Glossary: K Terms
Keatley Creek (British Columbia, Canada)
Keatley Creek is an important archaeological site in British Columbia, where hunter-gatherers built a village about 1500 years ago.
K2 Village
K2 Village is an archaeological site located in South Africa, and it is the type site for the K2 culture of the Shashi-Limpopo Basin
Kaletepe Deresi 3 (Turkey)
The site of Kaletepe Deresi 3 is located in the Göllü Dag region of central Turkey, and it contains at least three Middle and Lower Paleolithic archaeological components.
Kaminaljuyu (Guatemala)
Kaminaljuyu is a highland Maya site, located in what is today Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Kapova Cave (Russia)
Kapova cave is a Paleolithic rock art site in Bashkortotstan in the southern Ural Mountains of Russia
Karnak (Egypt)
Karnak is the name of a long-used Egyptian temple near Luxor, the largest of the religious sanctuaries in Thebes.
Kathu Pan (South Africa)
Kathu Pan is the name of a Middle Paleolithic site in South Africa, where evidence of early projectile point use has been identified, dated to some 500,000 years ago.
Kastri Group
The Kastri Group is the name given by Aegean scholars to a cultural group of the Early Cycladic period in the Greek islands and Crete
Kebara Cave (Israel)
Located on the western escarpment of Mount Carmel, Kebara Cave has two important components, Middle Paleolithic Aurignacian and Mousterian, and Epi-Paleolithic Natufian.
Kerma (Sudan)
Kerma is the name of a Kushite kingdom and cultural group in the Sudanese Nubia, which grew out of the A-Group culture (or pre-Kerma) during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (ca 2000-1600 BC).
Kelp Highway Hypothesis
The Kelp Highway Hypothesis is a theory concerning the original colonization of the American continents.
Kerkenes (Turkey)
The archaeological site of Kerkenes is located on the northern edge of the Cappadocian plain in Yozgat province in central Anatolia (modern day Turkey).
Khafre's Pyramid at Giza
One of the three main Old Kingdom pyramids located at Giza in Egypt, Khafre's pyramid was built between 2558 and 2532 BC,
Kharaneh IV (Jordan)
Kharaneh IV is an epipaleolithic site, located within the Azraq Basin of Jordan, with archaeological evidence for some of the earliest structures in the region, ca. 20,000 years ago.
Khirigsuur
A khirigsuur is a type of monument found on Bronze Age sites in the Mongolian region of China.
Khirbet Qumran (Jordan)
The archaeological site of Khirbet Qumran is an ancient cave site, from whence was pulled the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 and 1948, causing all kinds of trouble.
Khmer Civilization
The Angkor Civilization (or Khmer Civilization) is the name given to an important civilization of Cambodia and Thailand
Khotan (Xingjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China)
Khotan aka Ancient Yutien in the Xingjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
Khufu's Pyramid - the Great Pyramid at Giza
The largest of the three Old Kingdom pyramids located at Giza in Egypt, Khufu's pyramid was built between 2589 and 2566 BC.
Khuzhir-Nuge (Russia)
Khuzhir-Nuge XIV is a Bronze Age cemetery site in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia
Kites
Kites refers to neither the kid's toy nor the bird, but rather are an ancient hunting technique of building stone walls to herd animals to the slaughter.
Klisoura Cave (Greece)
Klisoura Cave is a rockshelter and collapsed karstic cave in Klisoura gorge in the north-western Peloponnese, with a long occupation history and evidence for constructed hearths during the Upper Paleolithic.
King Site (Georgia)
The King site (probably) the Mississippian village of Piachi, in central Georgia, part of the Tuscaluza Polity in the 16th century AD.
Kitara Dynasty
The Chwezi Dynasty (also called Bachwezi or Kitara Dynasty) is the possibly mythical, certainly legendary, kingdom of Uganda, who are said to have ruled between 1300 and 1500 AD.
Knossos (Greece)
The location of Knossos, reported by Homer to be the site of the palace of the legendary King Minos, Daedalus, and the Labyrinth, is on the island of Crete.
Kiva
A kiva is a ceremonial structures used by ancient and modern Puebloan societies through the American southwest
Kitselas Site (Canada)
The archaeological site called both Paul Mason and Kitselas, is an early Native American village site located in northern British Columbia.
Knowth (Ireland)
Knowth is the name of one of several megalithic tomb sites located within the Boyne valley (called Brú na Bóinne in Gaelic) of Ireland.
Kokiselei Complex (Kenya)
Kokiselei is what archaeologists have called the site in Kenya where the earliest-to-date appearance of the Acheulean Handaxe has been found, on the western shore of Lake Turkana, in the famous Rift Valley of Kenya.
Komchen (Yucatan, Mexico)
Komchen is a preclassic Maya site in Yucatan which became important because of its role in the production and trade of marine salt in ancient Mesoamerica
Kommos (Greece)
Kommos was a major Minoan harbor located on the southern shore of Crete near the center of the island.
Koonalda Cave (Australia)
Koonalda Cave is a karst formation limestone cave with art dated to the Pleistocene, located near the southern coast of the Nullarbor Plain of South Australia.
Koro-Toro
Koro-Toro is a region in the Djurab Desert of Chad, where fossil evidence of ancient human remains dating to 3.5 million years ago have been discovered.
Krum Bay Site, Virgin Islands
The Archaic site of Krum Bay is an Early occupation of the Caribbean, located on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands
Kostenki (Russia)
Kostenki on the Don River is an important group of early upper paleolithic sites
Krasnyi Yar (Kazakhstan)
Krasnyi Yar is a site in Kazakhstan where the earliest evidence yet for horse domestication has been discovered.
Korsnäs (Sweden)
Korsnäs is the name of an open air archaeological sites located on the northwestern part of the Södertörn peninsula in Sweden.
Kumbi Saleh (Mauritania)
The Iron Age archaeological site of Kumbi Saleh was built by the west African Soninke society about AD 600, and was probably used as a capital city for the Ghana empire.
Kot Diji (Pakistan)
Kot Diji is an important Harappan civilization site located in the Rohri Hills of Khairpur province of Pakistan.
Kurgan
A kurgan is a type of burial mound built by several groups of nomadic people of central Asia
Kuyunjik (Iraq)
Kuyunjik is an alternative name for the site of Nineveh, in the modern city of Mosul, Iraq.
Kuk Swamp (New Guinea)
Kuk Swamp contains archaeological evidence of very old agricultural processes in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
Kutama Tradition
The Kutama tradition is the name given to the archaeological remains of a Berber tribe in Algeria, who might be descendants of the Byzantine Ucucutmani people.
Kuélap (Peru)
The circular stone fortress of Kuélap is located on a rocky promontory deep in the Amazon rainforest of Peru, and dates to the Chachapoyas culture.
Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi (Canada)
Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi, or "Long Ago Person Found" is the name given to the human individual discovered melting out of a glacier in northwestern British Columbia in 1999.