He discovered a settlement dating back to the early bronze age, circa 2000 BC, in Warburton. |
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Last season finds included a hoard of four late bronze age socketed axes and the new art. |
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Other materials found during the digs were a flint knife, zoomorphic penannular brooch, decorated bone comb, bronze age pottery and arrowheads. |
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Swords of the bronze age were characteristically short in blade length, heavy for their size, and with a relatively blunt cutting edge. |
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The National Trust also provided funding for radiocarbon dating of the hurdle that turned out to date from the early bronze age. |
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I asked him how he managed to evoke such realism in his neolithic and bronze age settings even down to fragments of lost languages. |
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You are quite right to infer that something more seaworthy than the Dover boat carried goods by sea in the bronze age. |
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More than 10 000 carpological remains from the mainly Middle Bronze Age cultural layers of Tell Mozan have been identified so far. |
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By the Bronze Age drinking vessels were being made of sheet metal, primarily bronze or gold. |
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The first Bronze Age sun disc of its kind to be unearthed in Wales, this astronomical trinket looks authentic. |
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What made it relatively easy for Bronze Age rulers to cancel personal debts was the fact that most such debts were owed ultimately to the palace. |
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The new circle is bigger than Seahenge and has been interpreted as the remains of a Bronze Age burial mound. |
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Crowned with the ruins of a Bronze Age hill fort and a mobile-phone mast, The Wrekin is the subject of much local mythology. |
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It proved to be a Bronze Age culture, its economy well developed and prosperous but with no defensive fortifications to protect it. |
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The Eneolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Central Europe were apparently times of considerable unrest. |
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Bronze Age discoveries have been made on a Pembrokeshire headland following a moorland fire last summer. |
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The cup was discovered in 1917 in Turkey, within an amphora at the foot of an early Bronze Age tumulus. |
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Bronze Age and Neolithic pottery and flints from the basal soil and the colluvium indicate that a settlement was nearby. |
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Most of the findings there could be dated to the Bronze Age and Iron Age, but not to either the Davidic reign or the Solomonic reign. |
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Similar Bronze Age cemeteries consisting of many small barrows have been found elsewhere in Essex, for example at Ardleigh and Brightlingsea. |
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News has emerged of an exceptional Middle Bronze Age gold hoard, found in north-east Wrexham by metal detectorists. |
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The only comparisons we know are two Early Bronze Age barrows in Northamptonshire, at Irthlingborough, and Gayhurst. |
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The Urnfield cultures were a group of central European Bronze Age cultures associated with the Celts. |
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The objects date mostly from the great Bronze Age of the Bactrian civilisation. |
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Attempts to transmute other metals to gold may have been made as long ago as the Bronze Age. |
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My fellow archaeologist is an expert on this enigmatic Bronze Age rock art. |
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After the Bronze Age, Amorites, Western Semites, Hyksos and Hittites successively invaded the area. |
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The fields were thought to contain pre-historic hut circles dating from around the Iron or Bronze Age. |
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In fact the modern Yezidi religion, practiced by over 500,000, people embraces traditions that date back to the Bronze Age. |
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A second occupation lasted during the the late Bronze Age to the Urnfield period. |
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The earliest trace of the garden pea is in the relics of Bronze Age settlements in Switzerland, c. 3000 bc. |
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The study of feasting on the Greek mainland during the Middle and Late Bronze Age provides insights into the nature of Mycenaean society. |
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A number of Bronze Age cremation pits were discovered along the route and pieces of ancient pottery were unearthed. |
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The oldest known ancient monuments at Coate are the Neolithic Stone Circle and the Bronze age burial mound along Day House Lane. |
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During the Bronze Age Ireland had a significant metal industry, and exported artefacts in bronze, copper, and gold to Britain and the Continent. |
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An extensive Bronze Age settlement on the northern coast of the Cycladic island of Melos in the southern Aegean, Greece. |
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Overall it is an extremely rich concentration of late Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary monuments. |
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These are burial mounds of Bronze Age date, many from about 2000 BC to 1500 BC and they cluster in their hundreds around the Stonehenge area. |
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Excavations have revealed a complicated history which, to judge from a hoard of metalwork found in the interior, began in the later Bronze Age. |
