7th millennium BC
(8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – other millennia)
Events:
- Agriculture appears in Europe (Greece, Italy)
- Pastoralism and cultivation of cereals (East Sahara)
- First pottery in Mesopotamia
- Gold and native copper begin to be used
- circa 7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South Asia
- circa 6500 BC – English Channel formed
- circa 6000 BC – Neolithic Age in Korea
- Domestication of the cow in the Middle East