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Landmark Europe archaeological

Avebury

2850 BCE – 2200 BCE · 650 years

Largest stone circle in Europe, enclosing an entire village within its Neolithic henge — arguably more impressive in scale than Stonehenge

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Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Tarxien Temples

3600 BCE – 2500 BCE

Polity · Europe

Beaker

2600 BCE – 1800 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Skara Brae

3180 BCE – 2500 BCE

Polity · Europe

Yamnaya culture

3299 BCE – 2599 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Catacomb culture

2499 BCE – 1999 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

city-states

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2850 BCE and 2200 BCE.

2750 BCE Tyre 2700 BCE Saqqara 2600 BCE Royal Tombs of Ur 2560 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza 2500 BCE Umma–Lagash Border War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Andronovo Polity · Middle East 2299 BCE – 999 BCE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Early Sumerian City-State Wars Conflict · Middle East 2900 BCE – 2350 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Sphinx of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2500 BCE – still standing
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