34th century BC
{{Short description|One hundred years, from 3400 BC to 3301 BC}}
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The 34th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 3400 BC to 3301 BC.
Cultures
- Stage IIIa2 of the Naqada culture in Egypt (dated in 1998).
- In the early part of Naqada III in Upper Egypt, the ruler, Horus-A, is coronated as the ruler or king of Thinis (c. 3315 BC){{cite book|last=Baker |first= Darrell D. |date=2008|title= Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs Volume 1 |chapter= Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300-1069 BC. Egypt |page= 5 |publisher= American University in Cairo Press |isbn=978-977-416-221-3 }}
- Archaic forms of cuneiform emerge in the late Uruk period in Mesopotamia.
- Burial of a child at Ashleypark Burial Mound, Ireland (c. 3350 BC){{cite book|last=Cooney|first=Gabriel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtnBBAAAQBAJ&q=Ashley+Park&pg=PA193|title=Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context|date=27 November 2014|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=978-0-8165-3114-1 }}