Iron Age Iron Age The Achaemenid dynasty (Hakamanishiya in the Old Persian language) - was a dynasty in the ancient Persian Empire. At the height of their power, around 500 BC, the Achaemenid rulers of Persia ruled over territories roughly encompassing parts of today's Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Bulgaria, small part of Greece, Egypt, Syria, Northern India/ Pakistan, Jordan, Israel/ Palestine, Lebanon, Caucasia, Central Asia, Arabia, and Libya. ...more on Wikipedia about "Achaemenid dynasty"
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 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 Roman historian Tacitus described the Britons as being descended from people who had arrived from the continent (which at that time was dominated by the Celts), comparing the Caledonians in modern-day Scotland to their Germanic neighbours, the Silures of southern Wales to Iberian settlers and the inhabitants of south east Britannia to Gaulish tribes. This migrationist view long informed later views of the origins of the British iron age and indeed the making of the modern nations. Linguistic evidence inferred from the surviving Celtic languages in northern and western Great Britain appeared to back this idea up and the changes in material culture which archaeologists observed during later prehistory were routinely ascribed to a new wave of invaders. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Iron Age"
Brú na Bóinne ( English: "Palace on the Boyne") is an internationally important complex of Neolithic chamber tombs, standing stones, henges and other prehistoric enclosures located in a wide meander of the River Boyne in Ireland. Later, it was used for Iron Age burials. The Normans settled the area in the Middle Ages and in 1690 it was the site of the infamous Battle of the Boyne. The site is often referred to as the "Bend of the Boyne", and this is often (incorrectly) taken to be a translation of Brú na Bóinne. It is a World Heritage Site, containing what have been described as the national monuments of Ireland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brú na Bóinne"
The Chernoles culture is an iron age archaeological unit dating ca. 750–200 BC. It was located in the forest-steppe between the Dniester and Dnieper Rivers, in what is now northern Ukraine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chernoles culture"
The Chernyakhov culture (also known as Cherniakhiv culture) ( second century to fifth century) was a material culture, the distribution of which corresponded roughly to Ukraine and parts of Belarus. The term came from the site where the first burial ground of this culture was found, the village of Cherniakhiv in Ukraine's Kiev Oblast (Chernyakhov in Russian). Around the year 300, the same culture extended into Romania where, for political reasons, it is called the Sintana de Mures culture. It is attested to in thousands of sites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chernyakhov culture"
The Dacians ( Lat. Daci, Gr. Dákai) were an Indo-European people, ancient inhabitants of Dacia (corresponding to modern Romania) and parts of Moesia in southeastern Europe. The first mention of them is in Roman sources, but classical authors are unanimous in considering the Dacians a branch of the Getae, a Thracian people known from Greek writings. Strabo specified that the Daci are the Getae who lived in the area towards the Pannonian plain ( Transylvania), while the Getae proper gravitated towards the Black Sea coast ( Scythia Minor). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dacians"
Dyakovo culture ( Russian: Дьяковская культура, from the excavated monument at Dyakovo - Дьяково) is an Iron Age culture which occupies the significant part of the Upper Volga, Valday and Oka River area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dyakovskaya culture"
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"
The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy whom ancient Romans called Etrusci, ancient Greeks called Tyrrhenoi and who called themselves Rasenna, syncopated to Rasna. As distinguished by its own language, the civilization endured from an unknown prehistoric time prior to the foundation of Rome until its complete assimilation to Italic Rome in the Roman Republic. At its maximum extent during the foundation period of Rome and the Roman kingdom, it flourished in three confederacies: of Etruria, the Po valley and Latium and Campania. Rome was placed in its territory. There is considerable evidence that early Rome was founded and dominated by Etruscans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Etruscan civilization"
Gandhara grave culture emerges from ca. 1600 BC, and flourishes in Gandhara ca. 1500 BC to 500 BC (i.e. possibly up to the time of Pāṇini). ...more on Wikipedia about "Gandhara grave culture"
The Germanic Iron Age is the name given to the period 400 CE– 800 AD in Northern Europe, and it is part of the continental Age of Migrations. It follows the Roman Iron Age and the beginning is marked by the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of the Germanic kingdoms in Western Europe. In Scandinavia, it is followed by the Viking Age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Germanic Iron Age"
Hadrian's Wall ( Latin: Vallum Hadriani) was a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of Great Britain to prevent military raids by the tribes of Scotland to the north, to improve economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in the Roman province of Britannia to the south, to define the frontier of the Empire physically, and to separate the unruly Selgovae tribe in the north from the Brigantes in the south and discourage them from uniting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hadrian's Wall"
The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age, and introduced the Iron Age. It is named for its type site Hallstatt, a lakeside village in the Austrian Salzkammergut southeast of Salzburg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hallstatt culture"
The Han Dynasty ( ; 206 BC–AD 220) followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The dynasty was founded by the Liu family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Han Dynasty"
Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure near Honiton in Devon. It dates to the late fifth and early fourth millennia BC and has given its name to some of the earliest Neolithic pottery in southern Britain. An Iron Age hill fort was later built on the same site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hembury"
The term hill fort is commonly used by archaeologists to describe fortified enclosures located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. This fortification consists of one or more circular or sub-circular earth or stone ramparts, often with external ditches, following the contours of the hill. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hill fort"
European Iron Age helmets with horns are known from a few depictions, and even fewer actual finds. They were probably used for religious ceremonial or ritual purposes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Horned helmet"
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 other changes in past societies often including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iron Age"
The Koban culture (ca. 1100 to 400 BC) is a late Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of the northern and central Caucasus. It is preceded by the Colchaian culture of the western Caucasus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Koban culture"
Kuru was the name of a tribe and their kingdom in the Vedic civilization of India. Their kingdom was located in the area of modern Haryana (see Kurukshetra). They formed the first political center of the Indo-Aryans after the Rigvedic period, and after their emergence from the Punjab, and it was there that the codification and redaction of the Vedic texts began. Archaeologically, they most likely correspond to the black and red ware culture of the 12th to 9th centuries BC. At this time, iron first appears in western India. Iron is still absent from the Rigvedic hymns, and makes its first appearance as "black metal" (śyāma ayas) in the Atharvaveda. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kuru (India)"
The La Tène culture was an Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. ...more on Wikipedia about "La Tène culture"
Llyn Cerrig Bach is a small lake in the north-west of the island of Anglesey, Wales. Its main claim to fame is the large hoard of Iron Age materials discovered there in 1943, apparently placed in the lake as votive offerings. These finds are considered to be one of the most important collections of La Tène metalwork discovered in the British Isles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Llyn Cerrig Bach"
The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age ( 1300 BC- 500 BC) in eastern Germany, most of Poland, parts of Czech Republic and Slovakia (in older articles described also as Czechoslovakia) and parts of Ukraine. It covers the Periods Montelius III (early Lusatian culture) to V of the Northern-European chronological scheme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lusatian culture"
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