36th century BC

36th century 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). The 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 Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico in 1948 and 1950 discovered ears of popcorn dated to circa 3600 BC.