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The Tekke Hoard

The Tekke Hoard (also spelled Teke) refers to two ceramic vessels discovered buried in the floor of a looted tomb in an Iron Age cemetery northwest of Knossos.

Tas Kule (Turkey)

Tas Kule is a tomb, a freestanding monument carved out of an outcrop of limestone bedrock in a valley floor, seven km east of the ancient Lycian and Greek town of Phokaia

Taima Taima (Venezuela)

The site of Taima-Taima is located within deeply buried, stratified beach sand deposits in northern Venezuela, and consists of lithic tools (including paleoindian-era El Jobo points) in contact with a mastodon skeleton.

Taino Culture

The Taino people were one of the cultures in the Caribbean that had the misfortune to meet Christopher Columbus

Taj Mahal (India)

The Taj Mahal, at Agra, India, must be the most famous grave monument in the world.

Takrur Empire

The Takrur empire was an early kingdom of west Africa, including much of Ghana and the western Sahara desert.

Taltheilei Shale Tradition

The Taltheilei Shale Tradition is the name given to the material culture of the late prehistoric western subarctic culture, dated between 750 B.C. and A.D. 1000.

Tana Tradition

The Tana tradition pottery (also known as 'Triangular Incised Ware'), is found in archaeological sites along the east coast of Africa between the 8th and 11th centuries AD.

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty in China lasted between AD 618 and 907, with its capital sited at Chang'an on the Silk Road.

Taos Conference

The Taos Conference is the name given to a 1988 committee meeting of the Society for American Archaeology where the Save the Future for the Past project was initiated.

Taosi (China)

Taosi is an enormous Longshan culture site, located in Shanxi province of China. It was discovered in 2000.

Taphonomy

The study of taphonomy in general is interested in how animals and plants become part of the fossil record.

Tappeh Sialk (Iran)

The archaeological site of Tappeh Sialk is an important Early Neolithic site near the modern town of Kashan in Iran, with occupations dated to as early as 6000 BC.

Tarascan Culture

The Tarascan culture or empire is the name given by the Spaniards to the Phurhépecha state of central America, dated to the Late Post Classic, between 1100 and 1530 AD.

Taruga (Nigeria)

The archaeological site of Taruga is located in northern Nigeria, and it is one of a few iron smelting sites associated with the Nok cutlure between 500 BC and AD 200.

Taung (South Africa)

The Taung site is a limestone quarry located in the Transvaal region of South Africa.

Tautavel Cave (France)

The site of Tautavel Cave (also called Caune de l'Arago) is an ancient karst cave in the Tautavel valley of France containing over 40 very old occupations

Taxila (Pakistan)

The World Heritage site of Taxila is located in Punjab Province of what is now Pakistan, about 30 kilometers from Islamabad.

Tegdaoust (Mauritania)

The archaeological site of Tegdaoust is a Berber site in Mauritania, and probably represents the historical town called Awdaghost, a site on the crucial caravan trade network in Saharan Africa during the 9th century AD.

Tehuacan Valley (Mexico)

The Tehuacan Valley in the state of Puebla, Mexico, was the focus of a large-scale survey led by American archaeologist R.S. MacNeish during the 1960s.

Tekkalakota (India)

Tekkalakota is a Neolithic period site in Bellary district, India, where archaeologists found the foundations of circular huts and a small cemetery

Tel Tsaf (Israel)

The archaeological site of Tel Tsaf is a Middle Chalcolithic site located near Beth-Shean in the Jordan Valley of Israel

Teleilat Ghassul (Jordan)

The archaeological site of Teleilat Ghassul is a Chalcolithic site located in the Jordan Valley about 50 miles northeast of the Dead Sea.

Telloh (Iraq)

The archaeological site of Telloh is the remains of an ancient Sumerian city called Girsu, occupied between 2500-2300 BC.

Temples and Shrines

Basically, archaeologists think of the word temple as meaning one of three kinds of shrines.

Templo Mayor (Mexico)

The principal temple for the Aztec people living in Tenochtitlan, the Templo Mayor was built beginning in the year 1390 AD.

Tenayuca (Mexico)

The site of Tenayuca is a Middle Post Classic period city and pyramid located in the state of Mexico north of Mexico City.

Tene, La (Switzerland)

The archaeological site of La Tène is located on the edge of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland; it is the type site for the Iron Age (450-50 BC) culture for which it is named.

Tenochtitlan (Mexico)

The capital city of the Aztec civilization, Tenochtitlan is now the metropolis of Mexico City.

Teotihuacan (Mexico)

The city of Teotihuacan was built in the highlands of central Mexico about 150 BC and became one of the largest cities in the world of the time.

Tepanec Empire

The Tepanec Empire was based at the city state of Azcapotzalco when war with their Aztec neighbors to the north broke out in AD 1428.

Tepe Gawra (Iraq)

The site of Tepe Gawra is a Mesopotamian city in northern Iraq, fifteen kilometers from the modern town of Mosul.

Ternifine (Algeria)

Ternifine is an Acheulean site located near Palikao in the Oran region of Algeria, which contained hominin skeletal material, stone tools and theropithecus remains.

Terra Amata (France)

Terra Amata is an Acheulean paleolithic site located on the Mediterranean coast of southern France near the modern town of Nice.

Textiles

Archaeologists use the word textiles to refer to woven cloth, bags, nets, basketry, cord-twisting, sandals and other perishable material created out of organic fibers.

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