8th millennium BC
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The 8th millennium BC is the thousand-year period from 8000 BC to 7001 BC, marking a critical transition in human history when people began shifting from hunting and gathering to farming and settling in permanent communities. This era laid the foundation for civilization as we know it, as agriculture emerged independently in different parts of the world and allowed populations to grow and develop more complex societies.
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The south area of Çatalhöyük. An archaeological dig is in progress. Area of the Fertile Crescent, circa 7500 BC, with main sites.
The 8th millennium BC spanned the years 8000 BC to 7001 BC (c. 10 ka to c. 9 ka). In chronological terms, it is the second full millennium of the current Holocene epoch and is entirely within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) phase of the Early Neolithic. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological analysis, or by radiometric dating.