The oldest-known deliberate mummy is a child, one of the Chinchorro mummies found in the Camarones Valley, Chile, and dates from around 5050 BC.

Radiocarbon dating determined that the remains dated to 13, 000 years BP, making the remains potentially the oldest-known human skeleton in North America.

In urban history, Susa is one of the oldest-known settlements of the region and the world, possibly founded about 4200 BCE.

The oldest-known Dutch Carnival festivities date from 1385 in's-Hertogenbosch.

Göbekli Tepe, located in southern Turkey, is the oldest-known, existing temple in the world.

Layard then began a political career, and Rassam continued field work ( 1852 – 1854 ) at Nimrud and Kuyunjik, where he made a number of important and independent discoveries, including clay tablets that would later be deciphered by George Smith as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest-known example of written literature.

* PGA Museum of Golf ( Port St. Lucie, Florida ) — Museum traces the story of The PGA of America, holds golf's four major Championship trophies, the oldest-known written mention of golf for the Articles of Parliament in the 15th Century ; Walter Hagen's birth certificate ; Donald Ross ' 1900s-era workbench, the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame, and is home to the Probst Library, one of the foremost collections of golf periodicals in the world.

The oldest-known magnetic substance, magnetite ( iron ( II, III ) oxide ; Fe < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 4 </ sub >), is a ferrimagnet ; it was originally classified as a ferromagnet before Néel's discovery of ferrimagnetism and antiferromagnetism in 1948.

This led to suggestions that the plate, considered important as the oldest-known written artefact from Australia's European history, should be acquired for an Australian museum, but the Dutch authorities have made it clear that the plate is not for sale.

The oldest-known written record of the tendon being named for Achilles is in 1693 by the Flemish / Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen.

Arnhem Land has been occupied by indigenous people for tens of thousands of years and is the location of the oldest-known stone axe, which scholars believe to be 35, 500 years old.

File: VOC aandeel 9 september 1606. jpg | The oldest-known share in the European stockmarket is shown in the Westfries Archief in Hoorn.

The oldest-known written evidence of a sundae is Platt & Colt's newspaper ad for a " Cherry Sunday " placed in the Ithaca Daily Journal on April 5, 1892.

The oldest-known extant orangery in American can be seen at the Wye Plantation, near Tunis Mills ( Easton ), Maryland.

Litkicks, run by Levi Asher is the oldest-known literary blog of its kind and also remains active.

The Linzer Torte recipe is the oldest-known in the world.

Following the death of the 112-year-old Marion Higgins of Seal Beach on March 2, 2006, it was believed that George Johnson had become the oldest-known living Californian – a distinction he held until his own death at 112 as well.

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

Later, gourds, watermelons, castor beans, and cotton were also collected and domesticated.

They were still hunters, but had domesticated animals ; they were fairly skillful metallurgists, casting bronze in moulds of stone and clay, and they were also agriculturists, cultivating beans, the vine, wheat and flax.

At least four of the species have been domesticated since pre-Columbian times for their beans.

Corn, beans and squash were among the earliest crops domesticated in Mesoamerica, with maize beginning about 7500 BC, squash, as early as 8000 to 6000 BC and beans by no later than 4000 BC.

They were still hunters, but had domesticated animals ; they were fairly skillful metallurgists, casting bronze in moulds of stone and clay, and they were also agriculturists, cultivating beans, the vine, wheat and flax.

They remained hunters, but also had domesticated animals ; they were fairly skilful metallurgists, casting bronze in moulds of stone and clay ; they were also agriculturists, cultivating beans, grapes, wheat and flax.

The European and Asian lifestyle included a long history of sharing close quarters with domesticated animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, and various domesticated fowl, which had resulted in epidemic diseases unknown in the Americas.

There is archaeological evidence at sites located in southwestern Ecuador that chili peppers were domesticated more than 6000 years ago, and is one of the first cultivated crops in the Central and South Americas that is self-pollinating.

The Americas had difficulty adapting crops domesticated at one latitude for use at other latitudes ( and, in North America, adapting crops from one side of the Rocky Mountains to the other ).

However, following the accidental release, the African queens and drones mated with domesticated local non-African queens and drones, and their descendants have since spread throughout the Americas.

In both Australia and the Americas, modern " wild " horses descended from domesticated horses brought by European explorers and settlers that escaped, spread, and thrived.

Before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, llamas and alpacas were the only domesticated ungulates of the continent.

The Americas extend mainly north and south, which, according to the environmental determinist theory popularized by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, meant that it was much harder for cultivated plant species, domesticated animals, and diseases to migrate.

Other species of wild bovines were also domesticated, namely the wild water buffalo, Gaur, and Banteng.

The first cereal grains were domesticated about 12, 000 years ago by ancient farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region.

In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran ( which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran ).

Two seed plants, black-eyed peas and voandzeia ( African groundnuts ) were domesticated, followed by okra and kola nuts.

Just prior to Saharan desertification, the communities that developed south of Egypt in what is now modern-day Sudan were full participants in the Neolithic revolution and lived a settled to semi-nomadic lifestyle, with domesticated plants and animals.

" Cotton was woven and dyed for clothing ; wheat, rice, and a variety of vegetables and fruits were cultivated ; and a number of animals, including the humped bull, were domesticated ," as well as " tribes domesticated fowl for fighting ".

Feminists, beginning in the late 18th century with Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792 have criticized Rousseau for his confinement of women to the domestic sphere — unless women were domesticated and constrained by modesty and shame, he feared " men would be tyrannized by women ... For, given the ease with which women arouse men's senses ... men would finally be their victims ...." His contemporaries saw it differently because Rousseau thought that mothers should breastfeed their children.

Various carp species were originally domesticated in East Asia, where they were used as food fish.

During the 6th – 5th millennium BC, various animals were domesticated, dwellings became more sophisticated and could shelter larger families.

The animals which are now the principal sources of meat were domesticated in conjunction with the development of early civilizations:

* Sheep, originating from western Asia, were domesticated with the help of dogs prior to the establishment of settled agriculture, likely as early as the eighth millennium BC.

* Cattle were domesticated in Mesopotamia after settled agriculture was established about 5000 BC, and several breeds were established by 2500 BC.

Emmer wheat was domesticated, and animals were herded and domesticated ( animal husbandry and selective breeding ).

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia ( from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex ), where they were domesticated 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.