Archaeological cultures

Abashevo culture is a later bronze age (ca. 17th–16th centuries BC) archaeological culture found in the valleys of the Volga and Kama River north of the Samara bend and into the southern Ural Mountains. It receives its name from a village of Abashevo in Chuvashia. Artifacts are kurgans and remnants of settlements. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abashevo culture"

Abbevillian is a currently obsolescent name for a tool tradition that is increasingly coming to be called Olduwan. The original artifacts were collected from road construction sites on the Somme river near Abbeville by a French customs officer, Boucher de Perthes. He published his findings in 1836. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abbevillian"

Acheulean (also spelt Acheulian, pronounced ACH-OOL-IAN or ACH-OO-LAY-AN) is the name of an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture mainly associated with prehistoric hominines during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and south western Asia and Europe. More than one million years ago, it was Acheulean tool users who left Africa to first successfully colonise Eurasia and their distinctive oval and pear-shaped handaxes have been found over a wide area. Although it developed in Africa, the industry is named after the type site of Saint Acheul, now a suburb of Amiens in northern France where some of the first examples were identified in the nineteenth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acheulean"

(Acheulian/temp) Acheulean (also spelt Acheulian) is the name of an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture mainly associated with prehistoric hominines during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Europe, western Asia and Africa. It was named after the type site of Saint Acheul, now a suburb of Amiens in northern France as L'Epoque de St Acheul by Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet in 1872. It was renamed as the Acheulean in 1925 and its distinctive oval and pear-shaped handaxes have been found over a wide area, showing considerable regional variation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acheulian/temp"

The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from c. 1000 BCE to 100 BCE, in a time known as the Woodland Period. The Adena culture probably refers to a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adena culture"

Afanasevo culture, 3500—2500 BC, an archaeological culture of the late copper and early bronze age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afanasevo culture"

The Ahrensburg culture (ca 9000 BC– ca 8400 BC was a late Upper Paleolithic culture during the Younger Dryas, the last spell of cold at the end of the Wiechsel glaciation. The culture is named after village of Ahrensburg, 25 km northwest of Hamburg in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein where wooded arrow shafts and clubs have been excavated. There archaeologists have found three important settlements: ...more on Wikipedia about "Ahrensburg culture"

The Aleutian Tradition began around 2500 BC and ended in AD 1800. Aleutian artifacts are made out of chpped stone, unlike the more common slate tools. The tradition is core and flake tradition using bifacially carved projectile points. The Aleutian people lived in semi-subterranean winter houses made from driftwood, whale bone, and peat. They used kayaks and atlatls and darts to kill sea mammmals for sustenence. In AD 1150 Aleutian houses increased considerably in size. Food was stored in special chambers inside the house and weaponry was becoming more common around these sites. The sustence pattern changed to from rely on sea mammals to eating moslty salmon. Long distance trade also started increasing community with other local groups. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aleutian tradition"

Ancient Pueblo People, or Ancestral Puebloans is a preferred term for the cultural group of people often known as Anasazi who are the ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples. The ancestral Puebloans were a prehistoric Native American civilization centered around the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States. Archaeologists still debate when a distinct culture emerged, but the current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around 1200 B.C., the Basketmaker II Era. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient Pueblo Peoples"

The Andronovo culture is a cover term for a group of Bronze Age cultures of southern Siberia and Central Asia, ca. 2300–1000 BCE. It is probably better termed an archaeological complex or archaeological horizon. The name derives from the village of Andronovo ( ), where in 1914, several graves were discovered, with skeletons in crouched positions, buried with richly decorated pottery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andronovo culture"

In archaeology, culture refers to either of two separate but allied concepts: ...more on Wikipedia about "Archaeological culture"

The Arras culture is a name given by archaeologists to an Iron Age culture from what is today eastern Yorkshire. It is named after the cemetery site of Arras near Market Weighton in East Yorkshire which was discovered in the nineteenth century. It entered the historical record during the Roman occupation as the Parisii tribe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arras Culture"

