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90 relations: Alexander Thom, Alnwick, Archaeology, Argyll, Atlantic Bronze Age, Atlantic Europe, Atlit Yam, Australia, Baildon, Ballochmyle cup and ring marks, BBC, Beauly, Boho, County Fermanagh, Borgue, Dumfries and Galloway, British Isles, Brodick, Bronze Age, Bullaun, Cairn, Canaan, Chalcolithic, Cist, Clava cairn, Cleveland, England, Coping (architecture), County Kerry, County Monaghan, Culloden, Highland, Cupstone, Dalgarven Mill – Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume, Derbyshire, Dolmen, East Ayrshire, Fertile Crescent, Finland, Food Vessel, Gabon, Galicia (Spain), Gardom's Edge, Gezer, Goldbusch, Great Dolmen of Dwasieden, Greece, Haifa, Hartola, Finland, Hawaii, Hunterheugh Crags, Iberian Peninsula, India, Inverness, ..., Iron Age, Isle of Arran, Israel, Italy, Iveragh Peninsula, Kilmartin, Kilmartin Glen, Kilpatrick Hills, Kincardineshire, Lancashire, Larissa, Long barrow, Mauchline, Megalith, Megalithic art, Megalithic Yard, Mexico, Milngavie, Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Mozambique, Neolithic, Newgrange, Northumberland, Passage grave, Petroglyph, Petrosomatoglyph, Piedmont, Prehistoric art, Redcar and Cleveland, Reyfad, Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, Rujm el-Hiri, Stan Beckensall, Stone circle, Stratigraphy, Susa Valley, Television, Tumulus, Val Camonica, Weetwood Moor. Expand index (40 more) »
Alexander Thom
Alexander "Sandy" Thom (26 March 1894 – 7 November 1985) was a Scottish engineer most famous for his theory of the Megalithic yard, categorisation of stone circles and his studies of Stonehenge and other archaeological sites.
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Alnwick
Alnwick is a market town in north Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Argyll
Argyll (archaically Argyle, Earra-Ghàidheal in modern Gaelic), sometimes anglicised as Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.
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Atlantic Bronze Age
The Atlantic Bronze Age is a cultural complex of the Bronze Age period of approximately 1300–700 BC that includes different cultures in Portugal, Andalusia, Galicia, France, Britain and Ireland.
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Atlantic Europe
Atlantic Europe is a geographical and anthropological term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlit Yam
Atlit Yam is an ancient submerged Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit, Israel.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Baildon
Baildon is a civil parish and town in Northern England.
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Ballochmyle cup and ring marks
The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle (NS 5107 2552), Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff face, forming one of the most extensive areas of such carvings as yet found in Britain.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Beauly
Beauly (A' Mhanachainn) is a town in the Kilmorack Parish of the Scottish County of Inverness, on the River Beauly, west of Inverness by the Far North railway line.
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Boho, County Fermanagh
Boho (pronounced) is a hamlet and a civil parish covering approximately southwest of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
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Borgue, Dumfries and Galloway
Borgue (pronounced) is a village and parish in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
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British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.
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Brodick
Brodick (Tràigh a' Chaisteil ("Castle Beach") or Breadhaig) is the main town on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Bullaun
A bullaun (bullán; from a word cognate with "bowl" and French bol) is the term used for the depression in a stone which is often water filled.
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Cairn
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones.
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Canaan
Canaan (Northwest Semitic:; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 Kenā‘an; Hebrew) was a Semitic-speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.
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Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), p. 301: "Chalcolithic /,kælkəl'lɪθɪk/ adjective Archaeology of, relating to, or denoting a period in the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE, chiefly in the Near East and SE Europe, during which some weapons and tools were made of copper. This period was still largely Neolithic in character. Also called Eneolithic... Also called Copper Age - Origin early 20th cent.: from Greek khalkos 'copper' + lithos 'stone' + -ic". χαλκός khalkós, "copper" and λίθος líthos, "stone") period or Copper Age, in particular for eastern Europe often named Eneolithic or Æneolithic (from Latin aeneus "of copper"), was a period in the development of human technology, before it was discovered that adding tin to copper formed the harder bronze, leading to the Bronze Age.
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Cist
A cist (or; also kist; from κίστη or Germanic Kiste) is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.
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Clava cairn
The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland.
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Cleveland, England
Cleveland is an area in the north-east of England.
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Coping (architecture)
Coping (from cope, Latin capa) consists of the capping or covering of a wall.
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County Kerry
County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland.
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County Monaghan
County Monaghan (Contae Mhuineacháin) is a county in Ireland.
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Culloden, Highland
Culloden (from Scottish Gaelic Cùl Lodain, "back of the small pond"; modern Gaelic Cùil Lodair) is the name of a village east of Inverness, Scotland and the surrounding area.
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Cupstone
Variously known as cupstones, "anvil stones," "pitted cobbles" and "nutting stones," among other names, these roughly discoidal or amorphous groundstone artifacts are among the most common lithic remains of Native American culture, especially in the Midwest, in Early Archaic contexts.
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Dalgarven Mill – Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume
Dalgarven Mill is near Kilwinning, in the Garnock Valley, North Ayrshire, Scotland and it is home to the Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume. The watermill has been completely restored over a number of years and is run by the independent Dalgarven Mill Trust. The village of Dalgarven was largely destroyed by the construction of the main A737 road, but the mill buildings survive and are open as a tourist attraction and educational resource, interpreting local history in addition to its role as a museum of Ayrshire country life.
