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 BCE — Europe:

    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 BCE — Europe:

    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