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Encyclopedia > List of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age
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This list of archaeological sites is sorted by continent and then by the age of the site. For one sorted by country, see the list of archaeological sites sorted by country. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... European Archaeology: some of the most exciting sites in the world. ... An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology. ... It has been suggested that European archaeology be merged into this article or section. ...

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Europe

Palaeolithic

Lower

Barnfield Pit is the site of a gravel quarry near the village of Swanscombe in the north west of the English county of Kent. ... Bilzingsleben is a findspot of early palaeolithic human remains in Thuringia, Germany. ... The Clactonian is the name given by archaeologists to an industry of European flint tool manufacture which dates to the early part of the interglacial period known as the Hoxnian, the Mindell-Riss or the Holstein interglacial (300,000-200,000 years ago). ... Boxgrove is the name of a Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site discovered in a gravel quarry to the east of Chichester in the English county of West Sussex. ... Town - Clacton-on-Sea Location - Essex, England Founded - 1871 Population (1991) - 45,065 Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring Peninsula, in Essex, England. ... The Clactonian is the name given by archaeologists to an industry of European flint tool manufacture which dates to the early part of the interglacial period known as the Hoxnian, the Mindell-Riss or the Holstein interglacial (300,000-200,000 years ago). ...

Middle

Băile Herculane (Hungarian: Herkulesfürdő) is a town in Romania (Caraş-Severin county), situated in the valley of the river Cerna, between the Mehedinţi Mountains in the east and the Cerna Mountains in the west, elevation 160 meters; population 6,164 (2000). ... Map sources for Creswell Crags at grid reference SK536741 Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border, in the Midlands of England. ... Königsaue is a middle palaeolithic find spot in the district of Aschersleben-Staßfurt, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, in Germany. ... Krapina is a town in northern Croatia, center of the Krapina-Zagorje county, population 12,950 (2001). ... Mousterian is a name given by archaeologists to style of flint tools (or industry) dating to the Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age. ... The Neanderthal (Neandertal) is a small valley of the river Düssel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, near the city of Mettmann. ... Binomial name Homo neanderthalensis King, 1864 The Neanderthal or Neandertal was a species of genus Homo (Homo neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago (in the Middle Palaeolithic, early Stone Age). ...

Upper

Altamira is a cave in Spain famous for its Spanish for high view) is located near the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, 30 km west of the city of Santander. ... Aurignacian is the name of a culture of the Upper Palaeolithic present in Europe and south west Asia. ... Châtelperronian was the earliest industry of the Upper Palaeolithic in central and south western France. ... The Chauvet Cave or Chauvet-Pont-dArc Cave is a cave located near Vallon-Pont-dArc, in the Ardèche département, in southern France. ... Dolni Vestonice is a series of ice age archaeological sites, used by mammoth hunters, in the Czech Republic near the town of Brno. ... The Gravettian was an industry of the European Upper Palaeolithic. ... The Gravettian was an industry of the European Upper Palaeolithic. ... The Magdalenian, also spelt Magdalénien, refers to one of the later culture of the Upper Palaeolithic in western Europe. ... The caves of Lascaux, in France, contain some of the earliest known art, dating back to somewhere between 13,000 and 15,000 BC. The Paleolithic cave paintings consist mostly of realistic images of large animals, including aurochs, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in... The Magdalenian, also spelt Magdalénien, refers to one of the later culture of the Upper Palaeolithic in western Europe. ... The Hamburg culture (12400 BP-12100 BP, C14-years) was a late Upper Paleolithic culture of reindeer hunters during the last part of the Weichsel Glaciation. ... Mladec (Mladeč) is a village 20 km NW of Olomouc in central Moravia, Czech Republic. ... Moravia in relation to the current kraje of the Czech Republic Moravia (Czech and Slovak: Morava, German: Mähren, Polish: Morawy, Hungarian: Morvaország) is an historical region in the east of the Czech Republic. ... The Red Lady of Paviland was a fairly complete human skeleton dyed in red ochre that was discovered in 1826 by Rev. ... Aurignacian is the name of a culture of the Upper Palaeolithic present in Europe and south west Asia. ... The Solutrean industry was an advanced flint tool making style of the Upper Palaeolithic. ...

