The 4th millennium BC spans the years 4000 through 3000 BCE. Some of the major changes in human culture during this time included the beginning of the Bronze Age and the invention of writing, which played a major role in starting recorded history.
The city states of Sumer and the kingdom of Egypt were established and grew to prominence. Agriculture spread widely across Eurasia. World population in the course of the millennium doubled, approximately from 7 to 14 million people.
c. 4000 BC–2000 BC—People and animals, a detail of rock-shelter painting in Cogul, Lleida, Spain, are painted. It is now at Museo Arqueológico, Barcelona.
3117: Minimum time by which, according to physicist Andrew Kennedy, humanity can expect to have reached Barnard's Star, assuming an annual economic growth rate (and corresponding increase in power output) of 1.4% from 2007.
Recorded history began with the invention of writing around the 4th millennium BCE, with the earliest verifiable records attributed to the Sumerians in Mesopotamia around 2900 BC.
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) AMMAN – The Levant represented the natural outlet for ancient Egypt which exercised its political dominance since 4th millennium BC. The Sinai and Syria-Palestine were the ... .
The hill the palace is built on was inhabited continuously from the 4th millennium to the 2nd century BC. The Old Palace was built on the hill between 1900 and 1700 BC ...Around 150 BC, the city of Phaistos itself was completely destroyed.
Some similarities have been found with the Proto-Kartvelian script24 that appeared in the 4th millennium BC, as well as symbols found on seals from the territory of pre-Christian Georgia...HeaderImageCredit ... Sources .
In addition to rock art with spiritual themes, the people started erecting menhir-statues that indicate a religious wave that emerged in the NearEast in the 6 th millennium BC and reached Europe in the 4th millennium.
Archaeologists discovered a large settlement spanning 4,000 years of occupation, from the 4th millennium BC to the 7th century AD... “Only a few settlement sites from the Merovingian period have been excavated in central Germany to date ... TDLA.
During the following 5th and 4th millennium BC, Eneolithic cultures emerged in the river valleys of the North-Pontic steppe and became archaeologically visible as they built characteristic earthen burial mounds, known as 'kurgans'.
Getting your TrinityAudio player ready... What they found, instead, was a beautiful Early Bronze Age structure dating to the 4th millennium BC, that was likely a temple or ritual center ... PublicFunction. Open-Air Communitarian Ritualism? ... Top image ... .
Within the structure’s interior rooms, excavations revealed 40 intact vessels in situ, that date from the Early Bronze Age IB (late 4th millennium BC) ...ImageCredit . IAA ... Header Image Credit . IAA. Sources . IAA.
The Athenian neighborhood was occupied from the 5th century BC to the 12th centuryAD. From the 4th millennium BC to the end of the Archaic era, the area was inhabited but not very populous.
While excavating along a highway, they uncovered a prehistoric burial mound dating from the 4th millennium BC, making it one of Europe’s earliest known funerary structures.
...Jordan Valley, Kafafi, continued, adding that in this area, the Tell Abu Hamid site is the only site to produce a stratigraphical sequence from the late 6th millennium to the middle 4th millennium BC.