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Between around 3000 BC and 1000 AD, the Bantu expansion swept from north-western Central Africa (modern day Cameroon) across much of sub-Saharan Africa, laying the foundations for states in Central, Eastern, and Southern regions. [3] The oral word is revered in most African societies, and history has generally been recorded via oral tradition.
3000 BC: First known use of papyrus by Egyptians. 3000 – 2500 BC: Earliest evidence of autochthonous iron production in West Africa. [5] 3000 – 2300 BC: The Pastoral Neolithic culture builds East Africa's earliest and largest monumental cemetery at Lothagam North Pillar Site. [6] 3000 BC: Domestication of the horse in the Yamnaya culture.
The ancient history of Africa spans from the ancient period until the medieval and early modern period in the history of Africa. [a] ... 1=3000 – 1500 BC origin
c. 3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa. c. 3300 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley. [1] c. 3000 BC: Camels are domesticated in Egypt. c. 3000 BC: There is an intense phase of burial at Duma na nGiall on the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland. [2] c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be ...
It is from 3100 BC onward that large-scale human settlement and communal construction become clearly apparent, which lasted until a period of decline around 1800 BC. c. 3500 BC-3000 BC Huaricanga is the earliest city of the Norte Chico civilization, called Caral or Caral-Supe in Peru and Spanish language sources. "It existed around 3500 BC and ...
This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC.
The history of West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, ... which became a desert by 3000 BCE. ... appeared in West Africa by about 2600–1200 BC. [45] ...
Mande peoples have been credited with the independent development of agriculture about 4000–3000 BC. [60] In West Africa, the wet phase ushered in an expanding rainforest and wooded savanna from Senegal to Cameroon. Between 9000 and 5000 BC, Niger–Congo speakers domesticated the oil palm and raffia palm.