The Mycenaean Civilization The Mycenaean Civilization dominated the Aegean world from about 1400 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E. They are the first Greek-speaking people of whom we have a written record. The Mycenaeans were sea traders. They traded goods as far as Sicily, Italy, Egypt, and Mesopot...
Cornell archaeologists are helping to rewrite the early prehistory of human civilization on Cyprus, with evidence that hunter-gatherers began to form agricultural settlements on the island half a millennium earlier than previously believed. Beginning with pedestrian surveys of promising sites in 2005, stu...
But if this is the work of God, we must then believe that God was willing to set off the equivalent of a very large nuclear weapon in the middle of the Aegaean Sea, killing many thousands of people and all but exterminating the Minoan civilization, simply to apply duress to the King ...
Already in the first edition ofThe Dawn of European CivilizationChilde’s aim was to investigate ‘the foundation of European Civilization as a peculiar and individual manifestation of human spirit’ (Childe 1925: xiii). In the Preface Childe presents two schools of thought: an Orientalist view th...
Sites from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age:1. Arzhan;2. Baga Gazaryn Chuluu;3. Baga Oigur/Tsagaan Salaa;4. Bar Ovoo;5. Chandman’ Khar Uul;6. Chikhan Agui;7. Daram;8. Delgerkhaan Uul;9. Denisova Cave (northwest of map);10. Dorolj;11. Ikh Nartiin Chuluu;12. Jinsitai Cave...
Megalithic tombs have since long been a focus of debate within the archaeological research field, not least regarding their emergence, use life and the various bursts of building activity in different regions and periods. The aim of this study is to investigate the temporal span of the main buri...
More telling than words, trigrams were seen as revelatory abstractions of the structure of the universe, as they were primary images (xiang ^) designed at the beginning of civilization by Fu Xi f??, primeval sage and China's first creator of culture.10 9 This view is summarized and ...
and restricts the development of social economy and civilization1. China is one of the countries most severely affected by geological disasters, with landslides accounting for a significant proportion. Among the main triggers of landslides, rainfall is a highly active and variable natural factor, with...
For Evelyn Gothic represented the antithesis of civilization and was something that was not just aesthetically displeasing but degenerate and potentially harmful ([5], pp. 19–20; [56], pp. 161–62). This by contrast is Hatton on the Abbey, a passage which reveals his keen eye and potent...
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