Mesolithic

Cramond is a village built on the east side of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth forming a natural harbour, now a suburb of Edinburgh. ... The Franchthi or Frankithi cave is a prehistoric site in the Greek Peloponnese. ... The Howick house Mesolithic site was found when an amateur archaeologist noticed flint tools eroding out of a sandy cliff face near the village of Howick in Northumberland. ... Lepenski Vir was an important center of Mesolithic culture located central Balkan peninsula. ... Serbia and Montenegro  â€“ Serbia    â€“ Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    â€“ Vojvodina  â€“ Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water  88,361 km²  n/a Population  â€“ Total (2002)     (without Kosovo)  â€“ Density  7. ... Star Carr is a Mesolithic archaeological site in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. ...

Neolithic

Avebury is the site of an enormous henge and stone circles in the English county of Wiltshire, surrounding a village of the same name. ... Bylany is a Danubian Neolithic settlement located around 65km (40 miles) east of Prague in the Czech region of Bohemia. ... View of a seam of Flint in the Grimes Graves excavation. ... La Hoguette is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. ... Maes Howe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney (off northern Scotland). ... Maiden Castle from the north Maiden Castle is a hill fort, mostly dating from the Iron Age, situated 2 miles south of Dorchester, in Dorset, England. ... Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in Dorset, England. ... The Medway megaliths or Medway tombs are names given to a group of Neolithic chambered long barrows and other megaliths located in the lower valley of the River Medway in the English county of Kent. ... Ring of Brodgar The Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar) is a neolithic henge and stone circle a little like Stonehenge in England. ... Silbury Hill, part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury in Wiltshire (which includes the West Kennet Long Barrow), is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the worlds largest. ... Stanton Drew is a small village in North Somerset, England, situated in the Mendip Hills eight miles south of Bristol. ... Stonehenge Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Salisbury. ... Unteruhldingen is a small village on the Lake Constance, Germany. ... Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, situated around 3 miles north of Avebury. ... The West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic tomb, situated on a prominent chalk ridge, near Silbury Hill, one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury in Wiltshire. ...

Bronze Age

Gate to the reconstructed settlement Biskupin is an archaeological site and a life-size model of an Iron Age fortified settlement (gród) in Poland, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship. ... Flag fen near Peterborough, England is a bronze age site, probably religious. ... For the municipality, see Myloi (Argolida), Greece, the seat of the municipality of Lerna In classical Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. ... The Lion Gate at Mycenae The Lion Gate (detail) Mycenae (ancient Greek: , IPA , in modern Greek: Μυκήνες ), is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. ... Nebra is a small city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... Tiryns is a Mycenaean site in the Peloponnesian peninsula in Greece. ... Zug, capital of the Swiss canton of that name, a picturesque little town at the northeastern corner of the lake of Zug, and at the foot of the Zugerberg (3255 ft. ...

Iron Age

Ambresbury Banks is the name given to the remains of an Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest, Essex, England. ... Danebury is a an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire in the United Kingdom, around 12 miles north west of Winchester. ... Maiden Castle from the north Maiden Castle is a hill fort, mostly dating from the Iron Age, situated 2 miles south of Dorchester, in Dorset, England. ... Bibracte was the capital of the Aedui in the Iron Age, one of the most important hillforts in Gaul. ... The Heuneburg is the site of a large early Iron Age (Hallstatt culture) hill fort near Riedlingen, Württemberg, in Germany. ... The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a statue of a nude ithyphallic warrior made of sandstone, the first known iron age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the alps. ... Gate to the reconstructed settlement Biskupin is an archaeological site and a life-size model of an Iron Age fortified settlement (gród) in Poland, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship. ... La Tène is a village near the Neuenburger See, also called Lac du Neuchâtel, a lake in Switzerland. ...

