2007-12-29 05:19:13 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
This is actually a rather difficult question to answer, because it depends on your definition; there are remains of large cities in the middle east and India that go back to around 10,000 BCE (Jericho, Ur, Dilmun, etc.), but there are archaeologic remains of villages that go back at least 50,000 years.
If you stretch your definition of human, you can go back rather further than that. There are remains of 'human' settlements going back over a million years in Africa, at least.
2007-12-29 05:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by James W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The oldest known settlement is in Finnmark over 10,000 years old.
2007-12-29 06:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by ti541 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The magazine "Nature" has Xiaochangliang in China as the oldest proven human settlement where tools have been dated to 1.36 million years old.
2007-12-29 05:38:32 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Ur is the oldest known city
2007-12-29 05:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prague has a paleolithic settlement that dates back 25000 years, they have found vineyards, proof of a permanent settlement and bones from neanderthal and homo sapien.
2007-12-29 06:03:26 · answer #5 · answered by frijolero 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sameria if you count agriculture, art, courts, great building Sameria is where it all truely began. The rest is just a bunch of apes scratching for food.
2014-09-28 17:42:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cavemans
2007-12-29 05:36:14 · answer #7 · answered by shygirl93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is many
2007-12-29 05:48:03 · answer #8 · answered by kid123456 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