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Also found was an unbroken half of a two-part mould for a middle Bronze Age palstave, or flanged axe. |
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Canaanites in the Early Bronze Age lived both as wandering nomads in the countryside and as settled traders in walled cities. |
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Archaeological discoveries from the Bronze Age also found that ancient Chinese calligraphers painted characters on tortoise shells. |
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Beautiful Anglo-Saxon jewellery, beakers made by the Bronze Age people, flints and pottery will all be part of the exhibition. |
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The designs on Bronze Age metalwork and rock carvings show boats with a beak at the prow. |
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Probably first built in the late Bronze Age, about 3,000 years ago, it is likely to have been reoccupied by a Pictish chieftain. |
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These are the nuraghi, patriarchal fortress-villages dating back to Sardina's flourishing Bronze Age. |
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Roman-period burials and other finds are fairly common on the sites of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. |
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The ability to shape wood improved with technological advances from the stone age to the bronze age to the iron age. |
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The unique disc-bead necklace, made of cannel coal and jet, was found beside the remains of a child's skeleton in one of three early Bronze Age stone tombs. |
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The area is of archaeological note as it is rich in neolithic and bronze age remains. |
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In Folkestone, a pillbox was built into a Bronze Age tumulus. |
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Amongst the thirty recognised Bronze Age mine sites in the British Isles, fahlerz minerals are present in ore quantities only at Ross Island, Killarney, Ireland. |
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Knowledge of the new alloy spread slowly, mainly because of the scarcity of tin, so the Bronze Age tends to have widely different dates in different parts of the world. |
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The Bronze Age mounds of Sistan, also strongly reduced in their size by aeolian action, rise on the takyr as isolated pillars, not unlike the yardangs around them. |
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We can see this important change at Nosterfield Quarry, immediately to the north, where Bronze Age field ditches and single pit alignments were discovered. |
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We thought the site was probably Middle Bronze Age, but we had no proof. |
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But over that winter we produced something like 600 sherds of pottery, a collection of late Bronze Age metalwork, spindlewhorls, loom weights, and animal bone. |
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Prehistoric settlers probably drifted here by accident, blown from the coast of France by the north wind, their descendants creating a rich Bronze Age culture. |
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The spearhead is unexpected, however, since spears, although associated in Bronze Age iconography with hunting and warfare, do not feature in depictions of sacrifice. |
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The Hanson Log Boat was a bronze age boat found in a gravel pit in Shardlow in Derbyshire. |
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Spectacular finds made by metal detectorists over recent months include a Bronze Age gold cup in Kent and an Anglo-Saxon gold-and-garnet sword mount in Suffolk. |
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A METAL detecting enthusiast has unearthed a 3,000-year-old bronze age axe in a farmer's field. |
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Similarly, the racial character of the Neolithic and Bronze Age inhabitants of England is uncertain, although we do know that by the Roman era many were Celts. |
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Within one of the roundhouses, but almost certainly unknown to its Iron Age inhabitants, was the burial of a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age child. |
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There are drowned Bronze Age field systems in the Scilly Isles. |
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Beginning in 2005, Marf Zamua began to document Late Bronze Age and Iron Age sites that were revealed during a period of unrest. |
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After carbon-dating the artifact, the archaeologist determined that it was of late bronze age manufacture. |
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In the first place in going back to the bronze age, we already find ourselves beyond the reach of history or even of tradition. |
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Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood. |
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They nurse the icon of an eternal ethnic Georgia whose cultural and political continuity stretches back unbroken to the Bronze Age and probably beyond. |
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The significance of these stones, which are common features over much of Bronze Age Europe, has long been the subject of debate among prehistorians. |
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The trumpet shaped terminations of various types of Bronze Age Irish jewellery are also reminiscent of motifs popular in later Celtic decoration. |
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During the late Bronze Age the island experienced two waves of Greek settlement. |
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In the later Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, under the Minoans, Crete had a highly developed, literate civilization. |
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After the Bronze Age collapse, Crete was settled by new waves of Greeks from the mainland. |
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It is unique in northern Europe, bearing similarity to Neolithic or Bronze Age tombs around the Mediterranean. |
