Bronze Age Archaeology
Afragola
Afragola is an Early Bronze Age village in Italy, that was destroyed--and preserved--by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius ~3760 ± 70 BP.
A Photo Essay on the Antikythera Mechanism
This photo essay illustrates some of the findings of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, investigating a 2300 year old astronomical computing tool.
Misericordia (Portugal)
Misericordia is a proto-historic vitrified hillfort located near the city of Serpa in southern Portugal.
Opatów, Poland (Site 1)
Opatów is the name of a village located in the Klobuck District of the Silesian Province in Southern Poland, and Site 1 is the designation of a enormous cemetery used during the Bronze Age through Hallstatt C/D periods
Trivia Quiz: Europe 1300 BC
What was life like for the Bronze Age residents of Europe about 3300 years ago?
AnYang, China
Three seasons of excavations at the ancient Chinese city of AnYang have produced a wealth of information at this Bronze Age capital of the Shang Dynasty.
Gordion (Turkey)
The archaeological site of Gordion dates to the Bronze Age and is located in central Turkey, about 100 kilometers west of the modern town of Ankara.
Canaan
Canaan (also called Phoenicia) is the name of a Bronze Age culture and country in what is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon.
Castelluccio Culture
The Castelluccio Culture is a Bronze Age (2000-1400 BC) culture of Sicily, and the name of the type site.
Hisarlik, Turkey
Almost certainly the site of Homer's Troy, Turkey, 1st and 2nd millenia BC.
Homeric Questions
From your About.com guides to Archaeology and Ancient History, an eight part series on Homer's Troy, Schliemann, and Hissarlik.
Non Nok Tha (Thailand)
The site of Non Nok Tha, Khok Kaen province of Thailand, belongs to the Phu Lon complex and dates between 1500 and 1000 BC.
Niuheliang (China)
The archaeological site of Niuheliang, is a late Neolithic Hongshan and Bronze Age culture site in Liaoning Province.
Non Pa Wai (Thailand)
The Bronze Age mining site of Non Pa Wai is located near Lopburi in central Thailand.
Nong Nor (Thailand)
The Bronze Age site of Nong Nor is a small fishing village located in central Thailand.
Testwood Lakes Bridge (England)
On-going excavations by Wessex archaeology have recovered substantial information about the oldest bridge detected yet in England, dated to the MIddle Bronze Age, about 1500 BC.
Phung Nguyen culture
The Bronze Age people of the Phung Nguyen culture of Vietnam were wet rice farmers, who lived in sedentary villages on the Red River valley.