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Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.
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Dolmen
A dolmen is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".
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East Ayrshire
East Ayrshire (Aest Ayrshire, Siorrachd Àir an Ear) is one of thirty-two council areas of Scotland.
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Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent (also known as the "cradle of civilization") is a crescent-shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers.
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Finland
Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.
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Food Vessel
Food vessels are an Early Bronze Age, c. 2400-1500BC (Needham 1996), pottery type.
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Gabon
Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa.
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galician: Galicia, Galiza; Galicia; Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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Gardom's Edge
Gardom's Edge is a rocky outcrop near Baslow in Derbyshire, England.
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Gezer
Gezer, or Tel Gezer (גֶּזֶר)(also Tell el-Jezer) is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shfela region roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
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Goldbusch
The Goldbusch is a great dolmen (Großdolmen), a type prehistoric grave site, that lies between Altensien and Moritzdorf on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen.
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Great Dolmen of Dwasieden
The Great dolmen of Dwasieden (Großdolmen von Dwasieden), is a great dolmen in the borough of Sassnitz, on the Jasmund peninsula of Germany's largest island, Rügen.
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Greece
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Haifa
Haifa (חֵיפָה; حيفا) is the third-largest city in Israel – after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv– with a population of in.
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Hartola, Finland
Hartola (Swedish: Gustav Adolfs) is a municipality of Finland.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Hunterheugh Crags
Hunterheugh Crags are part of the Fellsandstone escarpment, north west of Alnwick, Northumberland, England and from the coast.
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Inverness
Inverness (from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness", Inerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Isle of Arran
Arran (Eilean Arainn) or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh largest Scottish island, at.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Iveragh Peninsula
The Iveragh Peninsula is located in County Kerry in Ireland.
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Kilmartin
Kilmartin (Cille Mhàrtainn) is a small village in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland.
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Kilmartin Glen
Kilmartin Glen is an area in Argyll not far from Kintyre, which has the most important concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in mainland Scotland.
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Kilpatrick Hills
The Kilpatrick Hills are a range of hills in central Scotland, stretching from Dumbarton in the west to Strathblane in the east.
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Kincardineshire
Kincardineshire, also known as the Mearns (from A' Mhaoirne meaning "the Stewartry"), is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area on the coast of northeast Scotland.
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Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.
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Larissa
Larissa (Λάρισα) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region, the fourth-most populous in Greece according to the population results of municipal units of 2011 census and capital of the Larissa regional unit.
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Long barrow
A long barrow is a rectangular or trapezoidal tumulus; that is, a prehistoric mound of earth and stones built over a grave or group of graves.
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Mauchline
Mauchline (Maghlinn) is a town and civil parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.
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Megalithic art
Megalithic art refers to the use of large stones as an artistic medium.
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Megalithic Yard
A Megalithic Yard (MY) is a unit of measurement of about, that some researchers believe was used in the construction of megalithic structures.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Milngavie
Milngavie (Mulguye, Muileann-Gaidh) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut
Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut (מוֹדִיעִין-מַכַּבִּים-רֵעוּת) is an Israeli city located in central Israel, about southeast of Tel Aviv and west of Jerusalem, and is connected to those two cities via Highway 443.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique or República de Moçambique) is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.
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Newgrange
Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú or Brú na Bóinne) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, located west of Drogheda on the north side of the River Boyne.
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Northumberland
Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.
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Passage grave
A simple passage tomb in Carrowmore near Sligo in Ireland A passage grave (sometimes hyphenated) or passage tomb consists of a narrow passage made of large stones and one or multiple burial chambers covered in earth or stone.
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Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
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Petrosomatoglyph
A petrosomatoglyph is a supposed image of parts of a human or animal body in rock.
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Piedmont
Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piedmontese, Occitan and Piemont; Piémont) is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country.
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Prehistoric art
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
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Redcar and Cleveland
The borough of Redcar & Cleveland is a unitary authority area of North Yorkshire in the North East of England, consisting of Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, and small towns such as Brotton, Eston, Skelton and Loftus.
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Reyfad
Reyfad is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
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Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
The stone carvings of Val Camonica (Camonica Valley) are located in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and constitute the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world.
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Rujm el-Hiri
Rujm el-Hiri (رجم الهري, Rujm al-Hīrī; גִּלְגַּל רְפָאִים Gilgal Refā'īm or Rogem Hiri) is an ancient megalithic monument consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus at center.
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Stan Beckensall
Stan Beckensall is an international rock art expert.
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Stone circle
A stone circle is an alignment of standing stones arranged in a circle.
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Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).
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Susa Valley
The Susa Valley (Val di Susa, Val de Suse, Val d'Ors) is a valley in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region of northern Italy, located between the Graian Alps in the north and the Cottian Alps in the south.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Tumulus
A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
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Val Camonica
Val Camonica (also Valcamonica or Camonica Valley, local dialect: Al Camònega) is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy.
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Weetwood Moor
Weetwood Moor near Wooler, Northumberland is a moor in the North of England which contains a scheduled ancient monument.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_and_ring_mark