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A Neolithic and Bronze Age site at the Links of Noltland is in the care of Historic Scotland. |
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Although there are several Bronze Age sites on the island, they provide less dramatic remains. |
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Dover Bronze Age boat is one of fewer than 20 Bronze Age boats so far found in Britain. |
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This would place its origin around 1500 BC, in the Middle Bronze Age in England. |
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These regions were connected via the Silk Road trade route, and they have a pronounced Iron Age period following the Bronze Age. |
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Innovation of the technique of smelting ore ended the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age. |
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The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. |
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Cranborne Chase, which straddles the border, has, like Salisbury Plain, yielded much Stone Age and Bronze Age archaeology. |
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The earliest signs of occupation on Gugh are two groups each, of entrance graves and Bronze Age cairns. |
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Some deforestation took place at that time, although during the Bronze Age, beginning in 2200 BCE, this became more widespread and systematic. |
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One barrow has been the subject of archaeological interest, and is thought to be from the Bronze Age. |
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Some fine examples of Bronze Age gold torques are made of very consistent gold wire, which is more malleable than bronze. |
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The subsequent Bronze Age civilizations of Greece and the Aegean Sea have given rise to the general term Aegean civilization. |
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The earliest boats discovered date from the Bronze Age and are constructed of hollowed out logs or sewn planks. |
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Late Bronze Age ships, such as the Uluburun Shipwreck have been discovered in the Mediterranean, constructed of edge joined planks. |
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Terry Gunnell and many others have noted various archaeological finds of ritual wagons in Denmark dating from 200 AD and the Bronze Age. |
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Succeeding the Nordic Bronze Age, the Iron Age developed in contact with the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe. |
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Iron products were also known in Scandinavia during the Bronze Age, but they were a scarce imported material. |
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Bronze continued to be used for torcs and kettles, the style of which were continuous from the Bronze Age. |
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As the transition from the middle Bronze Age to the Urnfield culture was gradual, there are questions regarding how to define it. |
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This has led some scholars to believe in serious droughts during the late Bronze Age. |
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The culture evolved out of the Nordic Bronze Age, through influence from the Halstatt culture farther south. |
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It was characterized by its use of cremation burials in extensive urnfields and links with the practices of the Northern Bronze Age. |
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The application of stratigraphy to archaeology first took place with the excavations of prehistorical and Bronze Age sites. |
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Thynghowe is an Old Norse name, although the site may be older than the Danelaw, perhaps even Bronze Age. |
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The oldest fleshed bog body is that of Cashel Man, who dates to 2000 BCE during the Bronze Age. |
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Stone weapons gave way to Bronze Age weapons, and later, the Iron Age weapons. |
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In this way Thor, as well as Odin, may be seen to continue the cult of the sky god which was known in the Bronze Age. |
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The Bronze Age is the time period in which humans around the world began to use bronze as a major metal in tools. |
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This Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement is unrelated to medieval city development. |
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Bahrain was home to the Dilmun civilization, an important Bronze Age trade centre linking Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. |
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A shared elite culture evolved in this region during the Atlantic Bronze Age. |
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They usually represent cup and ring marks, labyrinths, deer, Bronze Age weapons, and riding and hunting scenes. |
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It is usually considered a local evolution of the Atlantic Bronze Age, with later developments and influences and overlapping into the Roman era. |
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The first iron production started in the Middle Bronze Age but it took several centuries before iron displaced bronze. |
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In Crete the Minoan civilization had entered the Bronze Age by 2700 BCE and is regarded as the first civilization in Europe. |
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All of these temperatures could be reached with ancient methods used since the Bronze Age. |
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The earliest signs of human settlement in the valley have been found at Ullock, where evidence of a Bronze Age burial site has been found. |
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Remains of agricultural settlements from the Bronze Age have been found near the shores of Coniston Water. |
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There are a number of round barrows and bell barrows in various locations, mostly dating to the Bronze Age. |
