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  Ancient Tiahuanaco c. 300 BCE

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  Ancient Tiahuanaco c. 300 BCE

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  The site of Tiahuanaco on Lake Titicaca in the Andean altiplano was first settled almost 4,000 years ago. The major constructions of apparent ceremonial significance date to around 300 BCE, and it appears to have developed regional significance as a place of veneration and pilgrimage. Around 400 CE religious power... More
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  Catal-Huyuk c. 6000 BCE

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  Catal-Huyuk c. 6000 BCE

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  Catal-Huyuk was a huge settlement established c. 6000 BCE in south-central Anatolia. It is one of the largest and most advanced Neolithic sites ever uncovered and is represents the shift from nomadic life into permanent settlements. Catal-Huyuk is thought to have grown as farming began to flourish, with the region’s... More
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  Chiefdoms of the Mississippi c. 1500 BCE–400 CE

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  Chiefdoms of the Mississippi c. 1500 BCE–400 CE

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  Watson Brake, in northern Louisiana, is the oldest example of the mound-building cultures that would come to dominate the Mississippi river basin. Initiated in around 3500 BCE, 11 mounds form an oval 900 feet (274 m) across. Nearby Poverty Point represents the apogee of this early phase, with six massive... More
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  Construction Phases of Athens 600 BCE–300 CE

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  Construction Phases of Athens 600 BCE–300 CE

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  While evidence of settlement of the Acropolis extends back to Neolithic times, the earliest attributable construction in Athens relates to Peisistratos, the 6th-century BCE tyrant who ruled the city. He, amongst other works, built a massive aqueduct to bring fresh water to the inhabitants. Pericles, the Athenian statesman, ushered in... More
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  Dark Age Greece 900 BCE

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  Dark Age Greece 900 BCE

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  Following the collapse of Mycenaean civilization in c. 1100 the major settlements were abandoned and the Greek population dropped dramatically. People lived in small groups, farming in villages, or adopting a nomadic lifestyle as they followed pasture and livestock, and leaving no written record behind. Weaving, pottery-making and metal-working still... More
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  Earliest Settlements c. 8000–3500 BCE

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  Earliest Settlements c. 8000–3500 BCE

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  Between 8000–3500 BCE there was an exponential growth in population and the establishment of the first established settlements and trading routes in Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Eurasia. Farming and the use of irrigation increased food resources, primarily in valley regions around major rivers, such as the Nile, Euphrates, Tigris, Indus... More
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  Iron Age Scotland from c. 800 BCE

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  Iron Age Scotland from c. 800 BCE

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  Ironworking appears to have reached Scotland with the Celts around 800 BCE, possibly arriving from Ireland. An eclectic range of habitations date to the period. Crannogs, conical dwellings built on wooden piled platforms over water (lochs and estuaries) were clustered in the Western Isles, Argyll and Galloway. Brochs, two-storey, hollow-walled... More
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  Megalithic Europe c. 3000 BCE

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  Megalithic Europe c. 3000 BCE

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  Megalithic monuments and extensive chambered tombs have been found at many sites in western Europe, but are often remote and peripheral: along the Atlantic coasts, the Northern Isles of Scotland and the islands of the Mediterranean. The variety is immense, comprising chambered cairns, long barrows, dolmen, cromlech, galleried graves and... More
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  Minoan Crete c. 1500-1250 BCE

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  Minoan Crete c. 1500-1250 BCE

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  The island of Crete was first settled, probably from Asia Minor, in about 3000 BCE. The distinctive and highly advanced civilization that evolved there by the end of the third millennium, was palace-based, with each palace administering a substantial farming hinterland and trading network. Sir Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who... More
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  Pre-urban Rome 9th–8th century BCE

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  Pre-urban Rome 9th–8th century BCE

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  The Rome foundation legend of Romulus and Remus maintains the brothers were the abandoned grandsons of Numitor, a king of Alba Longa (the legendary kings of Latium). The site reputedly chosen by Romulus at the foot of the Palatine Hill was located at a place where the River Tiber could... More
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  Prehistoric Egypt c. 5000–3000 BCE

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  Prehistoric Egypt c. 5000–3000 BCE

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  From c. 5000 BCE, drought and the desertification of northeast Africa caused nomadic cattle herders to gravitate toward the Nile flood plains, creating separate kingdoms spanning the Nubian desert to the delta. The first settlements kept livestock, practised agriculture and used simple clay pottery. Excavations show that in the Early... More
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  Prehistoric Sites from 1.5 million years BP

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  Prehistoric Sites from 1.5 million years BP

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  The earliest evidence of humans in India dates to approximately 1.5 million years ago in fragments of fossil tools found in Attirampakkam and Krishna, in southeast and southern central India respectively. A partial human skull, probably Homo Erectus, dating back 500,000 years has been recovered from valley of the River... More