Asmar, Tell

Pazyryk

A group of some 40 barrows in the Altai Mountains of central Asia in Kazakhstan, dating to the 5th-3rd centuries BC. They consist of pits some 6 meters square covered with low cairns. The construction and altitude have combined to keep their contents frozen, and are thus remarkably well preserved...

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Pazyryk

Sokchang-Ri

Palaeolithic site in southern Korea (South Ch'ungch'ong province) with 12 cultural layers starting with c 20,000 bp. That layer contained obsidian scrapers, rhyolite burins, and prismatic cores.

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Sokchang-Ri

Iwajuku

The first Palaeolithic site discovered in Japan, with layers dating to 20,000 and 15,000 years old. Excavation there provided the first convincing evidence that the Japanese islands were occupied by man during Palaeolithic times. Among the finds are elongate blades, choppers, and scrapers in the ...

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Iwajuku

Dunadd

A site in Argyllshire, Scotland, which was a fort of the Kingdom of Dalriada, taken by the Picts in 683 and 736 AD. A main citadel connected to a middle courtyard by a stone wall has been located. The most important finds from Dunadd are several carved stones and imported Mediterranean pottery.

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Dunadd

Go Mun

A site in north Vietnam which has given its name to the third phase of the Bronze Age of the area, dated to c 1200-600 BC, following Dong Dau and preceding Dong Son. There was a range of bronze tools, weapons, and ornaments and polished stone adzes. The phase fell within the Phung-Nguyen culture.

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Go Mun

Khotylevo

Palaeolithic sites on the Desna River in the Ukraine. In the Middle Palaeolithic level, there are Levallois cores and bifaces. In the Upper Palaeolithic level, there are Venus figurines.

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Khotylevo

Cambodia

Neolithic peoples inhabited present-day Cambodia during the 2nd and 1st millennia BC. Stone tools have been found in terraces of the Mekong River in possible association with tektites from a shower that fell c 600,000 to 700,000 years ago. In western Cambodia there is an important Hoabinhian sequ...

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Cambodia

Mureybet

A site in the curve of the Euphrates 80 km east of Aleppo in Syria, occupied in the late-Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) and Aceramic Neolithic (to PPNB), from c 8500-6800 BC. The Natufian level had a date of 8640 +/- 140 BC. Einkorn was the staple of the villagers' diet, possibly cultivated. It is an...

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Mureybet

Gilund

A site in Rajasthan, western India, along the banks of the Banas and its tributaries of the Harappan (Indus) and post-Harappan cultures of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. Archaeological evidence indicates that early humans lived there some 100,000 years ago. It became a substantial farming village...

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Gilund

Tyre

Site on the coast of Lebanon of a chief city of the Phoenicians from c 2000 BC. It occupied a small island off the coast with two harbors. It was the parent city of Carthage and flourished until its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 574/572 BC after a long siege. Between 538-332 it was ruled by th...

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Tyre

Dendra

A Bronze Age cemetery in Greece with a Middle Helladic tumulus, Mycenaean tholos tomb (15th-14th centuries BC), and rich chamber tombs. The associated settlement may be the Mycenaean citadel of Midea.

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Dendra

Kumadzulo

An Early Iron Age village site near Victoria Falls, southern Zambia, dated between the 5th-7th centuries AD. Kumadzulo has preserved the remains of several rectangular pole and clay houses of unusually small size. There was herding of domestic animals and the presence of grindstones and iron hoes...

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Kumadzulo

Adria

A town in northeastern Italy founded by the Etruscans or the Veneti which flourished as a port on the Adriatic Sea in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It was an intersection of Etruscan and Greek trade, linking Etruria, the Po Valley, and northern Europe. The silting up of the Po and Adige deltas ca...

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Adria

Cahokia Point

This side notched , triangular arrow point has straight sides to slightly concave basal edges. A few may have slightly convex basal edges. In a addition to the side notches on the blade, usually just above the primary side notches, or it may be serrated. Points with two or three notches are the m...

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Cahokia Point

Arslan Tash

The site of the ancient city of Hadâtu, a provincial capital of the Assyrian kings of northern Syria, first excavated by the French in 1928. There was a central tell surrounded by a circular wall and a palace and temple containing fine ivories, dating from the beginning of the 8th century BC.

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Arslan Tash

Puuc

Region in the north-central region of the Yucatán, Mexico, with a distinctive Maya architectural style of 600-900 AD, the last variant of the Classic Maya culture. Its main characteristic is the use of veneer masonry to cover rubble and concrete walls, and the prefabrication of sculpted elements ...

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Puuc

Hadrian's Villa

Onion Portage

Important site in northwest Alaska containing one of the continent's longest stratigraphies; occupied from at least 8500 BP by a number of Eskimo-Siberian-Indian subcultures (American Palaeoarctic, Northern Archaic, Arctic Small Tool Traditions, Inuit cultures). The oldest industries, called Akma...

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Onion Portage

Sotira-Teppes

Southern Cyprus type site of the Neolithic II of the later 5th millennium BC. There were circular and oval stone and mud-brick houses, a simple pit-grave cemetery, and combed ware. A Chalcolithic Philia culture of the mid-3rd millennium BC was also found in nearby Sotira-Kaminoudhia. Small orname...

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Sotira-Teppes

Lubaantun

A site in the Maya Mountains southeastern periphery, which was a small Classic and Late Classic Maya center in southern Belize. It was built in the early 8th century and consists largely of ceremonial buildings. There was a sizable population and flourishing market system. Its proximity to one of...

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Lubaantun

Aeolis

A group of ancient cities of northwestern Asia Minor (west coast of Anatolia) which were founded at the end of the 2nd millennium BC by Greeks. The earliest settlements, on the islands of Lesbos and Tenedos and on the mainland between Troas and Ionia, were formed from migrations during 1130-1000 ...

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Aeolis

Bodh Gaya

A site in northeast India, famous as the scene of the Buddha's enlightenment. It was there, under the bodhi (Bo) tree, that Gautama Buddha (Prince Siddhartha) became the Buddha. Archaeological remains include an Asockan pillar, erected by Emperor Asoka in 249 BC, and a railing surrounding the tre...

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Bodh Gaya

Stellmoor

Site near Hamburg, north Germany of late glacial and post-glacial date and containing an older Hamburgian level c 13,000-11,750 BP and a later level of c 8500 BC, Ahrensburgian, with tanged points. The Ahrensburgian level also had a hoard of pine-wood arrow shafts. Both cultures were reindeer-hun...

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Stellmoor

Jordanów

A settlement and cemetery site in Silesia, southern Poland, the type site for a subgroup of the Late Neolithic Lengyel culture. Its pottery is incised or painted, and copper objects were beginning to be used - among the earliest-known from north of the Carpathians. The settlement had timber house...

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Jordanów

Spiro

A site in eastern Oklahoma of the Mississippian Tradition (Middle Mississippi) Caddo culture beginning in the 8th century AD as a village of one-room houses, and by 950 had reached its maximum extent with the addition of eight burial mounds. The eight mounds are of various sizes and one served as...

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Spiro