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They were in use from the late Neolithic to the end of the early Bronze Age, and are found in England and Scotland. |
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The South Pennines provide evidence of Mesolithic, the late Bronze Age and Iron Age findings. |
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The area was then covered by forest which Neolithic and Bronze Age settlers began to clear. |
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Cheetham Close above Edgworth is the site of a destroyed Bronze Age megalith and is a scheduled ancient monument. |
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Two Bronze Age burial mounds are on Mynydd Garthmaelwg, the opposite side of the Ely Valley. |
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The stone circle has been carbon dated as being from the bronze age. |
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Kassite conquerors terminated the Babylonian era at the turn of the second millennium BC and introduced a bronze age characterised by relative cultural stagnation. |
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It contains the remains of an early Bronze Age ruler laid out on white quartz pebbles and birch bark. |
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It was also discovered for the first time that early Bronze Age people placed flowers in their graves. |
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The majority of the prehistoric remains on Dartmoor date back to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. |
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In 1999, the remains of a Bronze Age bridge were found on the foreshore north of Vauxhall Bridge. |
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The different eras are termed mesolithic, neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. |
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This latter group overlapped with the Corded Ware Culture and other groups of the Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. |
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Beaker culture introduces the practice of burial in single graves, suggesting an Earlier Bronze Age social organisation of family groups. |
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The carvings are difficult to date, but are morphologically similar to late Bronze Age weapons. |
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The archeological period where bronze was the hardest metal in widespread use is known as the Bronze Age. |
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The impact was so pervasive that scholars traditionally divide ancient history into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. |
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During the later Bronze Age there are indications of new ideas influencing land use and settlement. |
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Trade links developed in the Bronze Age and beforehand provided Great Britain with numerous examples of continental craftsmanship. |
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It is a Norse word, although the site may be older still, perhaps even from the Bronze Age. |
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The region was heavily populated during the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age periods. |
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It is not until the Bronze Age that real signs of agriculture and settlement are found in the county. |
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A series of Bronze Age stone cairns are closely associated with the standing stones. |
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There is some scattered evidence of Late Mesolithic to Bronze Age activity in Ely such as Neolithic flint tools, a Bronze Age axe and spearhead. |
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Early Bronze Age Britons buried their dead beneath earth mounds known as barrows, often with a beaker alongside the body. |
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It is thought tin was mined here as early as the Bronze Age, and copper, lead, zinc and silver have all been mined in Cornwall. |
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The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era and the beginning of the Bronze Age, until around the Roman times in Corsica. |
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Several Bronze Age round barrows were opened by John Skinner in the 18th century. |
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The best examples of the Bronze Age Greece palace are seen in the excavations at Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos. |
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The remains of a Roman wall were found behind the crescent and evidence of possible Iron and Bronze Age settlement on the lawn in front. |
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After the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age, migrants introduced a Celtic language and culture. |
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Traces of later Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements have been found on Castle Rock, Arthur's Seat, Craiglockhart Hill and the Pentland Hills. |
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Evidence of Bronze Age and early Iron Age settlements can be found in many locations around the island. |
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Cladh Hallan, a Bronze Age settlement on South Uist is the only site in the UK where prehistoric mummies have been found. |
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It is possible that Apodemus was introduced from Orkney where a population has existed since at the least the Bronze Age. |
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In the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age pitchstone from the Isle of Arran or items made from it were transported around Britain. |
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Archaeological finds are mostly confined to the Gower Peninsula, and include items from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. |
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Bronze Age fishermen settled around the fertile estuary of the River Usk and later the Celtic Silures built hillforts overlooking it. |
