8th millennium BC

millennium between 8000 BC and 7001 BC

freshwater lake that existed in northern Europe as a predecessor to the modern Baltic Sea

sea

archaeological culture

large number of Holocene settlements which flourished between 8000 BCE and 4600 BCE, near the coast of present-day Ecuador

second period of human occupation in the Americas

the Late Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies of the Great Plains of North America

sea