Archaeology Terms from Aegean Cultures to Altamira Cave

'Ain Ghazal (Jordan)
'Ain Ghazal is an early Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic village site near Amman, Jordan.

Aegean Cultures
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.

Afanasievo culture
The Afanasievo culture is an Eneolithic (the period between the Neolithic and Bronze ages) culture of southern Siberia

Afar Triangle
The Afar Triangle is the name given to the region of Ethiopia, Africa, known for the identification of very old hominid remains, especially the Australopithecus afarensis.

Afontova culture
The Afontova culture is the name given to the Upper paleolithic culture in Siberia, 22,000-14,000 years before the present.

Afragola
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.

Agave
Agave is an ancient domesticated plant from Mesoamerica which was used for fiber production and to ferment for alcoholic drinks.

Aguateca (Guatemala)
Aguateca is a Late Classic period Maya site, and the largest Maya site in the region of the Petexbatun escarpment in Guatemala.

Ahrensburg Culture
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.

Ainu
The Ainu are modern hunter-fisher-gatherer group of the Hokkaido region of northeastern Japan.

Akan Culture
In the 11th century AD the Akan were a West African forest kingdom in what is now Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

Aké (Yucatan, Mexico)
Ake is one of the largest Maya cities in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico; its ancient ruins were visited by the famous Maya explorers John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood...

Akkad
Akkad was the historical name of the southern region of Mesopotamia beginning during the 25th century BC

Akra (Pakistan)
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.

Akrotiri (Greece)
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 (Ethiopia)
Aksum was the name of a kingdom and capital city in what is now Ethiopia of the 1st through 6th century AD.

al Rafiqa (Syria)
The archaeological site of al-Rafiqa is an Abbasid site in Syria

Al-Rawda (Syria)
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.

Aleppo Codex
The Aleppo Codex is an early manuscript version of the Judaeo-Christian bible, dated to about 935 AD

Alexandria (Egypt)
Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

Algonquin Culture
The Algonquin was a proto-historic and historic cultural group of the eastern North American continent at the time of the first European settlement.

Alexandria (Egypt)
The modern town of Alexandria, Egypt, was the capital city of the Ptolemaic dynasties of Egypt.

Alligator Mound (Ohio)
Alligator Mound, sometimes called Serpent Mound is a large earthen spiral structure in the shape of a partially coiled serpent, associated with the Mississippian Fort Ancient culture.

Almoravid Dynasty
The Almoravid Dynasty was a Berber empire located in North Africa during the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

Allyu
Allyu is the Inca word for the social and political system of organization for the Inca Empire.

Alpacas
Alpacas is a species of camelid native to South America, domesticated in the Andean highlands of Peru.

Altered States of Consciousness
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.

Alpine Lake Dwellings
Alpine Lake Dwellings are a type of archaeological site found at the edge of lakes in the Alps or other mountainous regions

Altamira Cave (Spain)
Altamira Cave is the Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic Art, or so it is called.

Aleutian Tradition (ca 2500 BC – AD 1800)
The history of the Aleutian, and the Aleutian Tradition in archaeology.