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34 unusual facts about bronze age


650s BC

650 BC—A climate change affects all the Bronze Age cultures in Europe with colder and wetter climate, and tribes from the Scandinavian Nordic Bronze Age cultures are pushed downwards into the European continent.

Aleksandrovo, Subotica

There are traces of older settlements at this location dating from Bronze Age, time of the Sarmatians and Middle Ages.

Anders Hagen

He researched mainly Norwegian settlement history of the Stone Age and Bronze Age.

Antiquities Law of the State of Israel of 1978

A listing that says that a dealer owns a pot dated to the Bronze Age doesn’t mean very much, since many pots of that era will be in their shop.

Bab edh-Dhra

Bab edh-Dhra (bāb al-dhrā' ) is the site of an Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea, on the south bank of Wadi Kerak.

Bellahøj

The park also contains three or four burial mounds from the Bronze Age.

Bovey Heath

The heath was probably created around 4000 years ago through the actions of Bronze Age farmers who would have cleared areas of woodland for grazing and the cultivation of crops.

Colin Burgess

Colin Burgess (archaeologist) (born 1942), a British archaeologist with a specialization in the Bronze Age

Comerford Crown

The Comerford Crown or Ikerrin Crown is the name of a lost archaeological relic probably dating from the Bronze Age that was in the possession of the noble Comerford Family from its discovery in 1692 in Ireland, later removal from Ireland, and possible loss by that family while living in exile in France during the Reign of Terror (c. 1793).

Fallopia convolvulus

The seeds are edible, and were used in the past as a food crop, with remains found in Bronze Age middens.

Flysta

The history of Flysta goes far back, with several archaeological remains from the early Bronze Age.

Follum

Many other archaeological discoveries were also unearthed dating from earlier and later eras, the Stone Age and the Bronze Age.

Garth and Bev

Garth and Bev is set in the Bronze Age and centres on the adventures of Garth and his little sister Bev.

Górowo, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

The burial grounds of the Bronze Age Lusatian culture from 1000-400 BC were discovered on terrains belonging to the village.

Great Mongeham

Great Mongeham may have been a settlement as long ago as the Bronze Age.

Holwick

Agriculture began in the Neolithic period, and the remains of buildings have been found from the Bronze Age.

Iberian schematic art

Iberian schematic art is the name given to a series of prehistoric representations (almost always cave paintings) that appear in the Iberian peninsula, which are associated with the first metallurgical cultures (the Copper Age, the Bronze Age and even the start of the Iron Age).

Isbisa

Accordingly, he took on an alias, Isbisa, after combining the first letter of the Ice Age, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Steel Age and the Atomic Age.

Karin Sowada

Karin is a researcher in Egyptian archaeology with Macquarie University in Sydney and is a specialist in the foreign relations of Egypt and the Near East during the Bronze Age.

Łęki Małe, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Close to the village are a series of burial mounds (kurgans) dating from the Bronze Age, sometimes referred to as the "Polish pyramids".

Machteld Mellink

Mellink's most well-known work focused on the site of Karatas-Semayük in the Elmali plain in Lycia where she explored Early Bronze Age remains and tombs.

Patriarchal age

The most eminent of early biblical archaeologists was William F. Albright, who believed that he had identified the Patriarchal age in the period 2100–1800 BC, the Intermediate Bronze Age, the interval between two periods of highly developed urban culture in ancient Canaan.

Priam's Treasure

Here he discovered the ruins of a series of ancient cities, dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period.

Ratchaburi

Archeological discoveries show that the area was already settled in the Bronze Age, and the town itself is known to have existed for at least two thousand years.

Reseda minoica

The specific name is given after the Minoan civilisation, which flourished during the Bronze Age in Crete, and whose cultural influences spread to Cyprus, Anatolia and the Levantine coast.

Rodeneck

The discovery of middle Bronze Age forts dates permanent settlement to at least 1500 BC.

Stewart Perowne

In the same year he deposited a collection of potsherds with the British Museum, most of which are of Bronze Age type and probably derive from the ancient site of Subr.

Time Team Digs

Time Team Digs is an eight-part series looking at previous Time Team digs, with each episode focusing on a particular period in history, going from the Bronze Age to the modern day.

Trzcinica, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

the people of the early European Bronze Age culture created a settlement, and where archeologist found, amongst 30,000 objects, artifacts showing influence of the more advanced Carpathian Basin Otomani-Fűzesabony culture - clay wheels of toy or ritual carriages, clay animal figurines.

Vamdrup

Three oak coffins were uncovered from graves in the Bronze Age mound Guldhøj in Holt near Vamdrup in 1891, and are now on display at the National Museum (Nationalmuseet).

Vestby

There are various archeological finds in the area, such as the ones from the Bronze Age.

Waster

Wooden practice swords have been in use since the Late Bronze Age, with an original sword found on Orkney's Mainland in Scotland still in existence at the National Museum of Edinburgh.

