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Utnur Neolithic site in the central Deccan, India, occupied in the 3rd millennium bc. Four major phases of occupation were recognized. The people who occupied the site were primarily cattle-herders, probably living in huts built of branches and brush. Remains of stockades for penning the beasts were fo...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Usf-Belaia A site on the upper Angara River in the Baikal region of southern Siberia, occupied from early in the postglacial period (labelled Mesolithic) into the Neolithic (defined by the appearance of pottery, not farming). The site represents a base camp for a hunting group, occupied over a long period. ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Usatovo Culture The type site for a regional group derived from the Late Tripolye culture (Tripolye C2), distributed in the Odessa region of the south Russian steppe zone. Dated to the mid-3rd millennium bc, the barrow cemetery at Usatovo was one of the richest in the steppe zone and lay next to a stone-built se...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Architectural

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Urewe Ware The characteristic Early Iron Age pottery type of the interlacustrine region of East Africa. There are good reasons, both typological and chronometric, for regarding Urewe ware as ancestral to the varied wares of the Early Iron Age complex further south. Named after a site in southwestern Kenya, ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery, Place Names

Ulan Khada A site on the shores of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. The lowest level is assigned to a ‘Preccramic Neolithic’ phase, while later levels have pottery and arc labelled Neolithic. All levels arc associated with a hunting and gathering life-style.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Adena A widespread Native American culture of the Early Woodland period in the Ohio Valley and named after the Adena Mounds of Ross County. It is known for its ceremonial and complex burial practices involving the construction of mounds and by a high level of craftwork and pottery. It is dated from as ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Syracuse A Greek colonial settlement and principal port on the east coast of Sicily, and later capital of Roman Sicily. Earliest occupation seems to be on the island of Ortygia which helps to enclose the Great Harbour, where some early Palaeolithic material occurs. It is likely that a native settlement pr...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Swanscombe A site on the lower Thames in Kent, southern England, of major importance on account of the series of river deposits of the 30-metre terrace exposed in Barnfield Pit and elsewhere. These deposits contain useful environmental evidence, including abundant mollusc and mammal remains and large assemb...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Sumatra The prehistory of this large island of western Indonesia is little known, but recent excavations at Tianko Panjang cave in Jambi Province have yielded an obsidian flake industry dating from about 8000 be, with undated cord-marked pottery in upper layers. The Pasemah megaliths may date from the ea...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Spiro A major ceremonial centre of the Caddoan subculture of the Mississippian tradition, the climax of which was cl 3501400. Because of its abundance of paraphernalia of the Southern Cult, it is often linked to the centres at Etowah and Moundville, even though it is culturally distinct from them. The ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