Roman/Greek Period

Chysauster Ancient Village is Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall. ... The Roman painted house is a Roman mansio, a hostel for government officials in Dover (Dubris at the time), which was built in ca AD 200. ... Dover Castle is situated in Kent and has been described as the Key to England due to its defensive significance throughout history. ... Part of the Peutinger Table showing the location of Glanum Glanum was a Roman city in Provence, southern France, on the flanks of the Alpilles range of mountains in todays Bouches-du-Rhone départment. ... Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a commune of southern France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, in the former province of Provence. ... Inchtuthil is the name of a large, well-preserved Roman legionary fortress on the banks of the River Tay near Dunkeld in the Scottish county of Perthshire. ... Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympía or Ολύμπια Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a city of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. ... Ruins in Pompeii The city of Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many smaller places around the Bay of Naples, were Roman municipalities destroyed during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The eruption was described by Pliny the Younger (see below), whose uncle Pliny the Elder died... The Saalburg is a Roman fortification in the Taunus mountains in Germany and was a stronghold in the Upper Germanic Limes. ... Salamis Island is the name of an island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, near Athens, Greece, where the Battle of Salamis was fought in 480 B.C.. Salamis, Cyprus is an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus. ... Sparta (Grk. ... Images of Trajan monument of victory Daco-Roman Wars I AD Categories: Romanian history | Nerva-Antonine Dynasty | Roman military history | Roman awards and decorations ...

Early Medieval

Adelsö is an island in the middle of the lake Mälaren in Sweden near southern and northern Björkfjärden. ... Townsite of Birka Archaeological excavation at Birka Birka  listen , also Birca and Bierkø (today named Björkö, literally Birch Island), was an important trading center in the Baltic Sea region from the 8th century, which handled goods from Eastern Europe and the Orient, possibly as far as China, thus covering... Gamla Uppsala is an area rich in archaeological remains seen from the grave field whose larger mounds (left part) are close to the royal mounds. ... Helgö is an island in lake Mälaren, Sweden. ... South Cadbury in Somerset is a hilltop archaeological site covering an area of around 8ha, 12km northeast of Yeovil and near the historical hillfort Cadbury Castle. ... Sutton Hoo parade helmet (British Museum, restored). ... Valsgärde is a farm at the Fyris river, ca 3 km north of Gamla Uppsala, the ancient centre of the Swedish kings and of the pagan faith in Sweden. ... Ohtheres mound Vendel is a parish in the Swedish province of Uppland. ...

Medieval

Asia

Palaeolithic

Berekhat Ram, also spelled Berekhet Ram, Berechat Ram Braikhat Ram, Bircat Ram, the Ram Pool or Lake Ram is a Palaeolithic site near Masadah, at the foot of Mount Hermon, High Golan, in North Israel. ... Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site - the Caves (taken in July 2004) Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien is a cave system near Beijing, China. ...

Mesolithic

Tell Abu Hureyra (tell is arabic for mound) was a site of an ancient settlement in the northern Levant or western Mesopotamia. ...

Neolithic

The final Pre-pottery Neolithic B site of Atlit Yam in Israel dates between 6900 and 6300 BC cal. ... Excavations at the South Area of Çatal Höyük Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without accent marks -- Çatal is Turkish for fork and Höyük is Turkish for mound) was a very large Neolithic and... Göbekli Tepe is an early Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey. ... Jericho (Arabic أريحا; ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ; Standard Hebrew Yəriḥo; Tiberian Hebrew Yərîḫô, Yərîḥô) is a town in the West Bank, near the west bank of the Jordan River. ... Nevali Cori is an early Neolithic settlement in the upper Euphrates valley, eastern Turkey, around 490 m high. ... Mehrgarh was an ancient settlement in South Asia and is one of the most important sites in archaeology for the study of the earliest neolithic settlements in that region. ...

Bronze Age

Knossos Knossos (35°18′ N 25°10′ E; alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Gnossus, Greek Κνωσσός) is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy (Turkey) This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. ... Entrance to the Palace of Ugarit Ugarit (modern site Ras Shamra رأس شمرة; in Arabic) 35°35´ N; 35°45´E) was an ancient cosmopolitan port city, sited on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria a few kilometers north of the modern city of Latakia. ... The Uluburun Shipwreck is a well-documented ancient shipwreck of the Late Bronze Age period, discovered off the coastline near the city of Kaş, Turkey in the early 1980s. ...

