A world chronology · 7999–7000 BCE

The 8th millennium BCE

4 sourced events, 4 nations, in the order they happened.

Every record below is drawn from the chronicle of the nation it belongs to, with the same citations. Read down for the whole period, or jump to a stretch of it; within each year the world is grouped by continent.

Africa
2 events · 2 nations
Asia
1 event · 1 nation
South America
1 event · 1 nation

3 events · 3 nations

8000–7901 BCE

8000 BCE3 records

Africa

  1. LSO

    Lesotho · Culture & Ideas · for millennia

    San rock art of the Maloti-Drakensberg

    San hunter-gatherers occupy the mountain rock shelters, leaving one of the world's richest bodies of rock art depicting eland, dance and trance.

    Hunters, Painters and Farmers

    Sources: Rock art in southern Africa (British Museum, African Rock Art) · History of Lesotho (Wikipedia)

  2. NER

    Niger · Peoples & Migration · c. 8000 BCE

    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.

    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))

South America

  1. PRY

    Paraguay · Peoples & Migration · by c. 8000 BCE

    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.

    The Guarani World and the Founding of Asuncion

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

1 event · 1 nation

7100–7001 BCE

7100 BCE1 record

Asia

  1. TUR

    Türkiye · Formation · c. 7100 BCE

    The Neolithic town of Çatalhöyük

    On the Konya plain, the streetless settlement of Çatalhöyük flourished for over a millennium (c. 7100–5700 BCE), one of the world's best-preserved Neolithic towns, with roof-access houses and elaborate wall art.

    Ancient Anatolia: Çatalhöyük, the Hittites and Troy

    Sources: Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük (UNESCO World Heritage Centre) · Çatalhöyük, Turkey's Stone Age settlement (National Geographic)