9th millennium BC

Millennia:	10th millennium BC; 9th millennium BC; 8th millennium BC;
Centuries:	90th century BC; 89th century BC; 88th century BC; 87th century BC; 86th century BC; 85th century BC; 84th century BC; 83rd century BC; 82nd century BC; 81st century BC;

Europe and surrounding areas in the 9th millennium BC. Blue areas are covered in ice.
Upper Palaeolithic cultures.
Mesolithic cultures.
Swiderian cultures.
Pontic Tardenoisian cultures.
Iberian Capsian cultures.
Oranian cultures.
Lower Capsian cultures.
The Fertile Crescent.

The 9th millennium BC spanned the years 9000 BC to 8001 BC (11 to 10 thousand years ago). In chronological terms, it is the first full millennium of the current Holocene epoch that is generally reckoned to have begun by 9700 BC (11.7 thousand years ago). It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological analysis, or by radiometric dating.

In the Near East, especially in the Fertile Crescent, the transitory Epipalaeolithic age was gradually superseded by the Neolithic with evidence of agriculture across the Levant to the Zagros Mountains in modern-day Iran. The key characteristic of the Neolithic is agricultural settlement, albeit with wooden and stone tools and weapons still in use. It is believed that agriculture had begun in China by the end of the millennium. Elsewhere, especially in Europe, the Palaeolithic continued.

Millennia:	10th millennium BC 9th millennium BC 8th millennium BC
Centuries:	90th century BC 89th century BC 88th century BC 87th century BC 86th century BC 85th century BC 84th century BC 83rd century BC 82nd century BC 81st century BC