South Cadbury This site in Somerset, southwest England, is one of the more important secular Dark Age sites in Britain. It is essentially an Iron Age hill fort with a complex history of abandonment and refortification continuing throughout the prehistoric, Roman and medieval periods. The 16th-century antiquari...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Sounion [Roman Sunium]. Byron’s ‘Sunium’s marbled steep’ is a classical sanctuary site on a rocky headland some 70 km southeast of Athens. It is famous for the standing columns of its mid-5th century bc marble temple to Poseidon, which make a dramatic sight and give the location its alternative title of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Snaketown An important Hohokam site in the lower Gila River valley, Arizona, USA, excavated by Emil Haury in 1964-5. A strong Mesoamerican influence is apparent throughout its occupation and architectural features include both the platform mound and the ball court. The site, occupied from the beginning of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Smolensk Excavations at Smolensk in the western USSR have begun to increase our knowledge of early medieval Russia. Stone and timber houses and five churches of the Pre-Mongol period have been discovered; colourful frescoes imitating Byzantine silks were found attached to the lower parts of the church walls.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq at an altitude of 745 metres. A small village site outside, Zawi Chemi Shanidar, has produced some evidence for early farming at the time of the Zarzian, whose levels at the summit of the cave are about 10,000 be. Beneath early Upper Palaeolithic levels are Mousterian layers...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Serra D’Alto Late Neolithic village north of Matera in southeast Italy. It has given its name to a type of pottery found in abundance here in the 4th millennium be, characterized by a fine hard buff ware with dark purplish-brown painted decoration and elaborate handles. The commonest forms are cups and jars. ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Scoglio Del Tonno An important prehistoric site which formerly occupied a promontory projecting into the harbour of Taranto, southeast Italy; it was destroyed, after excavation, when the port was extended in 1899. The site was first occupied during the Late Neolithic by people using Serra D’Alto ware. It was then ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Samate Settlement site of the Late Mesolithic Narva culture, located in the southeast Baltic province of Latvia, USSR. The single culture level has radiocarbon dates of 2950-2550 be and contains a rich collection of Narva pointed-base pottery and bone implements.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Sakçe Gözü Tell site in southeast Turkey, occupied in the Neolithic period, with a sequence of wares relating the Amuq and Halaf pottery styles. In the early 1st millennium bc the site was reoccupied and a Syro-Hittite palace erected on the northwest corner of the citadel, decorated with reliefs and inscrip...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Sabz Tell site in Khuzistan, southwest Iran, which has given its name to a phase in the prehistoric sequence. It succeeds the Muhammad Jafar phase (see Ali Kosh), though probably only after a gap; it has radiocarbon dates in the range 5500-5250 be. It is characterized by the appearance of painted pott...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Sabatinovka [Sabatinivka]. In this village near Uljanov in the western Ukraine, USSR, there are several Tripolye sites, the most important being Sabatinovka II (an early Tripolye site of the early 4th millennium be) and Sabatinovka I (a late Tripolye site yielding a knot-headed copper pin comparable to early...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Qishan [Ch’i-shan], A district in Shaanxi province, China, just west of Fufeng. The Zhou people are said to have settled at Qishan several generations before they overthrew the Shang dynasty, and Qishan remained a major centre after the founding of the Zhou dynasty. A large palace complex discovered in ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Qatna An impressive fortified city east of Homs in Syria. Excavation has found evidence of 3rd-millennium bc occupation, but the fortifications — consisting of a free-standing plaster-faced glacis (bank) — belong to the Middle Bronze Age in the early 2nd millennium bc and were probably constructed by t...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Ozette A group of sites located on the western tip of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA. Three to five centuries ago the principal site, a Makah Indian village, was completely engulfed by a mudslide which preserved several plank houses and their contents. The over 60,000 artefacts recovered, ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Oxyrhynchus An ancient Egyptian town some 11 km west of the Nile on the left bank of the Bahr Yusuf, best known for its papyri texts. Oxyrhynchus was a regional capital, and derives its name from the fish (Greek oxyrhynchus: ‘sharp-nosed’) with which the locally worshipped deity of Seth was associated. Littl...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Otzaki Neolithic tell site on the Thessalian plain of northern Greece. Early levels have yielded pottery of Impressed ware type, labelled Pre-Sesklo, but the main occupation belongs to the Middle Neolithic Sesklo culture. This stratum has rectangular mudbrick houses with internal buttresses and abundant...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Olympia At Elis in the Peloponnese, Southern Greece, was the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus and his consort, Hera, and the regular venue for the original Olympic Games. Perhaps first attracting use as an earth shrine and oracle (see Delphi and Delos), the site shows signs of continuous occupation from early ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Nok The name given to the archaeological manifestation of a very early Iron Age settlement on the southern and western slopes of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria. Attention was first drawn to the Iron Age archaeology of this area by the recovery during mining operations of numbers of fine pottery human fig...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Nitrianski Hradok A multi-phase defended settlement site of the earlier Bronze Age, located on the banks of the River Nitra, west Slovakia. Little excavation has taken place in the interior. The fort was defended by a double ditch and timber-framed rampart. TELL-like accumulation of material from substantial occup...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Neapolis See Naples.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Nasik Rock-cut Buddhist temple in the western Deccan, India, dating to the early centuries ad.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Naples Greek neapolis, ‘new city’ (a name common in antiquity). The principal Greek city of Campania, southern Italy, but probably only of modest size and importance during the Roman period. Tradition gives the settlement as a daughter colony founded by Greeks from Cumae, and a 7th-century bc date looks...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Nakada [NagadaJ. See Pre-Dynastic Egypt.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Architectural

Nakada A settlement site in the western suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, best known for the 79 pit houses of the Kofun Period. A change in heating and cooking methods was introduced in the middle of the Kofun Period, from a central hearth on the floor to a clay stove built against the wall. Various, but not num...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Architectural

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Nagyrev The type site for a regional group of the earlier Bronze Age, distributed in the lowlands of northern Hungary and dated c2300-1500 be. Most known settlement sites are tells surrounded by enclosing banks and ditches. Whilst timber-framed houses are common, clay houses with internal partitions are ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Mycenae A major citadel of the Greek Bronze Age situated in the Argolid, in the northeast Peloponnese. It was occupied in the Early Bronze Age, but became powerful in the Middle and Late Bronze Age after, it is believed, an invasion by Greek-speaking peoples. Among the most important monuments of Mycenae...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Mureybat [Mureybet, Mureybit]. A site on the middle Euphrates c80 km east of Aleppo in Syria, occupied from c8500 to 6900 be. The site went through three major occupation phases, beginning with a Natufian village of round huts and expanding to cover some three hectares with both rectangular and round hous...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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