Neolithic Revolution
Agriculture, villages, domestication. The first cities appear.
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Key events
People began cultivating plants and managing animals along different regional paths. This is a broad transition, not one global start date: hunting and gathering continued, and communities did not all form farming settlements or states together.
Hunter-gatherer communities in present-day Türkiye built large enclosures with carved pillars. Their likely ritual uses remain a subject of research.
Sheep, goats, cattle, and eventually the horse.
Tell es-Sultan preserves an early settled community, including a substantial tower and walls. Older deposits and later occupations extend beyond this selected phase.
Storage, textiles — the tools of settled life.
The first metalworking.
Events and overlapping lifetimes are paginated below.