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January 10, 1002
One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, Avebury contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
January 03, 1002
Inhabited as early as 9000 BCE, Baalbek grew into an important pilgrimage site in the ancient world for the worship of the Phoenician sky-god Baal and his consort Astarte, the Queen of Heaven.
January 01, 1002
The Pama–Nyungan languages are now the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing perhaps 300 languages.
January 01, 1002
Several archaeological sites have been discovered in Beirut, revealing flint tools of sequential periods dating from the Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Paleolithic through the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
January 01, 1002
Consisting of eight clustered houses, it was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC. Europe's most complete Neolithic village, Skara Brae gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
January 01, 1002
The Longshan also sometimes referred to as the Black Pottery Culture, was a late Neolithic culture in the middle and lower Yellow River valley areas of northern China from about 3000 to 1900 BC.
January 01, 1002
A polished bone implement found at Eva in Tennessee, United States and dated to around 5000 BCE has been construed as a possible sporting device used in a "ring and pin" game.
January 01, 1002
The history of the domestication of cotton is very complex and is not known exactly.
January 01, 1002
For at least 5,000 years before Christopher Columbus discovered America for the Europeans, the island, which he named Hispaniola, was inhabited by indigenous peoples whom he called "Indians."
January 01, 1002
The first recorded exchange of a dowry occurs in 3,000 BCE.
January 01, 1002
These permanent designssometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personalhave served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment.
January 01, 1002
Stonehenge is perhaps the world's most famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago.
December 31, 1001
At least 130 million domestic water buffalo exist, and more people depend on them than on any other domestic animal.
December 28, 1001
Antigua was first settled by archaic age hunter-gatherer Amerindians called the Ciboney. Carbon dating has established the earliest settlements started around 3100 BC.
December 28, 1001
The oldest known Cuban archeological site, Levisa , dates from approximately 3100 BC.
