Peoples & MigrationThe 9th millennium BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 9th millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 9th millennium BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 9000 BCE to 8800 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
9000 BCE
Latest
8800 BCE

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

  1. c. 9000 BCEEurope

    Estonia

    The Kunda culture

    Mesolithic hunter-fishers of the Kunda culture, named for the Estonian town of Kunda, settled the eastern Baltic forest zone after the Ice Age, among the earliest inhabitants of the region.

    Era: The Ancient Estonians and the Northern Crusades

    Sources: Ancient Estonia and the Kunda culture · Klaipeda University, Archaeologia Baltica (peer-reviewed journal)

  2. c. 8800 BCEEurope

    Finland

    First settlement of Finland

    People moved into Finland as the Ice Age glaciers retreated, settling along the coasts and waterways; the land was later inhabited by Finnic-speaking peoples and, in the north, the Sami.

    Era: The Finnic Peoples and Six Centuries as Part of Sweden

    Sources: History of Finland · InfoFinland (Finnish public authorities), Sami (people) · Encyclopaedia Britannica