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Judaism has its roots as a structured religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age. |
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It seems that the Arcadian myth is related with the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the Bronze Age. |
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But, as latest excavations have shown, the area around the main court of Burghausen's castle has at least been inhabited since the Bronze Age. |
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From the Bronze Age there are examples of carvings, including the first representations of objects, and cup and ring marks. |
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On 11 August 2009 archaeologists announced that they had discovered a royal tomb from the early Bronze Age at Forteviot. |
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The cairns and megalithic monuments continued into the Bronze Age, which saw metals as an additional material. |
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It revealed the disarticulated remains of six people, dated to the Early Bronze Age or Beaker culture. |
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Worldwide, the Bronze Age generally followed the Neolithic period, with the Chalcolithic serving as a transition. |
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The usual tripartite division into an Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age is not used. |
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Ur, Kish, Isin, Larsa and Nippur in the Middle Bronze Age and Babylon, Calah and Assur in the Late Bronze Age similarly had large populations. |
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The Bronze Age on the Indian subcontinent began around 3300 BC with the beginning of the Indus Valley civilization. |
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A few examples of named Bronze Age cultures in Europe in roughly relative order. |
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The Minoan civilization based in Knossos on the island of Crete appears to have coordinated and defended its Bronze Age trade. |
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Bronze Age collapse theories have described aspects of the end of the Age in this region. |
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The Bronze Age in Central Europe has been described in the chronological schema of German prehistorian Paul Reinecke. |
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The Golasecca culture developed starting from the late Bronze Age in the Po plain. |
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Another example site is Must Farm, near Whittlesey, which has recently been host to the most complete Bronze Age wheel ever to be found. |
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Ireland is also known for a relatively large number of Early Bronze Age burials. |
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One of the characteristic types of artifact of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland is the flat axe. |
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As such, most African civilizations outside of Egypt did not experience a distinct Bronze Age. |
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Trade and industry played a major role in the development of the ancient Bronze Age civilizations. |
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It is commonly preceded by the Bronze Age in Europe and Asia and the Stone Age in Africa, with exceptions. |
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Smelted iron appears sporadically in the archeological record from the middle Bronze Age. |
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The development of iron smelting was once attributed to the Hittites of Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age. |
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Nubia was one of the relatively few places in Africa to have a sustained Bronze Age along with Egypt and much of the rest of North Africa. |
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During the Bronze Age, people continued to use local caves for shelter and for burying their dead. |
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Gold artifacts such as the golden hats and the Nebra disk appeared in Central Europe from the 2nd millennium BC Bronze Age. |
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Standing stones, most again dating to the Bronze Age, also occur in large numbers, 276 being found across the county, of which 92 are scheduled. |
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For example, a Bronze Age weaving comb was found in the Ogof yr Esgyrn cave in Glyntawe. |
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When the site was excavated in 1901 several archaeological finds led to the camp being misidentified as Bronze Age. |
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By the early Middle Bronze Age the area had developed into a centre for an innovative metalworking industry. |
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Standing stones at Huntsham, Staunton, and Trellech all have origins dating back to the Bronze Age. |
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Tudno's Church, the Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine and the summit of the Great Orme. |
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Over six hundred Bronze Age barrows and cairns, of various types, have been identified all over Glamorgan. |
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Archaeological evidence from two sites in Glamorgan shows Bronze Age practices and settlements continued into the Iron Age. |
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Finds from Llyn Fawr, thought to be votive offerings, include weapons and tools from the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. |
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The hoard has given its name to the Llyn Fawr Phase, the last Bronze Age phase in Britain. |
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The site was thought to have originated from 1500 BC in the Middle Bronze Age. |
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Around Harkerside are some small stone circles that date to the Bronze Age and some Iron Age defensive earthworks. |
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On the south side of Teesdale looms the Bronze Age burial site of Kirkcarrion. |
