Das Gebiet nördlich von Rom, begrenzt durch die Flüsse Tiber und Arno und das Tyrrhenische Meer. Die Etrusker bewohnten das Gebiet und kolonisierten Aleria, die Poebene und Teile Kampaniens. Das Gebiet ist reich an Gold, Eisen und Bronze. Die Toten wurden in unterirdischen Gräbern oder Grabhügeln...
Roma'nın kuzeyinde, Tiber ve Arno Nehirleri ile Tireniyen Denizi arasında kalan bölge. Etrüskler bu bölgede yaşadılar ve Aleria, Po Vadisi ve Campania'nın bazı bölgelerini kolonileştirdiler. Bölge altın, demir ve bronz açısından zengindir. Ölüler yer altı mezarları veya tümülüslerde çeşitli cenaz...
An important excavated rock shelter in the Maros region of southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, with a sequence starting c9000 be that illustrates the development of the Toalian microlithic industry after 5000 bc.
Small, red, painted figures in scenes of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, named for Joseph Bradshaw who discovered them.
See Inca, Tarascan.
Roman name for an Alpine region, later a province, situated south of the Danube, roughly in the area of modem Austria. Earlier Illyrian in culture, the region came under Celtic influence from the 3rd century bc, and the name Noricum is thought by some to derive from the Celtic Norici centred arou...
A series of settlements of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Baluchistan, Pakistan, important as the earliest farming site known in the area, perhaps dating to before 6000 be. Subsequent phases in the 4th and 3rd millennia show a developing society, characterized by craft specialization (...
Small kingdom which appeared in western Turkey in the 1st millennium bc known to the Assyrians as Luddu. By about the 7th century bc it was an important staging post in trade between the Aegean and the oriental civilizations. Its capital at Sardis became rich, exploiting the gold of the nearby Pa...
An area on the southern coast of Turkey which became a kingdom in the 1st millennium bc. Groups identified as Lycians are mentioned in the 14th century bc Amarna letters as pirates in the East Mediterranean, and were later among the Peoples of the Sea who attacked Egypt. Little is known about the...
The royal pyramid cemetery of the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (see Dynastic Egypt), near modem Cairo. Derived from earlier tomb types as seen at Saqqara, the Giza pyramids represent the peak of the concentration of resources on pharaonic funerary monuments. The largest pyramid, that of Khufu,...
A region of spectacular riceterracing, belonging to the Ifugao people of the Mountain Province of northern Luzon, Philippines. The terraces extend like giant steps up mountain sides and are of unknown antiquity, although they were considered by anthropologist Felix Keesing to have been constructe...
Geographically, Babylonia refers to southern Mesopotamia, the southern part of modem Iraq, lying between Baghdad and the Gulf. Babylonia is a flat alluvial plain formed by the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which made this arid region one of the richest agricultural areas of the ...
A mountainous region of northwest Asia, part of present-day Turkey, it is bounded by the Pontine mountains in the north and the Zagros mountains in the south. Rich alluvial deposits in Pleistocene lakes left much fertile land when the water receded. This fact, combined with the rainfall which was...
The farming population of the Tohoku region (the northern districts of Honshu) of Japan.
Ancient and modern region of the southeastern Balkans; in ancient times, the part north of Greek settlement extending to the Black Sea. In the 5th century BC, it included modern Bulgaria and Romania. Most Thracians became subject to Persia in c 516-510 BC. It was assimilated (356-342 BC) by Phili...
Upper Palaeolithic site in Tomsk, western Siberia, with a small assemblage of burins and retouched blades, c 18,300 bp. It is a rare kill site in Palaeolithic Russia.
Important site of a series of settlements of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Baluchistan, western Pakistan, important as the earliest farming site known in the area, perhaps dating from the 8th-6th millennia BC. The earliest phase was aceramic and the evidence at Mehrgarh provides a cle...
Important rock shelter in the Maros region of southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, with a sequence c 8000-6000 BC in the early Holocene. It illustrates the development of the Toalian microlithic industry, with flake and bone tools.
Iron Age polity (kingdom) in the eastern Alps, with its seat in Magdalensberg, Austria. The region comprised modern central Austria and parts of Bavaria. Earlier Illyrian in culture, the region came under Celtic influence from the 3rd century BC, and the name Noricum is thought by some to derive ...
Ancient kingdom of southwestern Anatolia (Turkey), located on the Mediterranean coast between Caria and Pamphylia and extending to the Taurus Mountains, with its capital in Xanthos. In the Amarna letters of the 14th-13th centuries BC, the Lycians are described as living between the Hittites on th...
An ancient region occupying southern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (southern Iraq from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf), whose capital was Babylon for many centuries. The term Babylonia also refers to the culture that developed in the area from its original settlement c 4000 BC ...
The area to the north of Rome, bounded by the Tiber and Arno Rivers and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Etruscans inhabited the area and colonized Aleria, the Po Valley, and parts of Campania. The area is rich in gold, iron, and bronze. The dead were buried in underground tombs or tumuli and were accompa...
Steppe region south of the Gobi desert along the northern edge of agricultural China, comprising Inner Mongolia, the Ordos, and southern Dongbei regions. This zone had several nomadic Bronze Age cultures during the 1st millennium BC.
The site of the pyramid complexes of the Egyptian kings Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure on the west bank of the Nile opposite modern Cairo. It is most famous for the Great Pyramid of Khufu, two only slightly smaller pyramids, the Great Sphinx (statue of a human-headed lion) and its temple, and the to...
Kenyan Pastoral Neolithic pottery tradition. There is a northern faces in the Turkana region and a southern facies in Nakuru Basin.
Core region of Honshu island, Japan, consisting of Yamato, Kawachi, Izumi, Settsu, and Yamashiro - which now make up parts of Nara, Osaka, and Kyoto prefectures.
Small, red painted figures in scenes of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, named for Joseph Bradshaw who discovered them.
Large painted sandstone rock shelter in Piauí region of Brazil with hearths of c 47,500 bp. The rock art is dated from 12,000-17,000 bp. There was some post-Palaeoindian occupation.
Highland region of west-central Sumatra with obsidian microliths similar to Tianko Panjang of the mid-Holocene and Dong Son bronze items of the later centuries BC.
Prehistoric Andean province and the language by its Inca empire people; it became official Inca language. Several dialects are still spoken in Peru and Bolivia and it was used for government and all communications between provinces under Inca rule. The term Quechua also refers to the Andean ecozo...
Sites in the Santa Elena peninsula region of southeast coastal Ecuador with unifacial stone gravers, denticulates, spokeshaves; cobble choppers and pestles c 5000 BC.
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