2024)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Large scale constructions occur as early as 6000 BC. Prehistoric settlements in remote Siberia have revealed that 8,000 years ago construction of complex defensive structures, such as the <a href="/wiki/Amnya_complex" title="Amnya complex">Amnya complex</a>, occurred with political warfare. They are the oldest fortresses in the world. Finding such ancient fortifications challenges previous understanding of early human societies. It suggests that agriculture was not the only driver for people to start building permanent settlements. </p><p>Large scale backwards migrations occur with Native American populations migrating back into <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>, settling in areas such as the <a href="/wiki/Altai_Mountains" title="Altai Mountains">Altai Mountains</a> several times over a span of thousands of years, earliest dated to 5500 BC. This is potentially linked to the environmental changes at the time (see <a href="/wiki/Mount_Mazama" title="Mount Mazama">Mount Mazama</a>), which remained preserved in the oral history of the <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North American</a> cultures to this day.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Na-Dene_languages" title="Na-Dene languages">Na-Dené</a>-speaking peoples finally entered North America starting around 8000 <span title="Before Common Era">BCE</span>, reaching the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Northwest" title="Pacific Northwest">Pacific Northwest</a> by 5000 <span title="Before Common Era">BCE</span>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and from there migrating along the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_coast" title="Pacific coast">Pacific Coast</a> and into the interior. Linguists, anthropologists, and archeologists believe their ancestors constituted a separate migration into North America, later than the first Paleo-Indians. They migrated into Alaska and northern Canada, south along the Pacific Coast, into the interior of Canada, and south to the Great Plains and the American Southwest. </p><p>Indo-European cultures, descended from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_North_Eurasian" title="Ancient North Eurasian">Ancient North Eurasians</a> long ago, continue to expand Westwards from Central <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. It provides linguistic evidence for the geographical location of these languages around that time, agreeing with archeological evidence that Indo-European speakers were present in the Pontic-Caspian steppes by around 4500 BCE (the <a href="/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis" title="Kurgan hypothesis">Kurgan hypothesis</a>) and that Uralic speakers may have been established in the <a href="/wiki/Comb_Ceramic_culture" title="Comb Ceramic culture">Pit-Comb Ware culture</a> to their north in the fifth millennium BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SRF#LINKING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SRF"><span title="A full citation is required as a target to link this short citation to. See 'Help:Shortened footnotes'. (December 2024)">missing long citation</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Such words as those for "hundred", "pig", and "king" have something in common: they represent "cultural vocabulary" as opposed to "basic vocabulary". They are likely to have been acquired along with a novel number system and the domestic pig from Indo-Europeans in the south. Similarly, the Indo-Europeans themselves had acquired such words and cultural items from peoples and cultures to their south or west, including possibly their words for "ox", <i>*gʷou-</i> (compare English <i>cow</i>) and "grain", <i>*bʰars-</i> (compare English <i>barley</i>). In contrast, basic vocabulary – words such as "me", "hand", "water", and "be" – is much less readily borrowed between languages. If Indo-European and Uralic are genetically related, there should be agreements regarding basic vocabulary, with more agreements if they are closely related, fewer if they are less closely related. </p><p>Indo-European cultures in Central <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> flourish, these cultures are the: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Middle_Volga_culture&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Middle Volga culture (page does not exist)">Middle Volga culture</a> (followed by the <a href="/wiki/Samara_culture" title="Samara culture">Samara culture</a> at the turn of the millennium), the contemporary <a href="/wiki/Dnieper%E2%80%93Donets_culture" title="Dnieper–Donets culture">Dnieper–Donets culture</a>. From around 5200 BC, the patriarchal Dnieper-Donets culture leaves the <a href="/wiki/Mesolithic" title="Mesolithic">Mesolithic</a> <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherer</a> lifestyle and begins keeping <a href="/wiki/Cattle" title="Cattle">cattle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheep" title="Sheep">sheep</a> and <a href="/wiki/Goat" title="Goat">goats</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnthony2010174–182_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnthony2010174–182-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other domestic animals kept included <a href="/wiki/Pig" title="Pig">pigs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horse" title="Horse">horses</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dog" title="Dog">dogs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="South_Asia">South Asia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: South Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Junglefowl" title="Junglefowl">Junglefowl</a> were domesticated around c. 5500 BC in Southeast Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="East_Asia">East Asia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: East Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Zhaobaogou_culture" title="Zhaobaogou culture">Zhaobaogou culture</a> in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> began c. 5400 BC. It was in the north-eastern part of the country, primarily in the <a href="/wiki/Luan_River" title="Luan River">Luan River</a> valley in <a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a> and northern <a href="/wiki/Hebei" title="Hebei">Hebei</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Yangshao_culture" title="Yangshao culture">Yangshao culture</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">仰韶文化</span>; <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>: <i><span lang="zh-Latn">Yǎngsháo wénhuà</span></i>) was a <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the <a href="/wiki/Yellow_River" title="Yellow River">Yellow River</a> in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> from around the end of this millennium, from 5000 BC to 3000 BC. Excavations found that children were buried in painted pottery jars. Pottery style emerging from the Yangshao culture spread westward to the <a href="/wiki/Majiayao_culture" title="Majiayao culture">Majiayao culture</a>, and then further to <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a> along a proto-Silk Road.