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1925 in archaeology

The Aurignacian settlement site at Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt is discovered by local schoolteacher E. Thiersch.

2004 in archaeology

Albert Goodyear of the University of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology announces that radiocarbon dating at the Topper Site dated to approximately 50,000 years ago, or approximately 37,000 years before the Clovis culture.

Albert Goodyear

The Allendale, South Carolina site, known as the Topper site, which has had ongoing excavations for several years, has unearthed many artifacts, as it was a long lasting site of human occupation due to an outcrop of chert, which was valuable for making stone tools.

Archaeological Museum of Olynthos

The Archaeological Museum of Olynthos opened in July 1998 in a building on the archaeological site of ancient Olynthos, 5 km from Moudania, Halkidiki in Central Macedonia, Greece.

Ariyankuppam

Arikamedu is an archaeological site located at a distance of 1 km from Ariyankuppam, where Mortimer Wheeler conducted his best-known excavation in the 1940s.

Arras culture

Other sites of similar La Tene period burials within the Arras culture, often with chariot burials include: Cawthorn Camps, Pexton Moor, Seamer, Hunmanby, Burton Fleming, Danes Graves, Garton, Wetwang, Middleton on the Wolds, Beverley and Hornsea.

Axlor

Axlor is a prehistoric archeological site in the village of Dima in Biscay in the Autonomous Basque Community of Spain, dating from the Middle Paleolithic or Mousterian period.

Backusburg, Kentucky

Two different archaeological sites are located near the community; one of them, known as the Backusburg Mounds, is one of the premier sites throughout the Jackson Purchase.

Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure

Named for its location near the stream known as Cowan Creek, the enclosure is an important archaeological site, and it is protected as part of a state park.

Cybele

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, supposedly the "best man" in Rome, was chosen to meet the goddess at Ostia; and Rome's most virtuous matrons (including Claudia Quinta) conducted her to the temple of Victoria, to await the completion of her temple on the Palatine Hill.

Hoye Site

Hoye Site or Hoye Prehistoric Indian Village site, is an archaeological site near Oakland in Garrett County, Maryland.

Jade use in Mesoamerica

Von Humboldt sought to determine whether or not Neolithic jadeite celts excavated from European Megalithic archaeological sites like Stonehenge and Carnac shared sources with the similar looking jade celts from Mesoamerica (they do not).

Jwalapuram

Jwalapuram is an archaeological site in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, South India, which shows hominid habitation before and after the Toba event.

Kakkayanthope

Arikamedu is an archaeological site located at a distance of 1 km from Ariyankuppam, where Mortimer Wheeler conducted his best-known excavation in the 1940s.

Lyons Demesne

Treasures which were successfully imported include three columns from the ruins of the Golden House of Nero in Rome, used in the portico, and a statue of Venus excavated at Ostia.

Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site

The Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site is an archaeological site near Pasadena in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Meadowcroft Rockshelter

Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Washington County, in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States.

Megalobulimus

Shells of terrestrial snails, mainly of the genus Megalobulimus, are found in fluvial shellmound (called sambaqui in Brazil) on the Capelinha archaeological site from paleoamerican culture of early Holocene.

Mihovo

Archaeological finds at a site close to the village have shown continuous occupation of the area with artefacts from the neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman period, and early Medieval period.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County, Michigan

These listings include a lighthouse, statue, four houses, trading post, former factory, battlefield (Battle of Frenchtown), and six historic districts — one of which is an undeveloped archeological district.

San Jose de Moro

San José de Moro is a Moche archaeological site in the Pacanga District, Chepén Province, La Libertad Region, of Northwestern Peru.

Sandy Point Site

The Sandy Point Site, or Sandy Point Archeological Site, is an archaeological site near Ocean City in Worcester County, Maryland.

Settlement of the Americas

At the Topper archaeological site (located along the banks of the Savannah River near Allendale, South Carolina) investigated by University of South Carolina archaeologist Dr. Albert Goodyear, charcoal material recovered in association with purported human artifacts returned radiocarbon dates of up to 50,000 years before the present (BP).

