Index

Early Cultures

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Worldwide

PALAEOLITHIC CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)


EUROPE Micoquien Bohunician Uluzzian Châtelperronian Szeletian Aurignacian Gravettian Pavlovian Solutrean Epigravettian Badegoulian Magdalenian Azilian Federmesser Tjongerian Tarnowian Witowian Hamburg Iron Gates Shan Koba Ahrensburg Lyngby Romanelli Valorguian Montadian Bromme Anetivka Gubs Imereti Swiderian Creswellian NEAR EAST Mousterian Emireh Ahmarian Baradostian Lev Aurignacian Antelian Kebaran Qaraoun Zarzian Natufian Shepherd N AFRICA Old Stone Age Aterian Khormusan Halfan Kubbaniyan Qadan/Sebillian FAR EAST Zhoukoudian Palaeo-Asia Ordosian Palaeo-SE Asia Palaeo-Oceania Palaeo-Japan Palaeo-Siberia Mal'ta-Buret' Afontova Gora Son Vi Soi Nhu Hoabinhian Sumnaginsk AMERICAS Palaeo-Indian Clovis Western Stemmed Western Fluted Post Pattern

MESOLITHIC & NEOLITHIC CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)


EUROPE Chokh / Tchokh Ienevo Resseta Trialetian Akrotiri Britain Komsa NE Black Sea Shpan Sursko-Dnieper Tash-Air Kobuleti Butovo Molodova-Kichkine Bilolissya Kizil-Koba (I) Maglemosian Seroglazovka Dnieper-Desna Grensk Kunden / Kunda Pesotchniy Rov Sauveterrian Sozh Fosna-Hensbacka Aceramic Cyprus Tardenoisian Asturian Elshanka Khirokitia Sesklo Bug-Dniester Dnieper-Donets I Mariupol Kongemose Cardial Pottery Criş / Körös Kakanj Karanovo Starčevo Azov-Dnieper Arukhlo Shengavit Shulaveri-Shomu La Hoguette Linear Pottery Samara Sopot Ertebølle Vinča-Turdaș Swifterbant Banat Cucuteni-Tripolye Dnieper-Donets II Hamangia Nalchik & Orlovka NEAR EAST Khiamian Pre-Pots Neolithic A Mureybetian Pre-Pots Neolithic B Harifian M'lefaatian Sultanian Fikirtepe Lodian/Jericho IX Nizzanim Yarmukian Pottery Neolithic Hassuna Samarra Halaf Ubaid Wadi Rabah AFRICA Faiyum Faiyum Neolithic FAR EAST Jomon Nanzhuangtou Shigir Idol People Bac Son Yangelka Neo-Siberians Jeulmun Quynh Van Mai Pha Cai Beo Jiahu Peiligang Cishan Houli Kel'teminar Toalean Dadiwan Hemdu Beixin AMERICAS Folsom Tradition Plano Cultures Dalton Tradition Cody Complex Archaic Period East Woodland

FIFTH TO FOURTH MILLENNIUM BC CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) FIFTH TO FOURTH MILLENNIUM BC (ML BC) CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)


EUROPE 5TH MILLENNIUM BC5TH ML BC Lengyel Lialovo/Pitted Ware Petreşti Sotira Stoicani-Aldeni-Bolgrad Gumelnița-Karanovo Khvalynsk Rössen Boian-Giuleşti-Mariţa Chasséen Sredni-Stog Tiszapolgár Zakubanye Svobodnoe Funnelbeaker Suvorovo-Novodan Pit Comb Ware Neolithic Britain NEAR EAST 5TH MILLENNIUM BC5TH ML BC Hissar AFRICA 5TH MILLENNIUM BC5TH ML BC Merimde El Omari Badarian/Tasian Amratian/Naqada I FAR EAST 5TH MILLENNIUM BC5TH ML BC Da But Daxi Yangshao Dawenkou AMERICAS 5TH MILLENNIUM BC5TH ML BC
EUROPE 4TH MILLENNIUM BC4TH ML BC Bodrogkeresztúr Cernavodă Erimi Post-Mariupol Repin Maikop Novosvobodnaya Indo-Europeans Mikhailovka Campaniform Yamnaya/Yamna Early TC/Kura-Araxes Pitted Ware Novotitorovka Usatovo Kemi-Oba Cycladic Los Millares NEAR EAST 4TH MILLENNIUM BC4TH ML BC Gawra AFRICA 4TH MILLENNIUM BC4TH ML BC Maadi Gerzean/Naqada II Naqada III Archaic Period FAR EAST 4TH MILLENNIUM BC4TH ML BC Songze Botai-Tersek Afanasevo Liangzhu Qujialing Indus Valley Majiayao Fatyanovo-Balanovo AMERICAS 4TH MILLENNIUM BC4TH ML BC Old Copper Norte Chico

