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Thaliades
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Library of Pergamon
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Gerger Castle Samos II
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Karayün Höyük
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Isildak Tepe
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Parion Parium Stone Tower II
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Ferhatlı Uzunoglantepe Relief
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Aphrodisias Basilica
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Myus
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Cormi Kormi
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Sidyma
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Phokaia
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Theangela
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum
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Metropolis
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Assos
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Taşköprü Inscriptions
Taşköprü Inscriptions are ancient rock inscriptions located north of Taşköprü village in Ardahan Province, Turkey. The inscriptions date back to the 1st millennium BC and belong to Sarduri II, who was a King of Urartu between 764-735 BC.
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Taşköprü Inscriptions
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Sarmizegethusa
Doğu Romanya'nın Geç Demir Çağı kasabası, MÖ 1. yüzyılda Burebista tarafından kurulan Daçya devletinin merkezi. Bir tepenin üstündeki kale, birkaç tapınak ve tapınağın bulunduğu bir kutsal alanın yanındadır.
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Zinjirli
A tell site in southeast Turkey excavated by the Germans in the late 19th century. It was important during the 2nd millennium bc under the Hittites and subsequently as an independent city state called Sam’al. It was annexed by the Assyrians in the 7th century BC and then abandoned. The town was s...
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Zinjirli
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Zhob
A valley in northern Baluchistan, Pakistan, with a number of sites of the 4th and 3rd millennia bc, of which the best known are Periano Ghundai and Moghul Ghundai. The so-called ‘Zhob cult’ phase of the 3rd millennium bc is characterized by goggle-eyed hooded female figurines of a type labelled ‘...
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Zenebi Falls
A site on the Gaya River, north of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, where outwash gravels contain a prepared core industry of ‘Middle Stone Age’ type. A radiocarbon date in the 4th millennium be for wood from the same deposit is probably not an accurate indicator of the age of the stone industry.
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Zenebi Falls
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Yarim Tepe 1
A tell site near the Caspian Sea in northern Iran. The earliest levels have a Neolithic settlement of the Turkmenian Djei-tun culture. Subsequently the site was abandoned and reoccupied in the later 4th millennium bc. It was abandoned again, possibly after a destruction, in the early 2nd millenni...
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Yanik Tepe
A tell site near Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan in northwest Iran. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dated to the mid-6th millennium be. Nine phases of occupation of this early period were recognized, characterized by rectangular mud-brick houses with plaster...
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Yahya
Tell site in the province of Kerman in southeast Iran. It was occupied from the 5th millennium bc to the 3rd, with some later occupation up to the Sassanian period. In the late 4th and early 3rd millennium bc it was an important trading centre. The main commodity traded was locally quarried steat...
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Yahya
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Wun Rok
A large Iron Age settlement mound north of Wau in the Bahr el Ghazal Province, in the Southern Region of the Sudan. Throughout the occupation, which began around the middle of the 1st millennium ad, pottery was decorated by means of a twisted cord roulette. A similar technique of pottery decorati...
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Wun Rok
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Wujin Yancheng
[Wu-chin Yen-ch’eng]. Site in southern Jiangsu province, China, of a walled city traditionally identified with the capital of the Eastern Zhou state of Yan (a different state from the Yan state in the neighbourhood of Beijing, written with a different character). Bronze ritual vessels found at Ya...
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Wujin Yancheng
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Willendorf
Loess site near Krems in lower Austria with nine Palaeolithic levels. The upper five are of Willendorfian or east Grav-ettian type including the famous venus statuette (see venus figurines), while the lower levels were closer to the Aurignacian.
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Wasit
Located half way between Basra and Kufa, Wasit was founded as a new town by Hajjaj b. Yusuf al-Thaqafi, governor of Iraq, in 703-4. Its remains occupy some three square kilometres. The only standing building is a shrine with a monumental portal flanked by minarets, datable to the 13th century. Ex...
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Viru Valley
In 1946 a multi-disciplinary team, headed by Gordon R. Willey, embarked upon a comprehensive project of survey and excavation in this Peruvian north-coast valley. Isolated archaeological work had been carried out in the valley before, but this was the first settlements pattern study conducted in ...
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Viru Valley
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Veruiamium
Present-day St. Albans, Hertfordshire, southeast England. Normally reckoned to be the third largest Roman town in Britain and situated astride Watling Street, which it spanned with monumental gateways. Starting as a small fort near Verlamio, the capital of Tasciovanus, King of the Castuvellauni, ...
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Veruiamium
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Ventana Cave
A deeply stratified site in southwestern Arizona, USA, excavated by Emil Haury. Occupation spans 10,000 to 11,000 years. Materials from the lowest levels, which included Ctovis/FoLSOM-like projectile points imply generalized hunting activity. The presence of a single mano, however, suggests some ...
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Venosa
An open Lower Palaeolithic site north of Potenza in Basilicata in southern Italy. A hand axe or Acheulian level overlies one with abundant ‘side scrapers’ (evolved Clac-tonian, Tayacian or Charentian). The date of these is not well fixed.
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Vaito’Otia
An important Early Eastern Polynesian settlement on Huahine, Society Islands, which has produced rich organic and non-organic remains of the period c850-l 100. The material culture has close parallels with that of the first Maori settlers of New Zealand. See also Hane, Maupiti, Wairau Bar.
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Vaito’Otia
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Vadastra
The eponymous tell site for a Middle Neolithic culture distributed in Oltenia, southwest Rumania, and northern Bulgaria in the late 5th millennium be. The tell has a long stratigraphy including an Aurig-nacian level, separated by a long hiatus from two Vadastra culture levels and a Salcuta cultur...
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Dendra
Orta Helladik döneme ait bir tümülüsü içerisinde barındıran (İ.Ö. 15-14. yy.) ve zengin oda mezarları bulunan Yunanistan'da bir Bronz Çağı mezarlığı.
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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...
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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. ...
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Usf-Belaia
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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...
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