Archaeology 1A - Sites and Artefacts

Key sites and artefacts in Archaeology 1A

Venus of Brassempouy, 25 ka

Tomb of Tutankhamun

Burnt Neolithic cereal grains

Oldowan stone chopper

Pazyryk, Khazakstan, permafrost preservation

Mars Swedish shipwreck

Otzi

Must farm, late bronze age village, England

Tollund man, Denmark, 4th century BCE

Prince of Arene Candide, Italy

Block lift recovery of Iron age graves, Germany

Gebel Silsila, Egypt

Tell Brak, Syria

Chephren’s Quarry, Egypt

Woden law fort, Scotland

Magnetometry

Tell el-Hesi

Maiden castle, Iron age hillfort, Dorset, England

Surveying, differential global positioning system

Rosetta stone, Egypt

Mask of Agamemnon, Mycenae

Cradle of Humankind, Johannesburg, South Africa

Laetoli, Tanzania, Australopithecus afarensis

Olduwan toolkit

Living site at Olduvai

Olduvai gorge

Butchering site at Olduavi

Neanderthal skull, Sierra de Atapuerca, world’s oldest murder

Partial jaw and cheekbone of a Homo erectus at Sima del Elefante

Footprints at Happisburgh, Norfolk in England, Homo antecessor

Atlatl, spear thrower

Chauvet cave 1

Chauvet cave 2

La madeline

Lion man, Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, Germany

Venus of Willendorf

Dolni Vestonice, Italy

Lascaux cave 1

El castillo, Spain

Lascaux cave 2

Textile worker from Kilkenny Union workhouse, Ireland

Lovers of valdaro, Italy, Neolithic

Eric the Holy

Nariokotome boy, Homo erectus/Homo ergaster, found in Kenya

Sahelanthropus

Orrorin

Ardipithecus

Australopithecus afarensis

Paranthropus robustus

Paranthropus boisei

Homo habilis

Homo rudolfensis

Homo erectus 1

Homo erectus 2

Homo erectus/Homo ergaster

Dmanisi

Homo antecessor 1

Homo antecessor 2

Homo neanderthalensis 1

Homo neanderthalensis 2

Star Carr, oldest Mesolithic site in England

Headdress, Star Carr

Accessories, Star Carr

Axe, Star Carr

Lepenski Vir 1

Lepenski Vir 2

Skateholm

Vedbæk-Bøgebakken

Vedbæk

Lepenski Vir burial

Gobekli Tepe

Çayönü Tepsi, skull building

Varna Necropolis, Balkans