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Sites such as Stonehenge also provide evidence of activity from the later Bronze Age Wessex culture. |
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Henges sometimes formed part of a ritual landscape or complex, with other Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments inside and outside the henge. |
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Later monuments added after the henge was built might include Bronze Age cairns as at Arbor Low. |
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Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Bronze Age stone circle near Penrith in Cumbria, North West England. |
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If the stone circle is later than the enclosure, it is likely to be of early Bronze Age. |
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Prehistoric finds in Hornsea include a polished Neolithic stone axehead, Neolithic or Bronze Age flints, and Bronze Age flint arrowhead. |
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It is a phase of the Bronze Age before it was discovered that adding tin to copper formed the harder bronze. |
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The Copper Age was originally defined as a transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. |
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However, because it is characterized by the use of metals, the Copper Age is considered a part of the Bronze Age rather than the Stone Age. |
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However the Iron Age and Bronze Age occurred simultaneously in much of Africa. |
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The Bronze Age is the earliest period in which some civilizations have reached the end of prehistory, by introducing written records. |
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The invention of writing coincides in some areas with the early beginnings of the Bronze Age. |
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The Iron Age is not part of prehistory for all civilizations who had introduced written records during the Bronze Age. |
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A reave is a long and generally straight boundary wall made of stone that was built during the Bronze Age. |
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Stone rows were erected by the later Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples in the British Isles, parts of Scandinavia and northern France. |
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Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. |
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Near to the cross, along the crest of the ridge, are a series of low Bronze Age burial cairns and the remains of associated stone rows. |
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A presumed Bronze Age barrow, known as Emmets Post, was to be removed and three other monuments may be affected. |
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On the high moorlands are many hut circles, enclosures, and barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. |
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The third layer loaded since the Bronze Age could be of Yeniseian, it could result in a Sino-Yeniseian corpus of common etymological units. |
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A ticket to enter Knossos, the Bronze Age site on Crete, will soon cost 15 euros. |
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Experts dated the hoard to the Taunton period of the Middle Bronze Age, around 1400 to 1275 BC, meaning it is between 3,275 and 3,400 years old. |
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The gold spirals were unearthed in the Boeslunde area to the north of Skaelskoer, where several Bronze Age gold artefacts had been found. |
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A simpler stock-handling system, also of Bronze Age date, is identified at the Storey's Bar Road subsite. |
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Experts say the Copper Age or early Bronze Age decorative artefact, no bigger than a milk bottle top, is one of the most exciting finds in years. |
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The urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic era. |
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These are about 3-4x the weight of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe, 2x a palstave, 4-5x a normal spearhead and 2x a sword. |
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Just outside Heraklion you will find Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and home to the Palace of Minos. |
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Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age copper artefacts from the Balkans and their relation to Serbian copper ores. |
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A Bronze Age burial site has been discovered at the summit of the hill. |
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So, even in 1600 RCE, as the Bronze Age was progressing, a symbol existed chat continues to bind the Parsi Zoroastrians to their faith in our contemporary world. |
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The same pattern continues into the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. |
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The monuments are preserved as part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape for the information they provide regarding prehistoric people's relationship with the landscape. |
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A large-scale study of ancient genetics, published in the June 11 Nature, provides evidence for migrations and lactose intolerance in Bronze Age Eurasia. |
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Solid rivets are one of the oldest and most reliable types of fasteners, having been found in archaeological findings dating back to the Bronze Age. |
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Coast Guard lieutenant, William Walker, steals a ship loaded with modern technology from the timelost Nantucketers who have arrived in the Late Bronze Age. |
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The first archaeological evidence of horses used in warfare dates to between 4000 and 3000 BC, and the use of horses in warfare was widespread by the end of the Bronze Age. |
