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    Using Geoarchaeology to Find the Sources of Raw Materials

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    This article examines how archaeologists can use geoarchaeology to help determine the sources for the raw materials of artifacts. Figuring out where ancient people...

    The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

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    Miraculously unplundered, the Anglo-Saxon ship burial discovered at Sutton Hoo in1939 throws light on a mysterious time in English history. Discovered in the summer...

    Types of Ancient Civilisations

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    Civilisations do not spring up out of nowhere. They go through a number of stages before reaching their fully developed form. Civilisations evolve similar to...

    Islay and Loch Finlaggan

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    Few hard facts are known of Somerled, an early King of the Isles and the Lord of Argyll and Kintyre in ancient Scotland. Little...

    Summary of Social Complexity in the Nasca Civilization

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    The Nasca lines of southern Peru acted as a form of materialized ideology. These lines are made up of over 1,000 figures, covering about...

    Nasca Symbolic Objects and the Materialization of Ideology

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    An exploration of the emergence of social complexity in the Nasca civilization, through polychrome ceramics, geoglyphs, and ceremonial centers. Symbolic objects served many purposes...

    Pre-Columbian North America – Stages of Cultural Evolution

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    The diverse and complex history of North American peoples before Columbus is a story that is under-remembered; it deserves its place in American...

    Ancient Tomb Could Contain Mayan King

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    An undisturbed tomb in Guatemala found last May is possibly the final resting place of royalty. At the Guatemalan site of El Zotz, a team...

    Otzi: The Iceman

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    Otzi, also known as Oetsi, Similaun Man, The Man from Hauslabjoch and Frozen Fritz, was discovered in 1991 frozen in a glacier near the...

    The Nasca Ceremonial Center of Cahuachi

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    Cahuachi was an important means by which ideology was materialized into concrete, tangible culture for the Nasca civilization. This center is not only useful...
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