Glossary: M Terms

Mitla is an important archaeological site located in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, and an important religious center for the ancient Zapotec people.

The Mixtecs of Southern Mexico. A summary of the main cultural aspects, sites and events of Mixtec history.

The rockshelter called el Miron located in Cantabria, Spain, has several important prehistoric occupations, including a Neolithic and an Upper Paleolithic sites.

The archaeological site of Los Millares is an enormous fortified settlement, located in the Santa Fe de Mondujar, Almeria province of Andalusia, Spain.

The Miami Circle, also called Brickell Point or the Brickell Site, is a hotly debated archaeological site in downtown Miami, on the Atlantic coast of Florida.

A midden is the archaeological term for a trash heap. Archaeologists love middens, because they contain the broken remains from all kinds of cultural behaviors, including food stuff and broken crockery; exhausted stone and metal tools; organic matter and sometimes burials.

The Archaic Northwest Coast site of Milliken is located on the Fraser river of British Columbia

The Middle Awash is part of the very rich archaeological region in Ethiopia called the Afar Triangle

Minanha was the name of a Maya petty kingdom, located on the north Vaca Plateau of west-central Belize.

The Minoan civilization (Minoan culture) is what archaeologists call the early part of the prehistoric Bronze Age of Greece.

Misericordia is a vitrified fort in Portugal, which was used in a recent innovative study to test the utility of archaeomagnetic dating techniques on such sites.

The Mississippian civilization was made up of sedentary farmers of the interior rivers in North America

Mitrou is a Bronze Age and early Iron Age archaeological site located on a small tidal islet in the North Euboean Gulf of Greece

Mixtec Culture refers, in general terms, to the people who lived in the Mixteca Alta region of what is now Oaxaca state in Mexico during the Classic (300 AD-800 AD) and Post-Classic (800 AD to the Spanish conquest) periods.

The cave site of Mladec in the Czech Republic contains modern human remains, Mladec-type projectile points and other artifacts in a European site that would otherwise be assigned to the Aurignacian period of Europe; except that it lacks typical Aurignacian artifacts.

Mocha Island museum collections contain archaeological evidence that may support claims that Polynesian seafarers discovered South America, ca. 1000 AD

The Moche culture was a South American society, whose sites were located along the arid coast of what is now Peru between 100 and 800 AD

Mochlos is an island located off the north shore of Crete, with important Greek Bronze Age occupations

Mohenjo-daro (also spelled Mohanjo-Daro and translated as "Mound of Mohan"; or Moenjo-daro "Mound of the Dead") is an important Indus civilization site, located in the Sindh province of Pakistan in the floodplain of the Indus River

The archaeological site of Mojiaoshan is part of a Liangzhu complex site at Yuhang in Zhejiang Province, China.

The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Molodova is located on the Dniester River in the Chernovtsy province of the Ukraine.

The archaeological site of Monden-tsujibatake is a Yayoi period village and urnfield cemetery located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Montanissell Cave is a Middle Bronze Age burial site, located in the Catalonian region of Spain

The Montanist communities, also known as the Phrygians, were an early Christian sect of the second century AD in Asia minor.

Monte Alban was the capital city of the Zapotec civilization of central Mexico, located in the state of Oaxaca, and occupied between 500 BC and 700 AD.

The Monte Grande site is a Castelluccio culture site, located in the Agrigento region and consisting of an Early Bronze Age sanctuary and a sulfur extraction and processing site.

The copper mines in the valleys and side walls of Monte Loreto in the Liguria region of Italy are some of the earliest known copper mines in the Iberian peninsula.

Monte Verde is Southern Chile's addition to the problem of when was the earliest settlement of the American continent.

The Monteoru Culture is the name given to the Early Bronze Age culture of Romania and Bulgaria, between about 2000 and 2500 BC.

Mongooses are native to Africa and Asia, but a small group of them are to be found in the southwestern Iberian peninsula. This article discusses how they got there and who brought them.

Monumental architecture, at an archaeological site, refers to large man-made structures of stone or earth.

The moundbuilder myth was one of the earliest mythologies of the New World believed by the European settlers of the 17th and 18th centuries.

A mound is the generic name used by archaeologists to describe a man-made heap of earth, which may or may not contain a burial. Recent work has identified the structural complexity and

Mounds are a type of monumental architecture built primarily of earth, although they do occasionally have stone or wood foundations.

Moundville was a regional polity of the Mississippian civilization, located on the Black Warrior River in the southeastern part of the American state of Alabama.

The Mount Albion Complex is a form of Archaic lifestyle (hunting and gathering) that took place in high altitudes of the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin of North America.

The Mount Carmel region near the modern town of Haifa, Israel contains several of the most famous Neanderthal sites in the middle east

The Mousterian industry is an ancient Middle Stone Age method of making stone tools, associated with our hominid relatives the Neanderthals in Europe and both Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis in Africa.

The Muisca culture were people who lived in the Andes Mountains of central Columbia from about AD 1000-1550.

The Multi-Regional Hypothesis argues that our earliest hominid ancestors radiated out from Africa and Homo sapiens evolved from several different groups of Homo erectus in several places throughout the world.

Munsa is an African Iron Age village, located in southeastern Uganda/

The Mumba Rockshelter (or Mumba-Hohle) is a Middle Paleolithic and Late Stone Age site located in the Rift Valley of Tanzania, near the shore of Lake Eyasi.

The Murray Black collection was a huge collection of human skeletal material in Australia, amassed in the 1940s and 1950s by G. M. Black.

The Murray Springs site is located in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona, and it is an early Clovis site where buffalo were butchered about 11,000 years ago.

The World Heritage archaeological site of My Son was a Cham dynasty capital, between the 4th and 12th centuries AD.

The archaeological site of Mycenae, located on the steep slopes of the island of Euboea in Greece, was part of the Aegean cultures of the Argolid.

Mike Taylor's Midden (MTM) is a megamidden, one of the largest of 13 enormous shell mounds in the Western Cape region of South Africa. MTM is located on the headland of Mussel Point, on Eland's Bay of the. It is one of only a few shell middens in the Western Cape that contain evidence of use within a few centuries after the end of the megamidden period, ca. 1700-1800 BP.