Peoples & MigrationThe 8th millennium BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 8th millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 8th millennium BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 8000 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
8000 BCE
Latest
8000 BCE
Africa
1
South America
1

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

  1. c. 8000 BCE — Africa:

    Niger

    Burials begin at Gobero

    Beside a lake in the present-day Ténéré, the Kiffian people began burying their dead at Gobero, creating what archaeologists identify as the oldest known cemetery in the Sahara.

    Era: The Green Sahara and the peoples of the Ténéré

    Sources: Gobero · Wikipedia, 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)

  2. by c. 8000 BCE — South America:

    Paraguay

    Peopling of the river basins

    Indigenous peoples occupy the basins of the Parana and Paraguay rivers over many millennia, with Guarani-speaking farming and forest peoples coming to predominate in the historic era.

    Era: The Guarani World and the Founding of Asuncion

    Sources: Paraguay: A Country Study · Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Paraguay · Encyclopaedia Britannica