Entries from Da But to Deserted Medieval Villages

Denisova cave is a rockshelter located in the Altai mountains, with evidence for hominid occupation beginning 175,000 years ago.

The archaeological site called Da But is an early Neolithic cemetery and shell midden in coastal region of Thanh Hoa province of Vietnam, recently radiocarbon dated to 5085 BC.

Dacite is a fine-grained volcanic rock found in the American southwest and used to make stone tools.

Dadianzi is an early Bronze Age site located near Xiajiadian in Chifeng city of Inner Mongolia.

The Middle Neolithic archaeological site of Dadiwan is located within the upper reaches of the Yellow River near Shaodian in Qi'nan county, Gansu province of China.

The site of Dahaneh Gholaman is an Achaemenid period Persian site in Sistan-Baluchestan province in Iran and north of Zahedan, on the border of Iran and Afghanistan.

The Cana-Abomey Road was built in the 18th century by the West African kingdom of Dahomey in what is today the country of Benin.

The archaeological site of Dahshur is an Old Kingdom 4th dynasty Egypt site where some of the oldest pyramids in Egypt were built.

Daisy Cave is a rockshelter located in the northern Channel Islands off the coast of California in the western United States, with a Paleoindian occupation.

Dakhleh (also spelled Dahkla or is the name of an important oasis located in the Western Desert of Egypt about 300 kilometers west of Luxor.

The Dali cranium is a Homo erectus skull found in 1978 in Jiefang Village, Dali County of Shaanxi Province, China

The Dalton culture is the name given to one of the cultures dated to the Late Paleoindian, early Archaic (10,500-10,000 years BP) period in the North American continent

The Dama de Elche is the statue of a woman dated to 4th or 5th centuries BC, recently identified as a funerary urn.

Danebury is the name of an Iron age hillfort in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England, built during the 6th century BC.

Danger Cave, located in western Utah in the American southwest, contains evidence of 11,000 years of occupation in the desert southwest.

Daoism is a belief system that arose in China during the Han dynasty, developing from the primitive shamanism of the Ba culture into a formal Daoist religion during the second century BC.

Dar es-Soltan is a cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, with important Aterian stone tool industry occupations

Dara is the name of a site in central Egypt near the modern town of Asyut and outside the Dahklah Oasis.

The cave called Darra-i-Kur is a Middle Paleolithic site in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan

Dartmoor is an extensive agricultural field system in Devon, southwest England, dated to the latter part of the 2nd millennium BC; now a national park in the UK.

The Dawenkou culture is the name given to the Late Neolithic period of Shandong Province, China, between 5000-3000 BC.

The Daxi site is a large Neolithic period settlement and cemetery located in Wushan county within Qutang Gorge of the Yangzi River valley, China.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are the name given to a collection of almost 800 documents written in Hebrew and Aramaic dated between third century B.C. to 68 AD.

Debitage is the collective term used by archaeologists to refer to the sharp-edged waste material left over when someone creates a stone tool

The word decipherment is used by archaeologists to refer to the translation of ancient script forms into modern day language.

Deer Lake Beach is a multicomponent Beaches, Beothuk and Recent Indian site, located on an inlet with coastal access in Newfoundland.

Deir el-Medina is a New Kingdom (18th dynasty) residential village of the workmen who built and decorated Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Delos is the name of an island in the Aegean Sea, which according to the Greek legends, is the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

The site of Delphi is the location of a classic Panhellenic sanctuary of Greece, first occupied in the early Archaic period.

The Denali complex is a name given to early inhabitants of Arctic North America, also called Paleoarctic

The Denbigh Flint Culture is the name given to one of two patterned stone tool complexes of the arctic region around 2500 BC to 800 BC (the other is Pre-Dorset).

Dendrochronology is the name given to the archaeological dating technique which uses the growth rings of long-lived trees as a calendar.

The archaeological site of Denisova Cave is located on the Anui River, in the Altai region of Siberia and cut into the face of a steep limestone cliff.

Dereivka is a Eneolithic (or Copper Age) village in the Dneiper Valley of the Ukraine, dated 3380-4570 BC, excavated by Dmitriy Yakolevich Telegin of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the 1980s.

Desert kites are an ancient hunting technique of building stone walls to herd animals to the slaughter.

Desert castles are Islamic fortifications built during the earliest days of Islamic expansion, in the 8th century AD.

During the late Middle Ages, thousands of small villages were abandoned, as a result of the Black Death, or related causes; these are called Deserted Medieval Villages.

The Devil's footprints are a trail of footprint tracks made in the volcanic ash of the Quaternary volcano Roccamonfina in the Campanian plain of southern Italy, about 345,000 years ago

Devil's Lair is one of the oldest securely dated archaeological cave sites in Australia.

Tell el Dab'a is the modern name of the capital city for the Hyksos in the Nile delta region of Egypt, called Avaris.

Daisy Cave is a rockshelter located in the northern Channel Islands off the coast of California in the western United States, with a Paleoindian occupation.