Archeologists had previously established a relative chronology (one whose dates are relative to one another, rather than absolute)based on the evolution of pottery styles typically found at funerary ...

A recent archaeological study challenges conventional notions about the origin of the Protogeometric ceramic style in Greece, suggesting that its starting point was not Athens, as traditionally ...

Jerusalem has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years, serving as both a center of religious significance and a seat of power for kingdoms, yet despite the vast number of historical texts ...

Papers from a conference held Nov. 3-5, 2006 at Cornell University. Contents Bibliography of Peter Ian Kuniholm -- Peter Kuniholm's dendro time / Fritz H. Schweingruber -- Perspective : archaeology, ...

Mummification in ancient Egypt was at its height when Ramses II (above) reigned during the second millennium B.C., but the practice was established 3,000 years earlier. Patrick Landmann/Photo ...

AT the request of the editor of Antiquity, Mr. Miles C. Burkitt and Prof. V. Gordon Childe have prepared a chronological table of prehistory, which is published in the June number of that periodical.