36th century BC

The 36th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3600 BC to 3501 BC.

Events

Ggantija temple

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

Cultures

• Baden culture (present-day Moravia, Hungary, Slovakia and Eastern Austria)
• Funnelbeaker culture (north central Europe and southern Scandinavia)
• Boian culture, Phase IV or Spanţov Phase (also known as the Boian-Gumelniţa culture) (lower Danube river)
• Chasséen culture (present-day France)
• Pfyn culture (present-day Switzerland)
• Cucuteni-Trypillian culture (present-day Romania, Moldova and Ukraine)
• Beginning of Wartberg culture (present-day Germany)

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• First known evidence of popcorn. Excavations of the Bat Cave in west central New Mexico in 1948 and 1950 discovered ears of popcorn dated to circa 3600 BC.