Peoples & MigrationThe 3rd millennium BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 3rd millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 3rd millennium BCE — 6 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 3000 BCE to 2500 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
6
Nations
6
Earliest
3000 BCE
Latest
2500 BCE
Africa
3
South America
2
North America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. deep prehistoryAfrica

    Gabon

    Forest hunter-gatherers of the Ogooué

    Rainforest hunter-gatherers, ancestors of peoples such as the Babongo and Baka, inhabited the equatorial forest of present-day Gabon, living by hunting, fishing and gathering and trading with later farming communities.

    Era: Forest peoples and the Bantu migrations

    Sources: History of Gabon · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Gabon · Wikipedia, Gabon — People · GlobalSecurity.org

  2. c. 3rd millennium BCEAfrica

    Kenya

    Cushitic pastoralists enter the north

    Southern Cushitic-speaking herders move into the arid lands of northern Kenya, among the earliest food-producing communities in the region.

    Era: Cradle of Humankind: the Turkana Basin

    Sources: History of Kenya · Wikipedia

  3. c. 3000 BCEAfrica

    South Sudan

    Cattle-herding cultures in the Sudd

    Archaeological evidence indicates transhumant cattle-raising societies established in the Sudd marshlands of the upper White Nile.

    Era: Peoples of the Upper Nile

    Sources: History of South Sudan · Wikipedia, Precolonial History of South Sudan · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

  4. by c. 3000 BCESouth America

    Suriname

    Indigenous settlement

    Arawak, Carib, and other Indigenous peoples occupy the coast and interior of present-day Suriname over many centuries.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples and Early Contact

    Sources: Suriname: People · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Suriname: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  5. by c. 3000 BCESouth America

    Uruguay

    Indigenous peoples of the grasslands

    The Charrua and other hunting and gathering peoples occupy the plains north of the Rio de la Plata over many millennia, well before any European arrival.

    Era: The Charrua and the Banda Oriental

    Sources: Charrua · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Uruguay · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  6. c. 2500 BCENorth America

    Greenland

    The Saqqaq settle Greenland

    The Saqqaq, the earliest known people in Greenland, migrated from Arctic North America and spread along the coasts as caribou and seal hunters, beginning more than four millennia of continuous Arctic settlement.

    Era: The First Peoples: Saqqaq, Dorset and Thule

    Sources: Aasivissuit–Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Greenland: History · Encyclopædia Britannica