Allyu is the Inca word for the social and political system of organization for the Inca Empire.
One of the primary tools of the religious specialist, Altered States of Consciousness can be achieved through fasting, dehydration, lack of sleep, blood loss, extreme pain, chanting, sweat lodges, and ingesting psychoactive drugs.
Afragola is an Early Bronze Age village (Palma Campania period) in what is today Italy, that was damaged by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius ~3760 ± 70 BP.
The site of 'Ain Ghazal is an early Neolithic village site located along the banks of the Zarqa River near Amman, Jordan.
The term Aegean Cultures refers to the Bronze Age civilizations (ca 3100-1100 BC) which were located on islands in or near the Aegean sea.
The Afanasievo culture is an Eneolithic (the period between the Neolithic and Bronze ages) culture of southern Siberia
The Afar Triangle is the name given to the region of Ethiopia, Africa, known for the identification of very old hominid remains, especially the Australopithicus afarensis.
The Afontova culture is the name given to the Upper paleolithic culture in Siberia, 22,000-14,000 years before the present.
Aguateca is a Late Classic period Maya site, and the largest Maya site in the region of the Petexbatun escarpment in Guatemala.
The Ahrensburg culture is the name archaeologists have given to the early prehistoric (transitional Late Paleolithic to Mesolithic) culture of Scandinavia, 12,500-9000 BC.
The Ainu are modern hunter-fisher-gatherer group of the Hokkaido region of northeastern Japan.
In the 11th century AD the Akan were a West African forest kingdom in what is now Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
Akkad was the historical name of the southern region of Mesopotamia beginning during the 25th century BC
Akra is a large important site of the Harrappan and Achaemenid civilizations, located in the Bannu Basin south of Peshawar in what is today Pakistan.
The archaeological site of Akrotiri is the name given to a small Minoan settlement located on the volcanic island of Thera in the Aegean Sea.
Aksum was the name of a kingdom and capital city in what is now Ethiopia of the 1st through 6th century AD.
The archaeological site of Al-Rawda is an outlier of the northern Mesopotamian civilization located in the dry steppe zone of interior Syria southeast of Aleppo.
The Aleppo Codex is an early manuscript version of the Judaeo-Christian bible, dated to about 935 AD
The modern town of Alexandria, Egypt, was the capital city of the Ptolemaic dynasties of Egypt.
The Algonquin was a proto-historic and historic cultural group of the eastern North American continent at the time of the first European settlement.
The Serpent Mound, or Alligator Mound, located in southern Ohio in the American midwest, is a large earthen spiral structure in the shape of a partially coiled serpent (or at least that's our interpretation).
The Almoravid Dynasty was a Berber empire located in North Africa during the 11th and 12th centuries AD.
Alpine Lake Dwellings are a type of archaeological site found at the edge of lakes in the Alps or other mountainous regions
Altamira Cave is the Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic Art, or so it is called.
