The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean Chronology Chronology and Terminology Environment Environment History History of the Discipline Lesson 1 The Southern Greek Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Sequence at Franchthi Lesson 2 The Neolithic Cultures of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades Lesson 3 The Eutresis and Korakou Cultures of Early Helladic I-II Lesson 4 The Early Cycladic Period ...

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SARC STONE AGE REFERENCE COLLECTION SARC has been developed for the teaching department of the Institute of Archaeology(I.A.K.K.) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Institutt for Arkeologi, Kunsthistorie og Konservering Available in English og Norsk SARC is a reference program containing information about the TYPOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, RAW MATERIALS and STUDY METHODS of the Stone Age. click on icons ...

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The History of Gardening: A Timeline From Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century Noteworthy Gardens, Events, Persons, Publications, and Facts in the History of Gardening References and Web Links Organized by Time Periods Some Information about Agriculture, Farming, Culinary Arts, Botany, Horticulture, Technology, Arts and Crafts Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo March 1, 2002 From Ancient Times to ...

Aerial Archaeology in Austria. If you are interested in aerial archaeology, taking and archiving aerial photographs, photo-interpretation or mapping and visualizing sites, then you will find these pages useful.

Updated May 23, 2002. 21:09 hours, US Eastern Time For quick dissemination of archaeological information across the continents. Comparative Archaeology is an interregional approach to prehistoric culture change and communication. The Comparative Archaeology WEB is dedicated to further quick publication of archaeological information across continents. Its ultimate aim is to promote detailed ...

The Bradshaw Foundation website on anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, archeological history, ancient history, ancient civilisations, rock art and rock carvings ...

Entrance Human Prehistory: An Exhibition ver 3.0 (1996-2000) Best viewed at 800 x 600 and True Color Display The evolution of Human Species followed different stages beginning with the Australopethicus and continuing with homo habilis, homo erectus and homo sapiens. The last stages include those people who lived thousands of years ago in the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Age and are the immediate ...

From Codex Magliabechiano facsimile, University of California Press 1903) PLB143: Evolution of Crop Plants Spring Quarter Paul Gepts, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis You are visitor number since February 7th, 1997. Included in , , , Agriculture, the deliberate planting and harvesting of plants and herding of animals, is one of the greatest inventions of ...

Founded in 1935, the Prehistoric Society's interests are world wide and extend from the earliest human origins to the emergence of written records.

INTERPRETING THE FUNCTION OF STONE TOOLS by Roger Grace This is a hypertext version of the book:- Grace, R. 1989 Interpreting the Function of Stone Tools: The quantification and computerisation of microwear analysis. B.A.R. international series 474. contents CHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS CHAPTER 2: THE QUANTIFICATION OF MICROWEAR POLISHES CHAPTER 3: INVESTIGATING HAFTING TRACES WITH ...

Introduction The London Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society has published a set of projectile point type definitions in its' newsletter Kewa. They are reproduced here from the original publication to make them available to a wider audience. The point types from Southern Ontario have cultural affinities into adjacent regions especially New York State, Michigan and Ohio. Where it was ...

The Netherlands in the prehistory, England, the Middle East, the copper age, pictures from Celtic cultures ...

Welcome to the Agricultural Revolution Student Module Index Page Click on a topic below to begin. You may review the topics in any order, but the numbered sequence of topics will be easiest to follow on your first examination. There are seven topics in the module: 1. The Earth as a Solar-driven System 2. Soil: The Fundamental Resource of Civilization 3. Hunting and Gathering 4. Emergence of ...

The archaeology of European flint, chert, quartzite and similar siliceous raw materials, used in prehistory for lithic industries ...

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Welcome To DirtBrothers.org An Alternative Archaeology Activism ....A Museum (Optimized for viewing at 1024 x 768) CLEAR YOUR CACHE-- or new additions will not show up! Enter The Dirt Brothers: Can You Dig It Enter CoopnaCave: Early Man Site Enter Peotone: Caught In The Middle ...

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The Third Culture Home | Third Culture | Digerati | Reality Club Biography Threads Bibliography Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13, 000 Years A Talk By Jared Diamond Introduction by John Brockman The biggest question that Jared Diamond is asking himself is how to turn the study of history into a science. He notes the distinction between the hard ...

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Preserving Ancient Statues from Jordan at the National Museums of Asian Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

Ring of Brodgar Midsummer sunrise Midwinter sunset Midwinter sunset Midwinter sunset Brodgar runes August sunset Equinoctial sunset whole ring from west Brodgar with snow close up of monolith Ring from north Brodgar stones Midsummer sunrise Equinoctial sunset Equinoctial sunset Equinoctial sunset Comet Stone & Ring Brodgar moonrise Summer evening aerial Aerial view with snow ...

The Clovis First / Pre-Clovis Problem by Tony Baker November 5, 1997 The Clovis First / Pre-Clovis subject is controversial and because of that I have delayed writing my opinions on the subject. However, the creation of the WEB page Art and the Folsom Point caused me to go public on the subject. I could have easily omitted one paragraph in that page and then I could have delayed this page, again.

