9th millennium BC
(10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – other millennia)Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.
Events:
- circa 8350 BC – Neolithic settlement at Jericho
- circa 8300 BC – Nomadic hunters arrive in England
- circa 8000 BC – Eiker of Norway inhabited
- Agriculture in Mesopotamia
- Invention of the bow and arrow
- Earliest pottery in Japan
- Domestication of the pig in China
- Domestication of sheep and goats in the Middle East