Peoples & MigrationThe 5th millennium BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 5th millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 5th millennium BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 5000 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
5000 BCE
Latest
5000 BCE
Africa
1
North America
1

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

  1. c. 5th millennium BCEAfrica

    Niger

    The Tenerean herders

    After a dry interval, the more lightly built Tenerean people reoccupied Gobero, herding cattle as the lake shallowed; their graves include the famous burial of a woman with two children, hands interlinked.

    Era: The Green Sahara and the peoples of the Ténéré

    Sources: Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara' · University of Chicago News, Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change · Sereno et al., PLoS ONE (PMC), Gobero · Wikipedia

  2. c. 5000 BCENorth America

    Trinidad and Tobago

    The first settlers reach the islands

    Archaic Ortoiroid peoples migrated from the South American mainland into Trinidad, the earliest of several waves of indigenous settlement that populated the twin islands over millennia.

    Era: The first peoples

    Sources: T&T History Timeline · National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica