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Zinjirli A tell site in southeast Turkey excavated by the Germans in the late 19th century. It was important during the 2nd millennium bc under the Hittites and subsequently as an independent city state called Sam’al. It was annexed by the Assyrians in the 7th century BC and then abandoned. The town was s...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Zenebi Falls A site on the Gaya River, north of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, where outwash gravels contain a prepared core industry of ‘Middle Stone Age’ type. A radiocarbon date in the 4th millennium be for wood from the same deposit is probably not an accurate indicator of the age of the stone industry.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Yanik Tepe A tell site near Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan in northwest Iran. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dated to the mid-6th millennium be. Nine phases of occupation of this early period were recognized, characterized by rectangular mud-brick houses with plaster...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Yahya Tell site in the province of Kerman in southeast Iran. It was occupied from the 5th millennium bc to the 3rd, with some later occupation up to the Sassanian period. In the late 4th and early 3rd millennium bc it was an important trading centre. The main commodity traded was locally quarried steat...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Wun Rok A large Iron Age settlement mound north of Wau in the Bahr el Ghazal Province, in the Southern Region of the Sudan. Throughout the occupation, which began around the middle of the 1st millennium ad, pottery was decorated by means of a twisted cord roulette. A similar technique of pottery decorati...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Willendorf Loess site near Krems in lower Austria with nine Palaeolithic levels. The upper five are of Willendorfian or east Grav-ettian type including the famous venus statuette (see venus figurines), while the lower levels were closer to the Aurignacian.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Viru Valley In 1946 a multi-disciplinary team, headed by Gordon R. Willey, embarked upon a comprehensive project of survey and excavation in this Peruvian north-coast valley. Isolated archaeological work had been carried out in the valley before, but this was the first settlements pattern study conducted in ...Added by archaeologs | English|Others, Place Names

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Veruiamium Present-day St. Albans, Hertfordshire, southeast England. Normally reckoned to be the third largest Roman town in Britain and situated astride Watling Street, which it spanned with monumental gateways. Starting as a small fort near Verlamio, the capital of Tasciovanus, King of the Castuvellauni, ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Architectural

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Ventana Cave A deeply stratified site in southwestern Arizona, USA, excavated by Emil Haury. Occupation spans 10,000 to 11,000 years. Materials from the lowest levels, which included Ctovis/FoLSOM-like projectile points imply generalized hunting activity. The presence of a single mano, however, suggests some ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Venosa An open Lower Palaeolithic site north of Potenza in Basilicata in southern Italy. A hand axe or Acheulian level overlies one with abundant ‘side scrapers’ (evolved Clac-tonian, Tayacian or Charentian). The date of these is not well fixed.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Vaito’Otia An important Early Eastern Polynesian settlement on Huahine, Society Islands, which has produced rich organic and non-organic remains of the period c850-l 100. The material culture has close parallels with that of the first Maori settlers of New Zealand. See also Hane, Maupiti, Wairau Bar.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Dendra Orta Helladik döneme ait bir tümülüsü içerisinde barındıran (İ.Ö. 15-14. yy.) ve zengin oda mezarları bulunan Yunanistan'da bir Bronz Çağı mezarlığı.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Place Names

Utnur Neolithic site in the central Deccan, India, occupied in the 3rd millennium bc. Four major phases of occupation were recognized. The people who occupied the site were primarily cattle-herders, probably living in huts built of branches and brush. Remains of stockades for penning the beasts were fo...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Usf-Belaia A site on the upper Angara River in the Baikal region of southern Siberia, occupied from early in the postglacial period (labelled Mesolithic) into the Neolithic (defined by the appearance of pottery, not farming). The site represents a base camp for a hunting group, occupied over a long period. ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Usatovo Culture The type site for a regional group derived from the Late Tripolye culture (Tripolye C2), distributed in the Odessa region of the south Russian steppe zone. Dated to the mid-3rd millennium bc, the barrow cemetery at Usatovo was one of the richest in the steppe zone and lay next to a stone-built se...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Architectural

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Urewe Ware The characteristic Early Iron Age pottery type of the interlacustrine region of East Africa. There are good reasons, both typological and chronometric, for regarding Urewe ware as ancestral to the varied wares of the Early Iron Age complex further south. Named after a site in southwestern Kenya, ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery, Place Names