Pleistocene Mammals in the Russian Paleontological Institute Because Russia is so far north, most of its territory was covered by glaciers during the Pleistocene ice ages. As a result there are many geological deposits from this time period that contain fossil mammals. Many of the most famous Pleistocene mammals remains are from Russia, including frozen mammoths that still contain stomach ...

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Lesson 2: The Neolithic Cultures of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades GENERAL THE NEOLITHIC SEQUENCE IN THESSALY Aceramic Neolithic Early Neolithic (ca. 6000-5300 b.c.) Middle Neolithic (or Sesklo culture ) (ca. 5300-4400 b.c. at Sesklo itself) Late Neolithic (ca. 4300-3300 b.c.) Final Neolithic (ca. 3300-2500 b.c.) THE NEOLITHIC SEQUENCE IN CRETE Aceramic Neolithic (from before 6000 to 5700 b.c.

THE PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF WEASEL CAVE, NORTH CENTRAL CAUCASUS NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA. Dr. Nazim Hidjrati Department of Archaeology North Ossetia State University Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Russia Dr. Larry Kimball Department of Anthropology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina, USA Dr. Todd Koetje Department of Anthropology Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, ...

A variety of essays on human prehistory, from our earliest ancestors to various Old and New World civilizations. Terminology chapter follows.

Lithic Technology The University of Tulsa Department of Anthropology 600 S. College Tulsa, OK 74104-3189 EDITOR George Odell University of Tulsa Production Assistant Frieda Vereecken-Odell University of Tulsa Editorial Board Jeanne Arnold, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. John L. Fagan, Archaeological Investigations NW, Portland, OR, U.S.A. Gabriel Fernandez, Universidad de Granada, Espa a Thomas R.

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Prehistoric times in Anatolia, Turkey ...

HUMAN FOSSILS New-found skull could sink our current ideas about human evolution July 2002 - Nature Magazine After a decade of digging through the sand dunes of northern Chad, Michel Brunet found a skull 6-7million years old. He named it Touma . Touma is thought to be the oldest fossil from a member of the human family. It's a dispatch from the time when humans and chimpanzee were going their ...

Ancient Neolithic Architecture in the Great Buildings Online.

Reflections on the Style-Function Debate Summary of the Style versus Function Debate in Paleoanthropology. About 200, 000 years ago hominids began making tools with greater control of the shape of the flakes. The new technique, termed Levallois, is distinguished from its predecessor, the Aucheulian, by the ability to produce flakes of a desired shape, a result of preshaping the core. The ...

The Origins of Agriculture as a Natural Experiment in Cultural Evolution Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger Do Not Cite In Any Context Without Permission Of Authors Peter J. Richerson, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, pjricherson@ucdavis.edu Robert Boyd, Anthropology Department, University of California Los ...

Lithic Technology Recently, archeologists have wrestled with reconstructing Folsom mobility and subsistence practices on the Southern Plains. Tool assemblages at kill and camp sites often include a variety of high quality lithic materials from sources separated by over 300 km. The various lithic materials manifest in any specific assemblage are interpreted as a direct indication of the past ...

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ART AND THE FOLSOM POINT November 5, 1997 This is a paper I wrote in 1984 for a class in North American Indian Art . I recently re-discovered it while going through some old records. After reading it again, I decided to include it on my WEB page because it contains some interesting concepts. Most of these concepts I still agree with, but on some my views have changed. To let the reader know my ...

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NEOLITHIC AGRICULTURE: The Slow Birth of Agriculture Heather Pringle* Science 1998 282: 1446. New methods show that around the world, people began cultivating some crops long before they embraced full-scale farming, and that crop cultivation and village life often did not go hand in hand According to early Greek storytellers, humans owe the ability to cultivate crops to the sudden generosity of ...

Ecological Role of PreHistoric Humans Corresponding Readings in Primack, Richard B. Essentials of Conservation Biology. none given Have human populations altered ecosystems and extinguished species prior to developing advanced technology We know that extinction is a natural event is it also natural for humans to be the agents of extinction, even widespread extinctions We examine these ...

Research Notes #12: The Function of Hopewell Blades from the Southeast - a research paper by Larry R. Kimball ...

Nutrition Australia provides up-to-date, unbiased, credible nutrition information for all ages. As Australia s peak nutrition education body, Nutrition Australia s site provides nutrition information, media releases, fact sheets, position papers, frequently asked questions, recipes, newsletters, booklets, a search engine and on-line food composition tables. Nutrition Australia s site is ...

Lithic Usewear Investigation Report Harney Dune (35HA718) Obsidian Artifact Assemblage Report Submitted to: Anan Raymond, Region 1 Archaeologist US Fish & Wildlife Service Order # 101810M312 by Cameron M. Smith, M.A. csmith@sfu.ca July 2000 Click for online figures of samples of tools bearing usewear. Figures by the author. (Figures 1-4 are graphs inlined in the text below): Figure 5 / Figure 6 ...

Stone Tools of Oklahoma, Arrowheads, Spear Points, Axe's, Grinding Stones.