Iron Age

The Lion Gate in the south-west Hattusa (also known as Hattusas or Hattush) was the capital of the Hittite Empire. ... This article is about the ancient Middle Eastern city of Nineveh. ... Taite was one of the Capitals of the Mitanni Empire. ...

Greek and Roman Period

Map of the Aegean Sea, showing the location of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Asia Minor, on a picturesque and advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf or Gulf of Cos. ... Knidos or Cnidus (modern-day Tekir in Turkey) is an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, once part of the country of Caria. ... In Greek mythology, Miletus was the founder of the city described below. ... Church of St. ... Salamis is an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km North of GazimaguÅŸa. ...

Early Medieval

Medieval

Africa

Palaeolithic

Hadar is a site on the River Awash in Ethiopia, in the Afar Triangle. ... Categories: Stub | Archaeology | Waterfalls | Zambia | Geography of Tanzania ... The Lower Paleolithic site of Laetoli in Tanzania is famous for its human footprints, preserved in volcanic ash (Site G). ... Olduvai Gorge from space Topography of Olduvai Gorge The Olduvai Gorge is a 30 mile long, steep-sided ravine, part of the Great Rift Valley which stretches along eastern Africa. ... Oldowan is an anthropological designation for an industry of stone tools used by prehistoric hominids in the very early Paleolithic. ... Surf is the name of a laundry detergent, most commonly known by said name in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. ...

Iron Age

The large walled construction is the Great Enclosure. ... A map of the central Mediterranean Sea, showing the location of Carthage (near modern Tunis). ... Cyrene, the ancient Greek city (in present-day Libya) was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region and gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times. ...

Greek and Roman Period

Volubilis, The Capitol Volubilis is a archaeological site in Morocco situated near Meknes and between Fez and Rabat. ...

Americas

Neolithic

West walls of the ruins The Aztec Ruins National Monument is a U.S. National Monument, centered around ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico, United States, located close to the town of Aztec. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... Houses at Bandelier Bandelier National Monument The Bandelier National Monument is a U.S. National Monument consisting of 32,737 acres (132. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park and World Heritage Site which contains the densest and most exceptional concentration of large pueblos in the American Southwest. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in southwestern New Mexico was established as a national monument November 16, 1907. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... Meadowcroft Rock Shelter is an archaeological site located near Avella in Washington County, in southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. ... State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell (D) Official languages None Area 119,283 km² (33rd)  - Land 116,074 km²  - Water 3,208 km² (2. ... Pecos National Historical Park is a National Historical Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... Petroglyph National Monument stretches 17 miles (27 km) along Albuquerques West Mesa, a volcanic basalt escarpment that dominates the city’s western horizon. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... Snaketown is the name of a former Native American settlement in Arizonas lower Gila River valley in the United States of America. ... State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Other U.S. States Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano (D) Official languages English Only State Area 295,254 km² (6th)  - Land 294,312 km²  - Water 942 km² (0. ... This article is about the Native American city. ... State nickname: Land of Lincoln, The Prairie State Other U.S. States Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) Official languages English Area 149,998 km² (25th)  - Land 143,968 km²  - Water 6,030 km² (4. ... In the 1930s, this shelter was built to protect what remains of the Casa Grande ruins. ... State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Other U.S. States Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano (D) Official languages English Only State Area 295,254 km² (6th)  - Land 294,312 km²  - Water 942 km² (0. ... Temple of the Warriors Chichen Itza is the largest of the Pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Yucat n, Mexico. ... Monte Verde is an archaeological site in south-central Chile, which is suspected to date back about 14,000 years, making it one of the earliest inhabited sites in the Americas. ... Easter Island and its location Orthographic projection centred over Easter Island Easter Island (Polynesian: Rapa Nui (Great Rapa) or Te Pito te Henua (Navel and Uterus), Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. ... View of Machu Picchu Machu Picchu (Quechua: Old Mountain; sometimes called the Lost City of the Incas) is a well-preserved pre-Columbian Inca ruin located on a high mountain ridge, at an elevation of about 2,350 m. ...

Australia and Oceania

Palaeolithic

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