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The Mycenaeans gradually absorbed the Minoans, but collapsed violently around 1200 BC, during a time of regional upheaval known as the Bronze Age collapse. |
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While Egypt and Sudan due to the early civilizations of Ancient Egypt and Nubia entered historicity by the Bronze Age, the Maghreb remained in the prehistoric period longer. |
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Zachary Lockman also starts his survey in the Bronze Age, but accelerates hard to the American Empire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. |
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Later in the Bronze Age, especially in the northern parts of the island, people preferred their pots to have a clear and formal bichrome appearance. |
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The flint assemblage is also typical of the Early Bronze Age, especially in microlithic lunates, the tabular scrapers, and the microlithic drills. |
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In 396, he wiped out the last remnants of the Mysteries at Eleusis in Attica, ending a tradition of esoteric religious ceremonies that had lasted since the Bronze Age. |
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Cunnington made meticulous recordings of neolithic and Bronze Age barrows, and the terms he used to categorize and describe them are still used by archaeologists today. |
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It is possible the figure may have been a representation of Tyr, as one example of a Bronze Age rock carving appears to show a figure missing a hand. |
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The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds. |
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The Bronze Age Beaker period is noteworthy, since archeological finds seem to indicate a strong continuity with native Bronze Age traditions in Ireland as much as Britain. |
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Youngsters from Ely Presbyterian Primary School made drawings of jewelery and tools from the museum's Bronze Age collection, and made their own versions in clay. |
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The Bronze Age cafe society on the Outer Hebrides also ate cheese and butter, contrary to previous theories that they existed on meat, veg and a few hand-picked berries. |
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The archaeological legacy of the Nordic Bronze Age culture is rich, but the ethnic and linguistic affinities of it are unknown, in the absence of written sources. |
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Until more is known about the status distribution and the social structure of the late Bronze Age, this interpretation should be viewed with caution, however. |
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Noteworthy are characteristics lingering from Bronze Age, such as low tumuli containing small stone chests and pottery of equal height having a conical neck and body. |
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Funerary practices continued the Bronze Age tradition of burning corpses and placing the remains in urns, a characteristic of the Urnfield culture. |
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An example of such a site is Seahenge, a Bronze Age timber circle. |
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Since the 1980s Bronze Age stone-lined burial pits, called cists, have been exposed lodged in the cliff-side at Low Hauxley on Druridge Bay as the shoreline gradually erodes. |
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Later glyphs from the Nordic Bronze Age in Scandinavia seem to refer to some form of territorial boundary between tribes, in addition to possible religious meanings. |
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Prehistoric monuments include the Devil's Jumps, a group of Bronze Age burial mounds, and the Iron Age Cissbury Ring and Chanctonbury Ring hill forts on the South Downs. |
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Whether or not avoiding pork in the Bronze Age Middle East was a good way of escaping the wrath of God, it was a good way of escaping the risk of trichinosis. |
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The abundance of different cultural elements that persisted towards the end of the Bronze Age, show a clear continuity of different regional and intrusive traditions. |
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Byblos is attested as an archaeological site from the Early Bronze Age. |
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The Bell Beaker phenomenon in the Iberian Peninsula defines the late phase of the local Chalcolithic and even intrudes in the earliest centuries of the Bronze Age. |
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The Chalcolithic by convention is the initial period of the Bronze Age. |
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Koch and others have proposed that the origins of the Celtic languages are to be sought in Bronze Age Western Europe, especially the Iberian Peninsula. |
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All this demonstrates that the area analysed is part of a network of communication on a European scale linked to the Atlantic Bronze Age and the Urnfield complex. |
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Following the climate deterioration in the late Nordic Bronze Age, Celtic Gaul was invaded in the 5th century BC by tribes later called Gauls originating in the Rhine valley. |
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The earliest evidence of settlement in Penzance is from the Bronze Age. |
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Viewshed analysis of Bronze Age burial mounds in western Scania, Sweden. |
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The Beaker culture was followed in the early Bronze Age by the Bonnanaro culture which showed both reminiscences of the Beaker and influences by the Polada culture. |
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In Bronze Age Malta, some settlements also began to be fortified. |
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In 1912 a hoard of 24 late Bronze Age weapons and tools was discovered during construction work at the Llyn Fawr reservoir, at the source of the Rhondda Fawr. |
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Hall recorded a Middle Bronze Age palstave nearby and reminded readers that the poorly provenanced Coveney shield hoard came from the same parish. |
