36th century BC

Events

• Civilization in Sumer.
• Beginning of the construction of the megalithic Ggantija temple complex in Malta.
• Mnajdra solar temple complex, Malta.
• Colombia, first rupestrian art at Chiribiquete.
• Maize is domesticated at Balsas River by the Tehuacán culture
• In Egypt, evidence found of mummification around this time at a cemetery in Nekhen.
• Fortified town at Amri on the west bank of the Indus River.

  Cultures

• Baden culture
• Funnelbeaker culture
• Boian culture, Phase IV or Spanţov Phase
• Chasséen culture
• Pfyn culture
• Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
• Beginning of Wartberg culture

  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.