Editing 3rd millennium BC (section)

==Cultures==
[[File:Snake Goddess - Heraklion Achaeological Museum retouched.jpg|200px|thumb|Minoan Snake Goddess.]]
;Near East
{{see|Early Bronze Age}}
* c. [[4th millennium BC]]–[[5th century BC]]: Old [[Dilmun]] period.
*{{Circa|2900}}–2350 BC: [[Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)]]
*c. 2334–2154 BC: [[Akkadian Empire]]
*3100–2686 BC: [[Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)]]
* c. [[2700 BC]]–[[1600 BC]]: Old [[Elamite language|Elamite]] period.
*2686–2181 BC [[Old Kingdom of Egypt]]
*2181–2055 BC [[First Intermediate Period of Egypt]]
* c. [[3000 BC]]: Nubian [[A-Group]] Culture comes to an end.
* {{Circa|[[2300 BC]]}}: Nubian [[C-Group]] culture.
;Europe
{{see|Neolithic Europe}}
* c. [[3200 BC]]: [[Cycladic culture]] in [[Aegean islands]] of [[Greece]].
* c. [[3200 BC]]–[[3100 BC]]: [[Helladic period|Helladic culture]] in mainland [[Greece]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Bronze Age on the Greek Mainland: Early Bronze Age – Early Helladic I|year=1999–2000|location=Athens|publisher=Foundation of the Hellenic World|url=http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/02/mainland/en/eh/intro/eb1/index.html}}</ref>
* c. [[3200 BC]]–[[2800 BC]]: [[Ozieri culture]].
* Founding of Europe's oldest civilization, the [[Minoan Civilization]] in 3000 BC. 
* [[Corded Ware culture]] (also Battle-axe culture, or Single Grave culture).<ref name="dynamic changes">{{Cite journal |last1=Papac |first1=Luka |last2=Ernée |first2=Michal |last3=Dobeš |first3=Miroslav |last4=Langová |first4=Michaela |last5=Rohrlach |first5=Adam B. |last6=Aron |first6=Franziska |last7=Neumann |first7=Gunnar U. |last8=Spyrou |first8=Maria A. |last9=Rohland |first9=Nadin |last10=Velemínský |first10=Petr |last11=Kuna |first11=Martin |display-authors=1 |date=2021 |title=Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BC central Europe |journal=Science Advances |language=en |volume=7 |issue=35 |pages=eabi6941 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.abi6941 |pmid=34433570 |issn=2375-2548 |pmc=8386934 |bibcode=2021SciA....7.6941P }}</ref>
* Late [[Maikop culture]].
* Late [[Vinca culture]].
* [[Globular Amphora culture]].
* Early [[Beaker culture]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Genetic Study Reveals Bohemia's Dynamic Prehistory |url=https://www.archaeology.org/news/9963-210830-bohemia-genome-migration |work=[[Archaeology (magazine)|Archaeology]] |publisher=Archaeological Institute of America |date=30 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[Yamnaya culture]], [[Catacomb culture]], likely loci of [[Proto-Indo-Europeans|Indo-European]] [[Satemization]].<ref name="Indo-European">{{Cite journal|last1=Haak |first1=Wolfgang |last2=Lazaridis |first2=Iosif |last3=Patterson |first3=Nick |last4=Rohland |first4=Nadin |last5=Mallick |first5=Swapan |last6=Llamas |first6=Bastien |last7=Brandt |first7=Guido |last8=Nordenfelt |first8=Susanne |last9=Harney |first9=Eadaoin |last10=Stewardson |first10=Kristin |last11=Fu |first11=Qiaomei |date=11 June 2015 |title=Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=522 |issue=7555 |pages=207–211 |doi=10.1038/nature14317 |issn=0028-0836 |pmc=5048219 |pmid=25731166 |bibcode=2015Natur.522..207H |arxiv=1502.02783}}</ref>
* The [[Sintashta-Petrovka-Arkaim]] culture emerges from the [[Catacomb culture]] from about [[2200 BC]], likely locus of [[Proto-Indo-Iranian]].
* [[Butmir culture]].
* Late [[Funnelbeaker culture]].
* [[Baden culture]].
* [[Gaudo culture]].

;South Asia
* 2800 BC–2600 BC: [[Indus Valley civilisation|Harappan 2]].
* 2600 BC–1900 BC: [[Indus Valley civilisation|Harappan 3]] (Mature Harappan).

;East and Southeast Asia
*[[Longshan culture]]
*[[Baodun culture]]
*[[Shijiahe culture]]
*[[Liangzhu culture]]
*[[Majiayao culture]]
*[[Lower Xiajiadian culture]]
* {{Circa|2500 BC}}: Austronesian peoples from Formosa colonize Luzon in northern Philippines.

;Americas
*[[Mesoamerican Archaic period]]
*[[Old Copper Complex]]
* [[Norte Chico civilization|Caral/Norte Chico civilization]].

;Sub-Saharan Africa
*[[Savanna Pastoral Neolithic]]