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Posted By: beardedbruce
08-Feb-07 - 08:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Lovers...
Subject: RE: BS: Lovers...
Neolithic settlements include:

Franchthi Cave in Greece, epipalaeolithic (ca. 10,000 BC) settlement, reoccupied between 7500-6000 BC
Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, ca. 9000 BC
Gobustan in Azerbaijan, ca. 5000-8000 BC
Jericho in the Levant, Neolithic from around 8350 BC, arising from the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture
Nevali Cori in Turkey, ca. 8000 BC
Çatalhöyük in Turkey, 7500 BC
Pengtoushan culture in China, 7500-6100 BC
'Ain Ghazal in Jordan, 7250-5000 BC
Dispilio in Greece, ca. 5500 BC
Jiahu in China, 7000 to 5800 BC
Mehrgarh in Pakistan, 7000 BC
Knossus on Crete, ca. 7000 BC
Lahuradewa in India, 6200 BC
Porodin in Republic of Macedonia, 6500 BC [1]
Vrshnik (Anzabegovo) in Republic of Macedonia, 6500 BC [2]
Hemudu culture in China, 5000-4500 BC, large scale rice plantation
around 2000 settlements of Trypillian culture, 5400 BC -- 2800 BC
Knap of Howar and Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland, from 3500 BC
Brú na Bóinne in Ireland, ca. 3500 BC
lough gur in ireland from around 3000 BC

The world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track in England, also dates from this time.

The wheel was invented in the late Neolithic (5th millennium BC), and writing emerged from proto-writing at the period's end, in the 4th millennium BC.