* 3,760 years ago -- Alphabetic writing emerges * 3,800 years ago -- Bronze Age ends, Iron Age begins * 4,500 years ago -- horse domesticated in China * 5,300 years ago -- Sumerians develop cuneiform writing * 5,400 years ago -- Neolithic Age ends, Bronze Age begins * 10,000 years ago -- city of Jericho founded |
* 3,760 years -- time since alphabetic writing emerges * 3,800 years -- time since Bronze Age ends, Iron Age begins * 4,500 years -- time since horse domesticated in China * 5,300 years -- time since Sumerians develop cuneiform writing * 5,400 years -- time since Neolithic Age ends, Bronze Age begins * 6,000 years -- half-life of Carbon-14 * 10,000 years -- time since city of Jericho founded |
* 12,000 years ago -- Neolithic Age begins |
* 12,000 years -- time since beginning of Neolithic Age * 12,000 years -- time since the land ice left Denmark and southern Sweden |