While it is often described as the "Agricultural Revolution," the development of settled societies took several millennia after the first discovery of agriculture. Moreover, this process occurred at different times in different parts of the world based on the domestication of different plants. If one is going to speak in term of revolution, one might better speak in terms of "agricultural revolutions."
c. 10,000 BC: Beginnings of Settled Agriculture
- 10,000 BC: First agricultural villages
- 10,000 BC: Invention of the bow and arrow
- 10,000 BC: Dogs and reindeer are domesticated
- 10,000 BC: Beginnings of settled agriculture
- 10,000 BC: Earliest pottery (Japan)
- c. 7,000: Beginning of Settled Agricultural Revolution
- c. 6,500-5,650 BC: Catal Hulyuk
- 6,000 BC: Beginning of Settled Agriculture in the Nile River Valley
- 2,000 BC: Beginning of Settled Agriculture in the Niger River Valley
- 200 BC: Height of Nok culture
- 10,000 to 4,000 BC: Painted Pottery Bowl (China)
- 5,0000 to 2,700 BC: Yangshao culture
- 3,5000 to 2,000 BC: Longsham culture
- 6, 000 BC: Village of Ban Po in China
- ca. 4000 BC: The Culture of Vra
- ca. 2000 BC: Stonehenge
- c. 500 BC to AD 400: Adena and Hopewell Cultures
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