World Archaeology Dates

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Alexander the Great

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Died in 323 BC

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Classical Neandertals

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70,000 years ago

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Constantine the Great

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died 337 AD

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domestication of Maize in Mesoamerica

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~5000BC

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Earliest writing in SW Asia

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~3200 BC

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Earliest sites in Australia

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4000 BC

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First cereal agriculture in SW Asia

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rye - 11000 BC
wheat and barley - 8900 BC

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First cities in Mesoamerica

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1500 BC

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Wheat and Barley in the Nile Valley

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5000 BC

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First villages in South Asia

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~6500 BC

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Giza Pyramids, Egypt

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2500 BC

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Oldest Indus Cities

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2600 BC

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Irrigation, SW Asia

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~5900 BC

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Jamon Pottery, Japan

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~14,000 BC

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Lascaux Cave Paintings, France

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~18,000 BC

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Oldest Pottery in SW North America

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~0 AD

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Sack of Rome

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410 AD

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Settled Agricultural Villages in East Asia

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6000 BC

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Stonehenge, England

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2800 - 1800 BC

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Younger Dryas

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10,800 BC- 9,600 BC

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Monte Verde

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~14000 BP

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Beringia exposed

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last exposed 34,000-11,000 BP
Longest exposure 22,000-19,000 BP

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ice free corridor closed

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22,000-14,000 BP

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clovis

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11,000 BP

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preservation bias

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stone survives better than organics

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Pre-Clovis sites

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Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Cactus Hill, Topper, Monte Verde

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Paul S. Martin

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Pleistocene Overkill Hypothesis

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Kennewick Man

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found along Columbia river
9300 BP

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Megafaunal extinctions

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35 genera now extinct

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pro overkill hypothesis

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big game favored by hunters
slow breeding
survivors were nocturnal and/or mountain or deep forest dwellers

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against overkill hypothesis

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of 35 genera, only 2 shows signs of hunting
only 8 became extinct between 12,000-10,000 BP, when clovis hunters arrived

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Iceman

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5300 years old
pushed back transition to copper age
medicinal tattoos
killed by arrowpoint

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antiquaries

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traded and collected antiques and relics
focus on object not on peoples

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thunderbolts

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flints, people thought they were metal hit by lightning and turned to stone

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Michel Mercati

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first man to say Thunderbolts were really a stone

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Georges Cuvier

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paleontologist
could date fossils

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Thompson

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3 age system
stone, bronze, iron

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Altamora

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discovery of cave painting
1879

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C14 dating appeared

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1949

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cultural evolution

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hunting and gathering > incipient agriculture > formative (intense farming) > regional florescence (irrigation, cities) > cyclical conquests > (metals, trade)

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state evolution

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bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states

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pottery widespread in fertile crescent

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7000 BC

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Chatal Huyuk

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flourishes 6500 BC
one of first large cities
no doors

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mesoamerica chronology

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archaic 7000-2000 (bands to tribes)
early-mid formative 2000-400 (tribes to chiefdoms)
late formative 400-AD 250 (state formation)
classic 250-1000 (states)
postclassic 1000-1521 (empires)

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Eridu

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not a city, big town
grew over 2000 years
water god enki
extensive temple sequence
temples distribution centers for grains

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a city

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Size-pop in thousands
Packed density
Status differences
Economic specialization
Arts, ceremonialism
Goods, food distribution
Political structure, leadership
Hierarchy

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Octavius

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Julius Caesar's nephew, adopted

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august

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associated with Jupiter

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altar of peace

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built after military victory
surrounds himself with history

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Teotihuacan

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planned on a grid
pyramids of sun and moon
calle de los muertos
worship out of doors
canalized river to fit grid

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temple of quetzalcoatl

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decapitated warriors buried in 9 and 18
18 months of the year
9 layers of the underworld

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Teotihuacan style

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tripod pot, painted lime stucco
talud tablero architecture

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John Lloyd Stevens

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bought Copan for $50 in 1839

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Antonio del Rio

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said Palenque people related to Romans 1822

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Kunich Yax Kuk Mo

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founder of Copan
not from Teotihuacan, from a related city