THIRD & SECOND MILLENNIUM BC CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) THIRD & SECOND MILLENNIUM BC (ML BC) CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)


EUROPE 3RD MILLENNIUM BC3RD ML BC Grooved Ware Corded Ware Battle Axe Haffküstenkultur Rzucewo Volynian Corded Zlota Catacomb Bell Beaker (Iberia) Bell Beaker (Europe) Bell Beaker (Italy) Bell Beaker (Britain) Minoans Vila Nova Sao Pedro Poltavka Potapovka Philia Argaric Unetice Levantine Bronze Montelavar Motillas NW Iberian Bronze Valencian Bronze NEAR EAST 3RD MILLENNIUM BC3RD ML BC Khirbet Kerakware AFRICA 3RD MILLENNIUM BC3RD ML BC FAR EAST 3RD MILLENNIUM BC3RD ML BC Black Pottery Boat Axe Ha Long Longshan Sapalli Abashevo Qijia Andronovo Erlitou Bactria-Margiana Sintashta AMERICAS 3RD MILLENNIUM BC3RD ML BC Gulf Formational
EUROPE 2ND MILLENNIUM BC2ND ML BC Cogotas I Wessex (Britain) Seima-Turbino SW Iberian Bronze Trzciniec-Komarov Apennine Terramare Textile Ceramic Netted Ware Tumulus Cyprus Late Bronze Asturian-Cantabrian Galician Bronze Naviform Post-Argar Western-Andalusian Western Bronze Knovíz Atlantic Bronze Age Lusatian/Lausitz Urnfield Villanova Koban NEAR EAST 2ND MILLENNIUM BC2ND ML BC AFRICA 2ND MILLENNIUM BC2ND ML BC FAR EAST 2ND MILLENNIUM BC2ND ML BC Phung-nguyen Cemetery H Yueshi Srubna Timber-Grave Swat Erligang Sanxingdui Dong Dau Mumun Tazabagyab Yaz Copper Hoard Black & Redware Painted Greyware Go Mun Dong Son Sa Huỳnh AMERICAS 2ND MILLENNIUM BC2ND ML BC Pecos Anasazi Early Basketmaker II

FIRST MILLENNIUM BC/AD CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) FIRST MILLENNIUM BC/AD (ML BC) CULTURES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)


EUROPE 1ST MILLENNIUM BC1ST ML BC Latial Golasecca Cogotas II Castro Chernogorovka Talaiotic Tartessian Hallstatt Novocherkassk Pomeranian Face-Urn Bell Grave Lampshade Grave Post-Talaiotic Yukhnov La Tène Prokhorovka Zarubintsy/Zarubinets Oxhöft/Oksywie Przeworsk NEAR EAST 1ST MILLENNIUM BC1ST ML BC AFRICA 1ST MILLENNIUM BC1ST ML BC FAR EAST 1ST MILLENNIUM BC1ST ML BC Seo Dansan North Black Polished Pazyryk Dong Nai Yayoi Korean Iron Age AMERICAS 1ST MILLENNIUM BC1ST ML BC Chavin
EUROPE 1ST MILLENNIUM AD1ST ML AD Willenberg/Wielbark Chernyakhiv Vidivarii/Vidivarian Moshchiny Balkan-Danubian Dridu / Pliska-Preslav NEAR EAST 1ST MILLENNIUM AD1ST ML AD AFRICA 1ST MILLENNIUM AD1ST ML AD FAR EAST 1ST MILLENNIUM AD1ST ML AD Óc Eo Kofun AMERICAS 1ST MILLENNIUM AD1ST ML AD Mississippian Cashie Chacoan Oneota Caddoan Fort Ancient Plaquemine South Appalachian

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