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 BCEAfrica

    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 BCESouth 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