3000 BCE – 1200 BCE
Polities of the Bronze Age
115 polities whose span overlaps this band, grouped by region and listed in order.
Europe · 25
Minoan 3299 BCE – 1099 BCE Yamnaya culture 3299 BCE – 2599 BCE city-states Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Cycladic Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE European tribal peoples Attested 3000 BCE – 1930 CE Germanic and Slavic tribes Attested 3000 BCE – 1200 CE Hurrian Kingdoms Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Beaker 2600 BCE – 1800 BCE Catacomb culture 2499 BCE – 1999 BCE Assyria 2024 BCE – 608 BCE Anatolian tribes Attested 2000 BCE Hittites Attested 2000 BCE – 700 BCE Únětice Attested 2000 BCE Colchis 1700 BCE – 163 BCE Celtiberians Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Cimerians Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Greek city-states Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE Illyrians Attested 1500 BCE – 500 BCE N. European Bronze Age cultures Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Phrygians Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Saami Attested 1500 BCE – 700 CE Thrace Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Urnfield cultures Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Lusatian culture 1300 BCE – 500 BCE Celts Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE
Middle East · 17
Ur 3799 BCE – 499 BCE Egypt Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Elam Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE Kerma Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Namazga Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Semites Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Andronovo 2299 BCE – 999 BCE Canaan Attested 2000 BCE Babylonia 1900 BCE – 538 BCE Arabian pastoral nomads Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Arameans Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Iranian pastoralists Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Kingdom of David and Solomon Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Kush Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE Saba Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE state societies and Aramaean kingdoms Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Urartu Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE
South Asia · 8
Dravidians Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE Indus valley civilization 3000 BCE – 1799 BCE Austroasian rice cultures Attested 2000 BCE Tibeto-Burmanese Attested 2000 BCE Gandhara grave culture 1599 BCE – 499 BCE Burmese Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Tibetans Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Vedic Aryans 1500 BCE – 500 BCE
East Asia · 17
Ainu Attested 3000 BCE – 1700 CE Dapenkeng culture Attested 3000 BCE Jōmon Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Gojoseon 2332 BCE – 107 BCE Austronesian peoples Attested 2000 BCE – 1994 CE Dakapeng culture Attested 2000 BCE Koreans Attested 2000 BCE Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE Thai Attested 2000 BCE – 200 BCE Xia Attested 2000 BCE Austro-Asiatic rice farmers Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE Late Jomon culture Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE Paleo-Koreans Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Prot-Altaic pastoralists Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Sinic Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Wu Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE Zhoa Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE
Africa · 9
Bantu Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Hunters-gatherers Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Khoisan Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Saharan Pastoral Nomads Attested 2000 BCE – 200 BCE Berbers Attested 1500 BCE – 900 CE Ethiopian highland farmers Attested 1500 BCE – 323 BCE Guanches Attested 1500 BCE – 1815 CE Khoiasan Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE West African cereal farmers Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE
Americas · 27
Chinchorro culture 7000 BCE – 1499 BCE Norte Chico Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Valdivia Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Archaic Amerindian hunter-gatherers Attested 2000 BCE Arctic marine mammal hunters Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE Maya chiefdoms and states 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers and maïze farmers Attested 2000 BCE Amazon hunter-gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1783 CE Andean hunter-gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1783 CE Caribbean hunter-gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1650 CE Chinchoros Attested 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Chorrera Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Desert hunter-gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1400 CE El Paraiso Attested 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Maize farmers Attested 1500 BCE – 200 BCE Manioc farmers Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE Olmec Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE Pampas cultures Attested 1500 BCE – 1815 CE Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters Attested 1500 BCE – 1815 CE Plain bison hunters Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1530 CE Poverty point culture Attested 1500 BCE – 500 CE Savanna hunter-gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1783 CE Shellfish gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 800 CE Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers Attested 1500 BCE – 1715 CE
Oceania · 7
Aboriginal Tasmanians Attested 3000 BCE – 1800 CE Aboriginal tribes Attested 3000 BCE Austronesians Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE Polynesian peoples Attested 3000 BCE – 1200 CE Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE Tasmanian hunter-gatherers Attested 2000 BCE – 1715 CE Papuan neolithic farmers Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE
Elsewhere · 5
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