36th century BC

Millennium:	4th millennium BC
Centuries:	37th century BC 36th century BC 35th century BC
Timelines:	37th century BC 36th century BC 35th century BC
State leaders:	37th century BC 36th century BC 35th century BC
Decades:	3590s BC 3580s BC 3570s BC 3560s BC 3550s BC 3540s BC 3530s BC 3520s BC 3510s BC 3500s BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

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).
• 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.

References

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