Editing 6th millennium BC (section)

==Europe==
It has been estimated that humans first settled in [[Malta]] c. 5900 BC, arriving across the Mediterranean from both Europe and North Africa.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20180316/life-features/700-years-added-to-maltas-history.673498 |title=700 years added to Malta's history |newspaper=[[Times of Malta]] |date=16 March 2018 |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref>

Use of pottery found near [[Tbilisi]] is evidence that [[grape]]s were being used for [[winemaking]] c. 5980 BC.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41977709 |title='World's oldest wine' found in 8,000-year-old jars in Georgia |work=BBC News |date=13 November 2017 |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref>

Evidence of [[cheese]]-making in Poland is dated c. 5500 BC.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.nature.com/news/art-of-cheese-making-is-7-500-years-old-1.12020 |title=Art of cheese-making is 7,500 years old |journal=Nature |publisher=Macmillan |date=12 December 2012 |doi=10.1038/nature.2012.12020 |access-date=1 June 2019|last1=Subbaraman |first1=Nidhi |s2cid=180646880 }}</ref>

Four identified cultures starting around 5300 BC were the [[Dnieper-Donets culture|Dnieper-Donets]], the [[Narva culture|Narva]] (eastern Baltic), the [[Ertebølle culture|Ertebølle]] (Denmark and northern Germany), and the [[Swifterbant culture|Swifterbant]] (Low Countries). They were linked by a common pottery style that had spread westward from Asia and is sometimes called "[[ceramic Mesolithic]]", distinguishable by a point or knob base and flared rims.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gronenborn |first1=Detlef |title=Beyond the models: Neolithisation in Central Europe |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |date=2007 |volume=144 |pages=73–98}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Anthony |first1=D. W. |editor1-last=Yanko-Hombach |editor1-first=V. |editor2-last=Gilbert |editor2-first=A. A. |editor3-last=Panin |editor3-first=N. |editor4-last=Dolukhanov |editor4-first=P. M. |title=The Black Sea Flood Question: changes in coastline, climate and human settlement |date=2007 |isbn=978-9402404654 |pages=245–370 |chapter=Pontic-Caspian Mesolithic and Early Neolithic societies at the time of the Black Sea Flood: a small audience and small effects|publisher=Springer }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Anthony |first1=David W. |title=The horse, the wheel, and language: how Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world |date=2010 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=9780691148182}}</ref>