In 2004, Albert Goodyear of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology announced radiocarbon dating of a bit of charcoal found in the Topper Site that preceded Clovis culture, near Allendale County, South Carolina.

Thai ceramics

The earliest trace of Thai ceramics ever recorded is the Ban Chiang, said to date back to about 3600 B.C.E. and found in what is the present day Udon Thani Province, Thailand.

Tierras Largas

Tierras Largas is a formative-period archaeological site located in the Etla arm in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico.

Timeline of archaeology, 2000s

Albert Goodyear of the University of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology announces that radiocarbon dating at the Topper Site dated to approximately 50,000 years ago, or approximately 37,000 years before the Clovis culture

Toniná

Tonina (or Toniná in Spanish orthography) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site and ruined city of the Maya civilization located in what is now the Mexican state of Chiapas, some 13 km (8.1 mi) east of the town of Ocosingo.

Yuchi Town Site

Yuchi Town Site, or Yuchi Town, is a late prehistoric and historic era archaeological site showing occupation of both the Apalachicola and of Yuchi tribes.


see also

Agroha

Agroha Mound, an archaeological site located in Hisar district of Haryana, India

American Stonehenge

Tiwanaku, a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia.

Ard Saouda

Ard Saouda or Ard es Saoude (Terres Noires) is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture that is located in the Wadi al-Taym, between Rashaya and Marjayoun in Lebanon.

Banwari Trace

Banwari Trace, an Archaic (pre-ceramic) site in southwestern Trinidad, is presumably the oldest archaeological site in the Caribbean.

Bardy

Bardy-Świelubie (8th and 9th century), a Slavic-Scandinavian archaeological site in Pomerania

Big Eddy

Big Eddy Site, an archaeological site in Cedar County, Missouri

Brahmagiri

Brahmagiri archaeological site, an archaeological site in the state of Karnataka, India

Cerro Sechín

Cerro Sechín (also Sechín de las Estelas) is an archaeological site in Casma Province of Ancash Region in northern Peru.

Chavin

Chavín de Huantar, an archaeological site built by the Chavín culture

Dedic Site

The DEDIC or DEDIC/Sugarloaf Site is a paleo-Indian Clovis-era archaeological site in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Dog hole

Dog Hole Cave, a cave and archaeological site in Cumbria, England

Đerdap national park

The national park is dotted with many natural and cultural values which are included in a special protection programme: Lepenski Vir (the 8,000 year old archaeological site with exceptionally important traces of settlements and the life of the Neolithic man), the Golubac fortress, the Roman fortress Diana in Kladovo, remnants of the road, tables and bridge built during the time of the Roman Emperor Trajan, forest reserves and natural monuments.

Ekdahl–Goudreau Site

The Ekdahl–Goudreau Site is an archaeological site located just west of Seul Choix Point in Schoolcraft County, Michigan.

Emmet Gowin

He traveled there over the next three years and took a series of photographs of the archaeological site at Petra.

Ganj Darreh

Ganj Dareh, an archaeological site in Kermanshah Province, Iran

Gran Saposoa

In September 2005, Gene’s son Sean Savoy released a statement to the Associated Press indicating that upon a recent return to the archaeological site at Gran Saposoa, the team found the site had been looted.

Jackson County, Alabama

Russell Cave is an important archaeological site that was excavated in 1956 by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society.

Jacques Triger

He was also a paleontologist, part of the first team to excavate the archaeological site of Roc-en Paille (Chalonnes-sur-Loire, Maine-et-Loire).

Jiaohe

Jiaohe Ruins (交河故城), archaeological site near Turpan, Xinjiang

Kaljaja

Kaljaja (Teneš Do) is an archaeological site, which is located in Teneš Do on the hill Kaljaja (Pristina municipality).

Kibyra

Kibyra (sometimes also spelled as Cibyra) is an ancient city and an archaeological site in south-west Turkey, near the modern town of Gölhisar, in Burdur Province.

King Cuo of Zhongshan

The Tomb of King Cuo of Zhongshan is an archaeological site located in Sanji, Pingshan, Hebei, China.

