9th millennium BC

(10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – other millennia) Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.\n----\nEvents:\n* circa 8500 BC – Neolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland\n* circa 8350 BC – Neolithic settlement at Jericho\n* circa 8300 BC – Nomadic hunters arrive in England\n* circa 8000 BC – Eiker of Norway inhabited\nInventions/Discoveries:\n* Agriculture in Mesopotamia\n* Invention of the bow and arrow\n* Earliest pottery in Japan\n* Domestication of the pig in China\n*Domestication of sheep and goats in the Middle East \n\n\n\n\n