36th century BC

The 36th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3600 BC to 3501 BC.

Events

Ggantija temple
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  1. ^ Timeline Egypt Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine Timelines of History.
  2. ^ Popcorn: Ingrained in America's Agricultural History Archived 2012-08-18 at the Wayback Machine. National Agricultural Library.