Asbestos-Ceramic (ca 3900-1800 BP) refers to types of pottery manufactured with asbestos and clay with adiabatic behaviour in Finland, Karelia and Northern-Scandinavia. A further vessel-type does not contain any asbestos, but it has insulating properties and is therefore sometimes included under asbestos-ceramic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asbestos-Ceramic"

The Aterian industry is a name given by archaeologists to a type of stone tool manufacturing dating to the middle Palaeolithic in the region around the Atlas Mountains and the north west Sahara. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aterian" Please visit again www.shortopedia.com Archaeological_cultures

Aurignacian is the name of a culture of the Upper Palaeolithic present in Europe and south west Asia. It dates to between 34,000 and 23,000 BP. The name originates from the type site of Aurignac in the Haute Garonne area of France ...more on Wikipedia about "Aurignacian"

The Azilian is a name given by archaeologists to an industry of the terminal Palaeolithic and early Mesolithic in northern Spain and southern France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Azilian"

The Baalburge group is a variant of the Funnelbeaker culture, ca. 3800—3500 BC, of the upper Elbe River catchment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baalburge group"

The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (or BMAC, also known as the Oxus civilization) the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age culture of Central Asia, dated to ca. 2200–1700 BC, located in present day Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, centered on the upper Amu Darya (Oxus). Its sites were discovered and named by Victor Sarianidi (1976). Bactria was the Greek name for the area of Bactra (modern Balkh), in what is now northern Afghanistan, and Margiana was the Greek name for the Persian satrapy of Margu, the capital of which was Merv, in today's Turkmenistan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex"

Baden culture, ca 3600 BC-ca 2800 BC, a bronze age archaeological culture found in central Europe occupying an area remarkably coincident with that of Austria-Hungary minus the areas on the Adriatic. It is said to be part of a much larger archaeological complex encompassing cultures at the mouth of the Danube, eastern shore of the Black Sea and as far as the Hellespont ( Troy). ...more on Wikipedia about "Baden culture"

The Basarabi culture was an archeological culture in Romania, dated between 8th - 7th centuries BC. It was named after Basarabi, a village in Dolj County, south-western Romania, nowdays an administrative component of the Calafat municipality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basarabi culture"

The Beaker culture (also Bell-Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk, German Glockenbecherkultur), ca. 2600 — 1900 BC, is the term for a widely but spottily scattered archaeological culture of prehistoric western Europe starting in the late Neolithic ( stone age) running into the early bronze age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beaker culture" Things Go Better with www.shortopedia.com. Archaeological_cultures

The Birnirk culture is an prehistoric Inuit civilization of the north coast of Alaska, dating from 500 to 900 CE and disappearing around 1000 CE. It succeeded the Punuk and Old Bering Sea/Okvik cultures and is distingushed from those cultures due to different art and harpoon styles. It preceded the Thule culture. During the Birnirk culture, sea mammals were hunted. "Open-water pursuit" (using kayaks) was used. ...more on Wikipedia about "Birnirk culture"

The black and red ware culture (BRW) is an early Iron Age archaeological culture of the northern Indian Subcontinent. It is dated to roughly the 12th – 9th centuries BC, and associated with the post- Rigvedic Vedic civilization. ...more on Wikipedia about "Black and red ware culture"

The Blytt-Sernander classification, or sequence, is a series of north European climatic periods or phases based on the study of Danish peat bogs by Axel Blytt (1876) and Rutger Sernander (1908). The classification was incorporated into a sequence of pollen zones later defined by Lennart von Post. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blytt-Sernander"

The Bromme culture is a late Upper Paleolithic culture dated to the Alleröd Age, ca 9700 BC- 9000 BC, a warmer spell between the Elder Dryas and the Younger Dryas, the last cold periods of the late Weichsel Glaciation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bromme culture"

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