Historical world map · 8,000 BC

World map in 8,000 BC

A prehistoric reconstruction where mapped regions are necessarily broad and approximate. This sourced reconstruction contains 134 mapped geometries. 15 carry usable source labels; 117 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
134
Named labels
15
Geometry points
20,600
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 8,000 BC

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123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

Cultures, peoples, and polities mapped in 8,000 BC

Usable source labels mix archaeological cultures, peoples, broad cultural regions, and early polities. They are reproduced as dataset labels, not converted into modern-country categories.

Named labels
15
Unlabeled shapes
117
  • Aboriginal Tasmanians
  • Aboriginal tribes
  • Alluvial Lowland Mesolithic Hunter-Foragers
  • Austronesians
  • Bantu
  • Coastal and Woodland Mesolithic Hunter-Foragers
  • Highland Mesolithic Hunter-Foragers
  • HIghland Mesolithic Hunter-Foragers
  • Hunters-gatherers
  • Jōmon
  • Khoisan
  • Levantine Corridor (Neolithic Farmers)
  • Neolithic Farmers
  • Okhotsk culture
  • Steppe Mesolithic Hunter-Foragers

Precision in the source

Not every border deserves the same confidence

Precision is inherited from the dataset when available. It describes how the line was encoded, not the overall certainty of every historical claim inside the polygon.

Approximate border
134
Unlabeled source geometries
117

Source, license, and download

Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010

Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.