Bronze Age Bronze Age 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"
Afanasevo culture, 3500—2500 BC, an archaeological culture of the late copper and early bronze age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afanasevo culture"
Alashiya or Alasiya was an important state during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages and was situated somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. It was a major source of goods, especially copper, for Ancient Egypt and other states in the Ancient Near East. It is referred to in a number of the surviving texts and is now thought to be the ancient name of Cyprus, or an area of Cyprus. This was confirmed by the scientific analysis of the clay tablets which were sent from Alashiya to other rulers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alashiya"
Amesbury Archer (dubbed the "King of Stonehenge" in the British press though there is no specific connection to the famous site) is an early Bronze Age man dating to around 2300 BC, with about a 200-year margin of error, whose grave was discovered in May 2002, at Amesbury near Stonehenge. His grave is of particular importance because of the rich valuables that betoken high status, a concept not evinced in egalitarian Neolithic graves, where no graves are notably richer than others, and because of its early connections with Continental Europe and copper smelting technology. Five pottery funerary pots of the type associated with the " Beaker culture" were found with him and helped to give his grave a general date. A second male was interred nearby. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amesbury Archer"
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"
Arkaim is an archaeological site situated in the Southern Urals steppe, 8.2 km north-to-northwest of Amurskiy, and 2.3 km south-to-southeast of Alexandronvskiy, two villages in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, just to the north from the Kazakhstani border ( ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Arkaim"
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" If you like you could tell us your opinion about www.shortopedia.com
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 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"
The Bronze Age is a period in a civilisation's development when the most advanced metalworking consisted of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those metals in order to cast bronze. The bronze age is part of the three-age system for prehistoric societies. In that system, it follows the neolithic in some areas of the world. In most parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, the neolithic is directly followed by the ' iron age'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bronze Age"
Bronze Age swords appear from around the 17th century BC, evolving out of the dagger. The 3rd millennium Sumerian " sickle-sword" is an early predecessor of the backsword. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bronze Age sword"
Bryn Celli Ddu is a prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Its name is difficult to translate directly but means either 'the mound in the dark grove' or possibly 'the mound in the grove of the deity'. It was plundered in 1699 and archaeologically excavated between 1928 and 1929. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bryn Celli Ddu"
The Burney Relief is an early 2nd millennium BC (ca. 1950 BC) Mesopotamian terracotta relief (alternately said to be " Sumerian" or " Assyrian") of a winged goddess-figure with eagle's talons, flanked by owls and perched upon supine lions. It is in the British museum London, England. The goddess has been identified with the Sumerian Kisikil-lilla-ke of the Gilgamesh epos, and, somewhat optimistically, with 7th century BC Babylonian Lilitu. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burney Relief"
Cairnpapple Hill is a hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used and re-used as a major ritual site over about 4000 years, and in its day would have been comparable to better known sites like the Stones of Stenness. The summit lies 312 m above sea level, and is about 2 miles (3 km) north of Bathgate. In the 19th century the site was completely concealed by trees, then in 1947- 1948 excavations by Stuart Piggott found a series of ritual monuments from successive prehistoric periods. In 1998, Gordon Barclay re-interpreted the site for Historic Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cairnpapple Hill" shortopedia , this is it!
The Catacomb culture, ca. 3000-2200 BC, refers to an early bronze age culture occupying essentially what is present-day Ukraine. It was related to the Yamna culture, and would seem more of an areal term to cover several smaller related archaeological cultures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catacomb culture"
The Cemetery H culture developed out of the northern part of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1900 BC, in and around the Punjab region. It was named after a cemetery found in "area H" at Harappa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cemetery H culture"
Cladh Hallan is an archaeological site on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. It is significant as the only place in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been found. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cladh Hallan"
The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of 3 cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness. They fall into two sub-types, one typically consisting of a corbelled passage grave with a single burial chamber linked to the entrance by a short passage and covered with a cairn of stones, with the entrances oriented south west towards midwinter sunset. In the other sub-type an annular ring cairn encloses an apparently unroofed area with no formal means of access from the outside. In both sub-types a stone circle surrounds the whole tomb and a kerb often runs around the cairn. The heights of the standing stones vary in height so that the tallest fringe the entrance (oriented south west) and the shortest are directly opposite it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clava cairn"
The Corded Ware culture, Battle Axe culture or Single Grave culture is an enormous European archaeological horizon that begins in the late Neolithic ( stone age), flourishes through the copper age and finally culminates in the early bronze age, developing in various areas from ca. 3200 BC/ 2900 BC to ca. 2300 BC/ 1800 BC. With the Yamna culture, it represents the introduction of metal into Northern Europe, and the earliest expansion of the Indo-European family of languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corded Ware culture"
The Deverel-Rimbury culture was a name given to an archaeological culture of the British Middle Bronze Age. It is named after two barrow sites in Dorset and dates to between 1600 and 1100 BC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deverel-Rimbury culture"
Drizzlecombe is an area of Dartmoor that contains a number of Bronze Age stone rows, cairns and menhirs. Most of these are found on the southwest slope of Hartor Hill. The most interesting include a standing stone that is the largest on Dartmoor and the large Giant's Basin cairn. Drizzlecombe also includes a ruined tin mine at Eylesbarrow. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drizzlecombe"
Eildon Hill lies just south of Melrose, Scotland in the Scottish Borders, overlooking the town. The north hilltop (of three peaks) is surrounded by over 5 km (3 miles) of ramparts, enclosing an area of about 16 ha (40 acres) in which at least 300 level platforms have been cut into the rock to provide bases for turf or timber-walled houses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eildon Hill"
El Argar is the name given to an ancient civilization that flourished from the town of Antas, Almería, in the south of Spain between 1700 BCE and 1400 BCE. ...more on Wikipedia about "El Argar"
Elam ( Persian: ایلام) is one of the first civilizations on record based in the far west and southwest of modern day Iran (in the Ilam Province and the lowlands of Khuzestan). It lasted from around 2700 BC to 539 BC, coming after what is known as the Proto-Elamite period, which began around 3200 BC when Susa, the later capital of the Elamites began to receive influence from the cultures of the Iranian plateau to the east. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elam"
Entrance grave is a term given by archaeologists to a type of megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe, dating the early to middle Bronze Age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Entrance grave"
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