36th century BC
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The 36th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3600 BC to 3501 BC.
Events
[edit]- Civilization in Sumer (Uruk period).
- Beginning of the construction of the megalithic Ggantija temple complex in Malta.
- Mnajdra solar temple complex, Malta.
- Colombia, first rupestrian art at Chiribiquete (Caquetá).
- Maize is domesticated at Balsas River by the Tehuacán culture
- In Egypt, evidence found of mummification around this time at a cemetery in Nekhen (Hierankopolis).[1]
- Fortified town at Amri on the west bank of the Indus River.
Cultures
[edit]- Baden culture (present-day Moravia, Hungary, Slovakia and Eastern Austria)
- Funnelbeaker culture (north central Europe and southern Scandinavia)
- Boian culture, Phase IV or Spanţov Phase (also known as the Boian-Gumelniţa culture) (lower Danube river)
- Chasséen culture (present-day France)
- Pfyn culture (present-day Switzerland)
- Cucuteni-Trypillian culture (present-day Romania, Moldova and Ukraine)
- Beginning of Wartberg culture (present-day Germany)
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
[edit]- First known evidence of popcorn. Excavations of the Bat Cave in west central New Mexico in 1948 and 1950 discovered ears of popcorn dated to circa 3600 BC.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Timeline Egypt Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine Timelines of History.
- ^ Popcorn: Ingrained in America's Agricultural History Archived 2012-08-18 at the Wayback Machine. National Agricultural Library.