Mark Raymond Harrington

He directed a project to salvage as much as possible of the Pueblo Grande de Nevada archaeological site, also known as Nevada's "Lost City," near Overton, Nevada.

Martel, Lot

There is a museum containing items from Puy d'Issolud, a local Gallic archaeological site which has been identified as Uxellodunum, besieged by Julius Caesar in 51 BC.

Maryland Route 261

West of the harbor, MD 261 passes the Old Colony Cove Site, an archaeological site, and heads west away from Herring Bay along Friendship Road.

Medvednjak

Medvednjak is an archaeological site in central-northern Serbia, in Šumadija region, 3 kilometers from center of Smederevska Palanka.

Metro Cerro de la Estrella

The station is named for the Cerro de la Estrella – a mesoamerican archaeological site located nearby.

Monte Alto

Monte Alto culture, a Mesoamerican archaeological site and its associated pre-Columbian culture, located on the Pacific coastal plains of modern Guatemala

Muaro Jambi

Muaro Jambi Temple Compounds, an archaeological site consisting of several Buddhist temples

Painted Rocks

Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, archaeological site and BLM facility listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, located in Arizona and formerly part of Painted Rock State Park

Point Barrow

The headland is an important archaeological site, yielding burials and artifacts associated with the Thule culture, including uluit and bola.

Punuk Islands

The Okvik site, a significant Punuk culture archaeological site, was discovered on the Punuk Islands by Otto W. Geist in 1931.

Qunchamarka

Qunchamarka (Quechua, hispanicized spelling Conchamarca, Conchamarka, Qonchamarca, regionally also spelled 'Qonchamarka') is an archaeological site in Peru located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District, southwest of the mountain Runkuraqay.

Rod-and-ring symbol

At the 6th century B.C.E. archaeological site of Cancho Roano, located near Zalamea de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain, a large feature in the shape of the rod and ring symbol was modeled into the floor of the innermost chamber of a Tartessian temple.

Runkuraqay

is an archaeological site on a mountain of the same name in Peru located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District.

Sacul

Sacul, El Petén, a Classic Period Maya archaeological site near Dolores in Guatemala.

Samrong Sen

The Samrong Sen village, where the archaeological site is situated, is in the Kampong Leaeng District in the lacustrine flood plains, an area which is subject to backwater flooding from the Tonlé Sap lake and the Mekong River flows during the months of June to September (rainy season).

Şanţul Mare

The archaeological site Pecica - Şanţul Mare was the winner of a $ 250,000 grant obtained from the National Science Foundation (USA), following a project by Arad Museum Complex in partnership with Museum of Banat and University of Michigan (USA).

Selinous

Selinunte, an ancient Greek archaeological site on the south coast of Sicily

Socks in sandals

Probably the first evidence of wearing socks in sandals is documented at the archaeological site between Dishforth and Leeming in North Yorkshire, England.

Soumpi

Lac Soumpi is a lake of note here, as is the archaeological site of Tissalaten.

Sumuru

Sumuru, the ancient Akkadian name for Tell Kazel, a Bronze Age archaeological site and Phoenician city of Zemar

Tipu

Tipu, Belize, a Mayan archaeological site near the Belize–Guatemala border

Tondidarou

Tondidarou is a small town and megalithic archaeological site in the Niafunké Cercle, Timbuktu Region, Mali, northwest of Niafunké, about 150 kilometres south-west of Timbuktu.

Wanuku Pampa

Wanuku Pampa or Wanuku Marka (hispanicized spellings and names Huánuco Pampa, Huánuco Viejo, Huánuco Marca) is an archaeological site in Peru in the Huánuco Region, Dos de Mayo Province, La Unión District.

Warren Hill

Warren Hill, Christchurch, Dorset (21 m), important archaeological site and nature reserve on Hengistbury Head, Christchurch.

Willkaraqay

also Wilkaracay, Willkarakay) is an archaeological site in Peru located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Ollantaytambo District.

Žitorađa

The archaeological site of the Byzantine town is known as Žitoradsko kale, located on the Pasjača mountain, while a "Latin church" dating to the period is located in Glašince.