The site of Silbury Hill is a gigantic flat-topped earthwork, in Wiltshire, England, and it is in fact the largest prehistoric man-made mound in prehistoric Europe.
A shaman is a type of religious specialist who uses altered states of consciousness to directly interact with gods and supernatural agents.
Sibudu Cave is an extremely important Middle Stone Age (MSA) rockshelter located on the Tongati River near the KwaZulu coast of South Africa.
The last gasp of the Siberian upper paleolithic period (ca 18,000-11,000 BP) is an important one to understanding the colonization of the American continents.
The archaeological site of Sidon includes the ruins of what was an important city-state of the Iron Age civilization of Phoenicia also called Canaan, and the center port for trade between Assyria, Egypt, Cyprus and the Aegean Sea between the sixth and fifth centuries BC.
Shamanism is the term given by anthropologists to the most basic and universal form of religion: the ritual specialist or shaman.
The Bronze Age Shang Dynasty in China is roughly dated between 1700-1050 BC
The archaeological site of Shanga is located on an island in the Lamu archipelago off the coast of Kenya in eastern Africa.
Excavations were conducted at the Neanderthal site of Shanidar Cave during the 1950s by Ralph S. Solecki and Rose L. Solecki.
The deeply buried, stratified Shawnee Minisink archaeological site is located on the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States.
A shell midden is a type of archaeological site made almost entirely of mussel shells.
The emperor Shi Huangdi [246-210 BC] was the Tiger of Qin, the first emperor of China, who unified the warring tribes into one group; his tomb includes the fabulous terra cotta army.
The Shi Ji is the name given to an enormous history of China's dynastic empires, written during the second century BC.
The Shield Archaic Tradition is the name given to a prehistoric culture of the boreal forests of the northern Canadian Shield between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay.
Shilla was an early Buddhist state in what is now North and South Korea, between 57 BC and AD 935.
The study of ships and sea-faring is often called maritime archaeology
The Shizhaishan site, located in Yunnan Province, is a cemetery site dated between 250 BC-250 AD, and belonging to Dian people of the Warring States and Han periods.
The chiefdoms of the Shona were located between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers in southern Africa between 1100 and 1500 AD, where they built Great Zimbabwe.
The Sican culture is the name archaeologists have given to one of several gold-working people who predated the Inca in what is now Peru between about 900-1300 AD.
Sidun is an archaeological site in Jiangsu province, China, belonging to the Liangzhu culture and dated between 3300-2200 BC.
The Sierra de Atapuerca is an ancient karst topography region of Spain, where several caves are located with evidence of very old occupations.
The site of Silbury Hill is a gigantic flat-topped barrow, in Wiltshire, England, and it is in fact the largest prehistoric artificial mound in prehistoric Europe
The Silk Route (or Silk Road) is the name given to a network of trade routes crossing Asia, first reported to have been used during the Han Dynasty [206 BC-220 AD] in China
The Similaun Man (also known as the Iceman) was found in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, a Bronze Age hunter lost in a storm between 3350-3300 BC
The Homo erectus skull cap first called Sinanthropus pekinsis or Peking Man was found in 1927 in the cave known as Zhoukoudian by the Chinese archaeologist W.C. Pei.
The Sinú culture of South America is another of several gold-working communities located on the Colombian coastline between about AD 300-1550.
The Sipán site is a large Moche culture administrative and religious center, located in the lower Lambayeque Valley on the northern coast of Peru.
The archaeological ruins of the Congregational Mosque of Siraf are located in the port city of Siraf on the gulf coast of Iran.
The term Sirikwa Holes is the local name for depressions found throughout the western highlands of Kenya and in northern Tanzania; they represent late Iron Age hut locations.
In archaeology, the term Site Formation Processes refers to the events that created an archaeological site.