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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style="height:135px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Banpo_motif_(B%26W).png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Banpo_motif_%28B%26W%29.png/198px-Banpo_motif_%28B%26W%29.png" decoding="async" width="198" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Banpo_motif_%28B%26W%29.png/297px-Banpo_motif_%28B%26W%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Banpo_motif_%28B%26W%29.png/396px-Banpo_motif_%28B%26W%29.png 2x" data-file-width="4999" data-file-height="3412" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Bowl of the <a href="/wiki/Banpo" title="Banpo">Banpo culture</a> (first stage of the Yangshao culture), with geometrial human face motif and fish, 4500–3500 BC, <a href="/wiki/Shaanxi" title="Shaanxi">Shaanxi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Oceania">Oceania</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Oceania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Australians" title="Indigenous Australians">Indigenous Australians</a> in what is now southwestern <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a> were farming and smoking eels as a food source and trade good using stone weirs, canals, and woven traps around 6000 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Environmental_changes">Environmental changes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Environmental changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise" title="Early Holocene sea level rise">early Holocene sea level rise</a> (EHSLR), which began c. 10,000 BC, tailed off during the 6th millennium BC. Global water levels had risen by about 60 metres due to deglaciation of ice masses since the end of the Last Ice Age.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Accelerated rises in sea level rise, called meltwater pulses, occurred three times during the EHSLR. The last one, Meltwater Pulse 1C, which peaked c. 6000 BC, produced a rise of 6.5 metres in only 140 years. It is believed that the cause was a major ice sheet collapse in Antarctica.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Approximately 8,000 years ago (c. 6000 BC), a massive <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_landslide" title="Volcanic landslide">volcanic landslide</a> off <a href="/wiki/Mount_Etna" title="Mount Etna">Mount Etna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, caused a <a href="/wiki/Megatsunami" title="Megatsunami">megatsunami</a> that devastated the eastern <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean</a> coastline on the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In South America, a large eruption occurred at <a href="/wiki/Cueros_de_Purulla" title="Cueros de Purulla">Cueros de Purulla</a> c. 5870 BC, forming a buoyant cloud and depositing the Cerro Paranilla Ash in the <a href="/wiki/Calchaqu%C3%AD_Valleys" class="mw-redirect" title="Calchaquí Valleys">Calchaquí Valleys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A cataclysmic <a href="/wiki/Types_of_volcanic_eruptions" class="mw-redirect" title="Types of volcanic eruptions">volcanic eruption</a> occurred c. 5700 BC in <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> when 12,000-foot (3,700 m) high <a href="/wiki/Mount_Mazama" title="Mount Mazama">Mount Mazama</a> created <a href="/wiki/Crater_Lake" title="Crater Lake">Crater Lake</a> as the resulting caldera filled with water.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another major eruption occurred c. 5550 BC on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Takahe" title="Mount Takahe">Mount Takahe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a>, possibly creating an <a href="/wiki/Ozone_hole" class="mw-redirect" title="Ozone hole">ozone hole</a> in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-GVP_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GVP-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Carbon-14" title="Carbon-14">carbon-14</a> content in <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">tree rings</a> created c. 5480 BC indicates an abnormal level of <a href="/wiki/Solar_phenomena" title="Solar phenomena">solar activity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Astronomy_and_calendars">Astronomy and calendars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_millennium_BC&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Astronomy and calendars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monreale_creation_Adam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Monreale_creation_Adam.jpg/170px-Monreale_creation_Adam.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Monreale_creation_Adam.jpg/255px-Monreale_creation_Adam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Monreale_creation_Adam.jpg/340px-Monreale_creation_Adam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="684" data-file-height="963" /></a><figcaption>Mosaic of Creation of <a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">Adam</a> from <a href="/wiki/Monreale_Cathedral" title="Monreale Cathedral">Monreale Cathedral</a> - dated year 1 <a href="/wiki/Anno_Mundi" title="Anno Mundi">A.M.</a> (September 5509 BC) in the Byzantine calendar.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Epoch_(reference_date)" class="mw-redirect" title="Epoch (reference date)">epoch</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_calendar" title="Byzantine calendar">Byzantine calendar</a>, used in the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> and many Christian Orthodox countries, is equivalent to 1 September 5509 BC on the <a href="/wiki/Julian_proleptic_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Julian proleptic calendar">Julian proleptic calendar</a> (see image).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 6th millennium BC falls entirely within the <a href="/wiki/Astrological_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrological Age">Astrological Age</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gemini_(astrology)" title="Gemini 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