LVe front century J. - C.

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Events

Europe

the age known as of “linear ceramics or Ribboned” born in Hungary and Slovakia is propagated in a few centuries while following the course of the the Danube of the Black Sea to the east to the Atlantique to the west (- 4000), of the the Alps in the south with the Baltique in north. The people of ribboned are installed exclusively on the Lœss (very fertile wind silts deposited by the winds during the last glaciation). They occupy of the villages made up of long houses which are used of dwelling, cattle shed and attics. Culture of cereals and vegetables. Breeding of the pigs and the cattle.

Africa

relatively wet Phase with the the Sahara between -5500 and -2350.

Egypt

Neolithic of the Fayoum (- 5500). Climatic drying transforming the steppes into desert and making livable the valley of the the Nile. The hunters of the steppes go down towards the river, are fixed on the cultivable grounds and are linked with the pastors and the fishermen.
nilotic Cultures of Badari and El-Amrah into High Egypt.

Agriculture (corn, barley, flax), breeding, sedentarisation. First villages in Fayoum and in High Egypt: round huts with argillaceous the ground walls interfered pieces of covered limestones and reeds or straw.
Pottery of sandstone, hones polished. Burials: bodies buried in fetal position, offerings (cereals, eggs of ostriches, fish, pearls, feathers, flowers). The pits are covered with stones limestones forming a light hillock. Small objects of hammered copper and discovered potteries with Badari, in High-Egypt. In the necropolis of the village, beside the human remainders, rest jackals, gazelles, bulls and rams wrapped in fabrics or plaits, testimony of a worship of crowned animals.

The Middle East

Appearance of the culture of Halaf in the north of the Mésopotamie, with arched round houses and painted fine ceramics.

Indian sub-continent

Asia

Significant characters

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

Traces of tartaric acid (resulting from the Wine) in an amphora sumérienne of Uruk.
First system of irrigation known in the world with Choga Mami (Iran).

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