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Sicily in the Early Bronze Age
A map of Sicily in the early Bronze Age (2169 ±120 BCE - c.1500 BCE) divided into 4 cultural macro-regions: northern Sicily with the Rodì-Tindari-Vallelunga culture, western with the Naro/Partanna culture, the south-east with the Castelluccio...
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Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama (c. 1469-1524) was a Portuguese navigator who, in 1497-9, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa and arrived at Calicut (now Kozhikode) on the south-west coast of India. This was the first direct voyage from...
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Ice Age Drawing of a Bison
Ice Age drawing of a bison, on limestone, about 13,000-14,000 years old. Found in Montastruc, France. Over, 100,000 years ago the first fully modern humans in southern Africa began to create works of art. These people then migrated to...
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Bronze Age Mediterranean Invasions & Migrations
A map of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean indicating the various invasions and migrations of the period.
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Stone Age Tools (Modern Recreations)
A collection of modern recreations of Stone Age tools. The picture above shows (from top right to bottom left): A hatchet with a wing spar, used for felling trees A straight hatchet for shortening smaller pieces of wood (with...
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Stone Age Tools Made From Antlers
Modern recreations of Stone Age tools: knives, arrows, hatchets, axes, and daggers, made of deer antlers.
Pile-Dwelling Museum in Unteruhldingen at Lake Constance, Germany.
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Stela of Hernán Pérez VI from Bronze Age Iberia
This granite stela dates from the Early or Middle Bronze Age. It was discovered in Cáceres, Spain. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)
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Warrior Stela from Bronze Age Iberia
This stela is from Solana de Cabañas (Cabañas del Castillo, Cáceres), Spain and dates from the Late Bronze Age. It is made of slate, and it was unearthed in the late 19th century CE. This was the first specimen to be discovered in a series...
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Table 1 - Chronology of the Greek Dark Age
Simplified chronology of the Greek Dark Age
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Bronze Age Greek chariot (From the Novel "The Jericho River")
An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing a Bronze Age Greek chariot.
From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.
