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| | | West Asia timeline |
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| c. 90,000 years ago |
| | Fossilized bones found in the caves of Skhul and Qafzeh, in modern Israel, are of anatomically modern humans | |
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| c. 12,000 years ago |
| | A canine jaw, discovered in a cave in Mesopotamia, is the earliest evidence of the domestication of dogs | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | Human communities in the Middle East cultivate crops and domesticate animals, in the Neolithic Revolution | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | Wheat is grown in the Middle East - the first cereal cultivated by man | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | Sheep are the first farm animals of which evidence of domestication survives, from a settlement in northern Iraq | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | Jericho, often quoted as the first town, grows into a settlement covering ten acres | |
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