Archaeological sites

Adelsö is an island in the middle of the lake Mälaren in Sweden near southern and northern Björkfjärden. The administrative center of the important Viking settlement Birka (on the neighbouring island Björkö) was situated at Hovgården on Adelsö. Birka and Adelsö form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adelsö"

Adulis is an archeological site in Eritrea, about 30 miles south of Massawa. It was the port of the Kingdom of Aksum, located on the coast of the Red Sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adulis"

Aetokremnos is a rock shelter near Limassol on the southern coast of Cyprus. It is situated on a steep cliff site ca. 40m above the Mediterranean. The name means "Cliff of the vultures" in Greek. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aetokremnos"

Altamira ( Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its cave paintings. It is located near the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, 30 km west of the city of Santander. ...more on Wikipedia about "Altamira (cave)"

The Alvastra pile-dwelling ( ) is a pile dwelling from ca 3000 BC in neolithic Scandinavia. South Scandinavia has many types of cult centres, but the Alvastra pile dwelling is unique in Northern Europe and is the only of its kind outside of the Alpine Pile Dweller culture. It was the seasonal social and religious centre of a tribe, who left objects from the Funnelbeaker culture but pottery from the Pitted Ware culture, in the dwelling. Ca 2/3 of the pile dwelling was excavated by archaeologists 1908– 18, 1928– 39 and 1976– 80. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alvastra pile-dwelling"

The Ancient Tenements are the oldest surviving farms on Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom. They have been established here since 14th century, and sometimes earlier. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient Tenements"

Angel Mounds State Historic Site is located on the Ohio River in Vanderburgh County, Indiana adjacent to Evansville. It is part of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Indiana State Museums and Historic Sites. It is one of 16 state museums and historic sites in Indiana. It is named after the Angel Family who settled in this location along the Ohio River in the early 1800s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angel Mounds"

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archaeological site"

Atapuerca, also known as Sierra de Atapuerca or Sierra Atapuerca, is an ancient karst topography region of Spain, containing several caves such as the Gran Dolina site, where fossils and stone tools of the one of the earliest known hominids in Europe have been found, dating to between 780,000 and 1 million years ago. It is believed that the fossils may belong to either Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, or a new species called Homo antecessor. Other important sites of Atapuerca is knowed as "Sima de los Huesos" (Pit of the bones). This site is located deep inside the Cueva Mayor and the fossils from there have a minimum age of 350,000 years old and corresponding to Middle Pleistocene. The "Sima de los huesos" contains abundant human remains representing aprox. 30 skeleton of the specie Homo heidelbergensis, a direct ancestor of the Neandertals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atapuerca"

Modern Baalbek ( Arabic: بعلبك) is a town in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed but monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baalbek"

Bad-tibira was an ancient Sumerian city. The name means metal worker in Sumerian. It was also called Panti-Biblos in Greek. The founder of the city was the king-god Dumuzid. The city has been located as modern Tell al-Madain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bad-tibira"

Berenice or Berenice Troglodytica (now known as Medinet-el Haras) is an ancient seaport of Egypt. It was founded by Ptolemy II ( 285 BC— 247 BC) on the west coast of the Red Sea. He named the town after his wife, Berenice I of Egypt. Troglodytica refers to the aboriginal people of the region, the "Troglodytai" or "cave dwellers". Although the name is attested by several ancient writers, the more ancient Ptolemaic inscriptions read Trogodytai (which G.W.B. Huntingford has speculated could be related to the same root as Tuareg, or to the Arabic word tawāriq, sing. tāriqa, "tribe"). It is possible that copyist later confused this name with the more common term Troglodytai. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berenice (port)"

Bilzingsleben is a findspot of early palaeolithic human remains in Thuringia, Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bilzingsleben"

Birka , also Birca and Bierkø (today named Björkö, literally "Birch Island"), was an important trading center in the Baltic Sea region from the 8th century, which handled goods from Eastern Europe and the Orient, possibly as far as China, thus covering most of the Viking Age. Björkö is located in the Lake Mälaren, just west of Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö in Sweden. Birka and Hovgården is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993. ...more on Wikipedia about "Birka"

Biskupin is an archaeological site and a life-size model of an Iron Age fortified settlement ( gród) in Poland, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship. It belongs to the Biskupin group of the Lusatian culture. The excavation and the reconstruction of the prehistoric settlement have played an important part in Polish historical consciousness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biskupin"

Botsra, Botzrah, Bozrah ( Hebrew: בצרה) is an ancient biblical city in southern modern-day Jordan, now Bouseira between Tafile ( Tophel) and Shobaq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bozrah"

Byblos (βύβλος) is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal (earlier Gubla); ...more on Wikipedia about "Byblos"

Bylany is a Danubian Neolithic settlement located around 65 km (40 miles) east of Prague in the Czech region of Bohemia. Excavation began in 1956 and work continues today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bylany"

Cahal Pech is a Maya site located near the Town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize. The site was a palacio home for an elite Maya family and dates back to as early as 400 AD. The site rests high near the banks of the Macal River and is a collection of 34 structures, with the tallest being roughly 25 m in height. The site was abandonned in the 9th century AD for unknown reasons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cahal Pech"

Cantona is a relatively unknown archaeological site in Mexico. It is located in the state of Puebla, on the border with Veracruz, about an hour's drive from the city of Puebla. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cantona"

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park and World Heritage Site which contains the densest and most exceptional concentration of large pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a relatively inaccessible valley cut by the Chaco Wash. The park preserves one of America's most fascinating cultural and historic areas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaco Culture National Historical Park" Things go better with www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia

The Chauvet Cave or Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave is a cave located near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, in the Ardèche département, in southern France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chauvet Cave"

Chedworth is a village in Gloucestershire, best known as the location of a Roman villa now administered by the National Trust. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chedworth"

Choirokoitia is an archaeological site on the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea, dating from the Neolithic age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Choirokoitia"

About 150 arrangements of prehistoric circular ditches are known to archaeologists spread over Germany, Austria and Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Their diameters range from ca. 20 to ca. 130 m, and they date to the 5th millennium BC. Tools, bones, and some artefacts were found in their context. The largest of these arrangements to date was found in Leipzig in the 1990s. Another large find was at the nearby village of Aythra, outside of Leipzig. From finds in the context of these ditches, and associated settlements of longhouses, it was established that they were in use for about 200 years, until roughly 4600 BC. Similar monumental arrangements were only to re-appear in the Bronze Age, some three millennia later. ...more on Wikipedia about "Circular ditches" There's a bit of http://www.shortopedia.com in all of us.

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