A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
In South Asia, the Indus Valley civilization is in decline and abandons the once prosperous city of Mohenjo-Daro, which had a street grid and an advanced drainage system.
The agricultural villages of Western and Northern Europe emerge from the Neolithic and enter the Bronze Age.
The last surviving mammoths, a dwarf species, still walk Wrangel Island off the northern Siberian coast.
Elaborate Minoan temples and cities on the island of Crete, including Knossos and Phaistos, are mysteriously destroyed, perhaps by a massive earthquake.
Construction begins on the platform mound at Cerro Sechin in Peru, the New World's first monumental structure.