Who Watches the Watchers

The Federation starship Enterprise, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, arrives at the planet Mintaka III to resupply and repair a Federation outpost being used to monitor the Mintakan people, a proto-Vulcan race near a Bronze Age of cultural development.

Wildeshausen

The 'kings tombs' (Königshügel) consist of burials from different ages (late Bronze Age to pre-Roman Iron Age).


Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

The new wing hosts two exhibitions: The Gold of Macedon, with artifacts from the cemeteries of Sindos, Agia Paraskevi, Nea Filadelfia, Makrygialos, Derveni, Lete, Serres, and Evropos; and The Thessaloniki Area in Prehistory, with material from prehistoric settlements, dating from the Neolithic to the Early and Late Bronze Age.

Bagsecg

According to local folklore in Berkshire, Bagsecg was buried at Waylands Smithy and his Earls at The Seven Barrows ; this is wrong as Waylands Smithy dates back to Neolithic times and The Seven Barrows dates back to the Bronze Age, If this is the case then the Barrows could have been reused for burial over the course of time.

Balksbury

Balksbury is the site of a former Bronze Age hillfort to the southwest of Andover, Hampshire.

Bridge-spouted vessel

A very early example of a bridge spouted bowl has been recovered at the ancient palace of Phaistos on Crete, dating to the Bronze Age.

Cividade Hill

Cividade de Terroso was an important city of the Castro culture in North-western Iberian Peninsula, established during the Bronze Age, between 800 and 900 BC, as a result of the displacement of the people inhabiting the fertile plain of Póvoa de Varzim.

Eduard Štorch

Eduard Štorch (April 10, 1878, Ostroměř – June 25, 1956, Prague) was a Czech pedagogue, archaeologist and writer, known for novels set in prehistoric Bohemia during Stone and Bronze Age.

Goostrey

Bronze Age barrows have also been found near Twemlow Hall and Terra Nova School on the edge of the parish.

Gørlev

The countryside around Gørlev is as Kalundborg Municipality in general home to a number of interesting prehistoric sites, including Stone Age passage graves and various Bronze Age mounds.

Granátula de Calatrava

Also the Bronze Age site of La Encantada is within Granátula de Calatrava's municipal term.

Horom, Armenia

Located 1 km east of Horom and situated upon two large hills south of the main road and opposite of the dam and reservoir is the ancient Bronze Age through Urartian Citadel of Horom.

Illyrian weaponry

Shields were used among the Illyrians from the end of the Bronze Age, but very little is known about the early shields until the Iron Age.

Khirbet Sharta

Discoveries include burial caves with remains from the Bronze, Iron, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Arabic eras.

Kiryat Ata

Archeological surveys at Khirbet Sharta in the northeast part of the city revealed traces of habitation dating to the Bronze, Iron, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Mamluk eras.

Kynos

Kynos or Cynus (Ancient Greek: Κύνος) is an ancient settlement site with finds of the Bronze and Early Iron Age, which was discovered on the edge of the town of Livanates in Central Greece.

Mark S. Smith

He also began to explore the representation of deities and divinity in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Roman period.

Nahal Poleg

The original opening in the kurkar ridge was made in the Bronze Age, and reopened during the Roman period.

Natalia Polosmak

Many ancient Bronze Age tomb mounds have been found in the area and have been associated with the Pazyryk culture, a culture that closely resembled that of the legendary Scythian people to the west.

National Museum of Iran

The three halls contain artifacts from the lower, middle, and upper Paleolithic, as well as the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, early and late Bronze Age, and Iron Ages I-III, through the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid periods.

Nicholas Mahudel

He proposed the chronological prehistoric sequence stone age - Bronze Age - Iron Age.

Peter Throckmorton

The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck (circa 1200 BC) was discovered by Throckmorton in 1959 using information provided him by Kemal Aras, a sponge diver from Bodrum, Turkey who had first seen parts of the vessel's cargo of bronze ingots in 1954, but who had failed to recognize that it was actually a bronze age shipwreck and thus its archaeological importance.

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Many prehistoric artefacts from Dartmoor, important Bronze Age and Iron Age material from Mount Batten and medieval and post-medieval finds from Plymouth are found in the human history collection alongside artifacts from Ancient Egypt and other ancient cultures of Europe and the Middle East.

Santa Bárbara Castle

Bronze Age, Iberian, and Roman artifacts have been found on the slopes of the mountain, but the origins of the castle date to the 9th century at the time of Muslim control of the Iberian Peninsula.

Stephen D. Houston

From 1978–79 he spent a year as an exchange student at Edinburgh University, Scotland, where he participated in his first field trips, excavating Mesolithic and Neolithic bog sites in Offaly and Mayo counties, Ireland, and at a Bronze Age henge near Strathallan, Scotland.

Ulug Depe

Ulug Depe is an ancient Bronze Age site in the foothills of the Kopet Dag Mountains in the Karakum Desert of Kaka District (Kaahka) in the Ahal Province of south-eastern Turkmenistan.

Zsujta

A large bronze age hoard of weapons was discovered in the village in the late 19th century and can be found at the British Museum, London.