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Because as you are going to discover very shortly, what's under there is no Bronze Age chieftain, no medieval king, or whatever else you expect to find in a fogou like this. |
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There are 1130 identified burial mounds within the county, of varying styles and ages, dating from 4000BC to 1000BC, most of them belonging to the Bronze Age. |
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There is evidence that a settlement existed in Ruabon in the Bronze Age. |
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Integrated geological, petrologic and geochemical approach to establish source material and technology of late Cypriot Bronze Age Plain White ware ceramics. |
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The second phase of construction consisted of a raising in height of the cairn and contained a large cist considered as Early Bronze Age, however, no human remains were found. |
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Gower is also home to menhirs or standing stones from the Bronze Age. |
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No written language existed in the Nordic countries during the Bronze Age. |
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The Bronze Age in Ireland commenced around 2000 BC, when copper was alloyed with tin and used to manufacture Ballybeg type flat axes and associated metalwork. |
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Bernard is one of the most ancient passes through the Western Alps, with evidence of use as far back as the Bronze Age and surviving traces of a Roman road. |
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Two burial mounds dating from the Bronze Age are located near the peak. |
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In contrast, in Bronze Age samples cranial traumas are concentrated in males, and both cranial and postcranial traumas in the Iron Age are more frequent among males. |
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Neolithic tools have also been found in the River Roch near Bury and in Radcliffe, and Bronze Age burial sites have been found in Bury and Shuttleworth. |
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After the Ice Age, the Wear valley became thickly forested, however during the Neolithic period and increasingly in the Bronze Age, were largely deforested for agriculture. |
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For instance, the graph of the Early Bronze Age sites shows that the relative frequency of caprines in regions 1, 2, and 3 does not differ significantly. |
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The Atlantic Bronze Age was defined by a number of distinct regional centres of metal production, unified by a regular maritime exchange of some of their products. |
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The Castellieri culture developed in Istria during the Middle Bronze Age. |
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At the end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean region, the Mycenaean administration of the regional trade empire followed the decline of Minoan primacy. |
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Illyrians are also believed to have roots in the early Bronze Age. |
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The Indian Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age Vedic Period. |
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Although the Korean Bronze Age culture derives from the Liaoning and Manchuria, it exhibits unique typology and styles, especially in ritual objects. |
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The Nordic Bronze Age period in Denmark, from about 1,500 BC, featured a culture which buried its dead, with their worldly goods, beneath burial mounds. |
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Evidence of later Roman and Celtic activity is confirmed by an ancient Roman road and Bronze Age archaeological relics found at various sites within the town. |
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Near Norththorpe, north of Hornsea crop marks indicate a site interpreted as a Neolithic henge monument, thought to have been later reused as a Bronze Age ringwork. |
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Memphis in the Early Bronze Age was the largest city of the time. |
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The comments express both acceptance of, and doubts about, interconnectedness between the eastern Mediterranean and Scandinavia in the Bronze Age. |
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Bronze Age cultures differed in their development of the first writing. |
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Bronze itself is harder and more durable than other metals available at the time, allowing Bronze Age civilizations to gain a technological advantage. |
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North Africa and the Nile Valley imported its iron technology from the Near East and followed the Near Eastern course of Bronze Age and Iron Age development. |
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Several finds date to the Bronze Age, including a bronze socketed axe, two human skeletons, and sherds of pottery from burial urns and other vessels. |
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The monument is part of a cluster of Neolithic and Bronze Age features. |
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There is a 2nd or 3rd millennium BC chambered cairn, an Iron Age promontory fort and the remains of other prehistoric settlement dating from the Bronze Age nearby. |
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Pottery shards found at the important site of Jarlshof also indicate that there was Neolithic activity there although the main settlement dates from the Bronze Age. |
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But this is now doubted by most scholars, who see the languages as already present, and possibly dominant, in the Bronze Age, and perhaps earlier. |
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Northern Europe was slower than the East to develop defensive structures and it was not until the Bronze Age that hill forts developed and began to spread across Europe. |
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The monument dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age period. |
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