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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period
in a civilization's
development when the most
advanced metalworking
consisted of techniques for
smelting copper and tin from
naturally occurring
outcroppings of ore, and
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Iron Age
In archaeology, the Iron Age
is the stage in the
development of any people
where the use of iron
implements as tools and
weapons is prominent. The
adoption of this new
material coincided with
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Excavation
Excavation is the best-known
and most commonly used
technique within the science
of archaeology. Individual
excavations are normally
referred to simply as "digs"
by those who participate,
this being an over-literal
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Stone tool
A stone tool is, in the most
general sense, any tool made
of stone. Although
stone-tool-dependent
cultures exist even today,
most stone tools are
associated with prehistoric
societies that no longer
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Archaeological field survey
Archaeological field survey is the methodological process by which archaeologists (often landscape archaeologists) collect information about the location, distribution and organisation of past human ... > more -
Minoan civilization
The Minoans were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing from approximately 2600 to 1450 BC when their culture was superseded by the Mycenaean culture, which ... > more -
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization, located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, present-day Mexico. From roughly 600 CE in ... > more -
Amarna letters
The designation Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna correspondence") denotes an archive of correspondence, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and ... > more -
Egyptian pyramids
The pyramids of Egypt, some of which are among the largest man-made constructions ever conceived, constitute one of the most potent and enduring symbols of Ancient Egyptian civilization. It is ... > more -
Civilization
The word civilization (or civilisation) has a variety of meanings related to human society. By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Technically, anthropologists ... > more
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