Ulan Khada A site on the shores of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. The lowest level is assigned to a ‘Preccramic Neolithic’ phase, while later levels have pottery and arc labelled Neolithic. All levels arc associated with a hunting and gathering life-style.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Adena A widespread Native American culture of the Early Woodland period in the Ohio Valley and named after the Adena Mounds of Ross County. It is known for its ceremonial and complex burial practices involving the construction of mounds and by a high level of craftwork and pottery. It is dated from as ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Syracuse A Greek colonial settlement and principal port on the east coast of Sicily, and later capital of Roman Sicily. Earliest occupation seems to be on the island of Ortygia which helps to enclose the Great Harbour, where some early Palaeolithic material occurs. It is likely that a native settlement pr...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Swanscombe A site on the lower Thames in Kent, southern England, of major importance on account of the series of river deposits of the 30-metre terrace exposed in Barnfield Pit and elsewhere. These deposits contain useful environmental evidence, including abundant mollusc and mammal remains and large assemb...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Spiro A major ceremonial centre of the Caddoan subculture of the Mississippian tradition, the climax of which was cl 3501400. Because of its abundance of paraphernalia of the Southern Cult, it is often linked to the centres at Etowah and Moundville, even though it is culturally distinct from them. The ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

South Cadbury This site in Somerset, southwest England, is one of the more important secular Dark Age sites in Britain. It is essentially an Iron Age hill fort with a complex history of abandonment and refortification continuing throughout the prehistoric, Roman and medieval periods. The 16th-century antiquari...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Sounion [Roman Sunium]. Byron’s ‘Sunium’s marbled steep’ is a classical sanctuary site on a rocky headland some 70 km southeast of Athens. It is famous for the standing columns of its mid-5th century bc marble temple to Poseidon, which make a dramatic sight and give the location its alternative title of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Snaketown An important Hohokam site in the lower Gila River valley, Arizona, USA, excavated by Emil Haury in 1964-5. A strong Mesoamerican influence is apparent throughout its occupation and architectural features include both the platform mound and the ball court. The site, occupied from the beginning of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Smolensk Excavations at Smolensk in the western USSR have begun to increase our knowledge of early medieval Russia. Stone and timber houses and five churches of the Pre-Mongol period have been discovered; colourful frescoes imitating Byzantine silks were found attached to the lower parts of the church walls.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq at an altitude of 745 metres. A small village site outside, Zawi Chemi Shanidar, has produced some evidence for early farming at the time of the Zarzian, whose levels at the summit of the cave are about 10,000 be. Beneath early Upper Palaeolithic levels are Mousterian layers...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Samate Settlement site of the Late Mesolithic Narva culture, located in the southeast Baltic province of Latvia, USSR. The single culture level has radiocarbon dates of 2950-2550 be and contains a rich collection of Narva pointed-base pottery and bone implements.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Sakçe Gözü Tell site in southeast Turkey, occupied in the Neolithic period, with a sequence of wares relating the Amuq and Halaf pottery styles. In the early 1st millennium bc the site was reoccupied and a Syro-Hittite palace erected on the northwest corner of the citadel, decorated with reliefs and inscrip...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Sabz Tell site in Khuzistan, southwest Iran, which has given its name to a phase in the prehistoric sequence. It succeeds the Muhammad Jafar phase (see Ali Kosh), though probably only after a gap; it has radiocarbon dates in the range 5500-5250 be. It is characterized by the appearance of painted pott...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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Sabatinovka [Sabatinivka]. In this village near Uljanov in the western Ukraine, USSR, there are several Tripolye sites, the most important being Sabatinovka II (an early Tripolye site of the early 4th millennium be) and Sabatinovka I (a late Tripolye site yielding a knot-headed copper pin comparable to early...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Qishan [Ch’i-shan], A district in Shaanxi province, China, just west of Fufeng. The Zhou people are said to have settled at Qishan several generations before they overthrew the Shang dynasty, and Qishan remained a major centre after the founding of the Zhou dynasty. A large palace complex discovered in ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Qatna An impressive fortified city east of Homs in Syria. Excavation has found evidence of 3rd-millennium bc occupation, but the fortifications — consisting of a free-standing plaster-faced glacis (bank) — belong to the Middle Bronze Age in the early 2nd millennium bc and were probably constructed by t...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Ozette A group of sites located on the western tip of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA. Three to five centuries ago the principal site, a Makah Indian village, was completely engulfed by a mudslide which preserved several plank houses and their contents. The over 60,000 artefacts recovered, ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Oxyrhynchus An ancient Egyptian town some 11 km west of the Nile on the left bank of the Bahr Yusuf, best known for its papyri texts. Oxyrhynchus was a regional capital, and derives its name from the fish (Greek oxyrhynchus: ‘sharp-nosed’) with which the locally worshipped deity of Seth was associated. Littl...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Otzaki Neolithic tell site on the Thessalian plain of northern Greece. Early levels have yielded pottery of Impressed ware type, labelled Pre-Sesklo, but the main occupation belongs to the Middle Neolithic Sesklo culture. This stratum has rectangular mudbrick houses with internal buttresses and abundant...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

Olympia At Elis in the Peloponnese, Southern Greece, was the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus and his consort, Hera, and the regular venue for the original Olympic Games. Perhaps first attracting use as an earth shrine and oracle (see Delphi and Delos), the site shows signs of continuous occupation from early ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names

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