One proposal to resolve this difficulty holds that the account of Ai's conquest in the Book of Joshua is not meant to be historical, but etiological ; that is, the writers of the Bible noted the presence of a great, impressive local ruin ( the remains of the Early Bronze city ) and sought to explain this destruction in terms of a legendary ancestor.

The maker of these taxis, which Geely holds part ownership of and a joint venture with, Manganese Bronze, says it has held talks with UK government officials about this and has signed a research and development agreement with Tanfield Group.

Caltanissetta is also home to the Museo Archeologico, which holds displays from mostly prehistoric times and include finds from digs conducted in the 1950s, including vases and tools from the Bronze Age and early Sicilian ceramics.

Situated on the River Rhondda Fawr where the river changes direction from south-east to southerly, Llwynypia holds evidence of human habitation from the Bronze Age through to modern times.

The current view in the Netherlands holds that subsequent Iron Age innovations did not involve substantial Celtic intrusions and featured a local development from Bronze Age culture.

A Bronze Age society is usually reconstructed from PIE vocabulary, but it is unclear whether this necessarily holds for inherited vocabulary in Anatolian.

Weinheim's town museum occupies what used to be the headquarters of the Teutonic Order in the town and holds exhibits about Weinheim and its surroundings: archaeology from the prehistoric through to the Merovingian dynasty, the highlight of which is the so-called " Nächstenbacher Bronze-find " of 76 objects from the late Bronze Age ; displays documenting the Medieval and modern social history of the town and works from contemporary artists.

Jamie also holds two world relay medals running the anchor leg for Great Britain in 2003 to take Bronze ( with Dan Marsden and Jon Duncan ) and Gold in 2008 with Graham Gristwood and Jon Duncan.

Bronze was an important element in ceremonies and as for mortuary offerings until 100.

Cities such as Hamoukar and Emar played an important role during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Mesopotamian Shamash plays an important role during the Bronze Age, and " my Sun " is eventually used as an address to royalty.

Pottery shards found at the important site of Jarlshof also indicate that there was Neolithic activity there although the main settlement dates from the Bronze Age.

Several important trade routes from India and China ( including the Silk Road ) passed through Bactria and, as early as the Bronze Age, this had allowed the accumulation of vast amounts of wealth by the mostly nomadic population.

Bronze production began in the Middle Mumun and became increasingly important in ceremonial and political society after 700 BC.

Anne Killebrew has shown that cities such as Jerusalem were large and important walled settlements in the ' Pre-Israelite ' Middle Bronze IIB and the Israelite Iron Age IIC period ( ca.

Scholars have dated it to some time in the 15th century BC and believe that it illustrates an important concept expressed in Nordic Bronze Age mythology.

The Museum of Prehistory Zug houses an important collection of archaeological remains, especially from the late Bronze Age ( urnfield culture ) settlement of Zug-Sumpf.

The site of Liman Tepe, which lies near an old harbour contains very important Bronze Age excavations, the most prominent and remarkable of which is the amount of varying archaic burial sites, as well as evidence of the practises associated with them close by.

Other important debates consider the role of Knossos in the administration of Bronze Age Crete, and whether Knossos acted as the primary center, or was on equal footing with the several other contemporaneous palaces that have been discovered on Crete.

Particularly in the Bronze Age Mediterranean Lead Isotope Analysis has been a useful tool for determining the sources of metals and an important indicator of trade patterns.

The bay is the site of an important Bronze Age settlement which was unearthed by archaeologists in the 1970s.

At the Bronze Age site of Phylakopi ( Greek Φυλακωπή ), the chief settlement, on the north-east coast, excavations by the British School of Archeology revealed a town wall and a Minoan palace with some important and very interesting wall paintings.

Luwian has numerous archaisms, and so is important both to Indo-European linguists and to students of the Bronze Age Aegean.

Bronze was an important advance because it had the edge-durability and stiffness that pure copper lacked.

The most important archaeological locality in the municipality is Bronze Age Gomolava near Hrtkovci, with two exclusive tombs of Bosut culture dating to 9th century BC and 3000BC Vučedol culture pottery.

On the area of later Devín caste one finds important clues to final period of Bronze Age ( Podoli Culture ), when a fortified settlement arose on the strategic place: rock-cliff over river Morava joining river Danube.

On the hillside below the castle and the town archaeological digs have revealed the remains of an important population of the El Argar culture during the Bronze Age.

Archaeological excavations have shown the site of Lamia to have been inhabited since at least the Bronze Age ( 3rd millennium BC ), but the city was first mentioned after the earthquake of 424 BC, when it was an important Spartan military base.

The city became one of the most important centres in the Hittite Empire, during the Late Bronze Age, and reached its apogee around the 11th century BC.

While the Hittite empire fell to the Sea Peoples during the Bronze Age collapse, Carchemish survived the Sea People's attacks to continue to be the capital of an important Neo-Hittite kingdom in the Iron Age, and a trading center.

Arguably it is the Bronze ( 2, 500BC-750BC ) and Iron ( 750BC-43AD ) Ages which make Thatcham more notable than any other, and indeed makes Thatcham a nationally important place.

" In Bronze Age Crete, an inscription da-da-re-jo-de has been read as referring to a place at Knossos, and a place of worship.

In place of less easily available tin, arsenic was added to copper in the Bronze Age to harden it ; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired Lewis Carroll's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would have suffered from chronic poisoning as a result of their livelihood.

The team finished in fourth place losing the Bronze medal to Israel on tie-break.

While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.

and age and place of origin on the other ( Bronze Age, Iron Age, European ( medieval, early modern, modern ), Asian ).

Until recently it was assumed that Sardis was only settled in the period after the Anatolian and Aegean Dark Age, but American excavations have shown the place was settled in the Bronze Age and was a site of a significant population.

It was a walled city in the Bronze Age and, according to tradition, it is the place where King David built his palace and established his capital.

The origin of Miranda do Douro as a populated place is still discussed by historians but the archeological discovers give evidence of a inhabitants been libing during the Bronze Age.

There is then a gap in the archaeological record until the end of the Bronze Age c 1100 BC, when the first burials took place at the large cemetery of Kastri in the interior of the island.

It is believed that if the story of Branwen is based on real events, these must have taken place during the Bedd Branwen Period of Bronze Age British history.

In 2009, the Virginia Department of Health awarded the Town with a Bronze Water Performance Award ( 3rd place in the State of Virginia ) for excellence in granular media filtration.

Most of their performances took place at The Bronze, Sunnydale's local nightclub.

The name of the river Saale also contains the Germanic root for salt, and salt-harvesting has taken place in Halle since at least since the Bronze Age ( 2300-600 BC ).

A previously unknown Late Bronze Age place name among the Lukka.

The area around Dunfermline became home to the first settlers in the Neolithic period, but did not gain recognition until the Bronze Age as a place of importance.

The resulting determinations have been analysed using the Bayesian statistic OxCal 4. 0, and the results reveal that the initial settlement of Ban Chiang took place by Neolithic rice farmers in about 1500 BC, with the transition to the Bronze Age in about 1000 BC.

The earliest period of classical antiquity takes place before the background of gradual re-appearance of historical sources following the Bronze Age collapse.

The construction of these structures took place mainly in the Neolithic ( though earlier Mesolithic examples are known ) and continued into the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

Both Asko Parpola ( 1988 ) and J. P. Mallory ( 1998 ) place the locus of the division of Indo-Aryan from Iranian in the Bronze Age BMAC culture.

During the Bronze Age ( 3000 – 1300 BC ), semi-nomadic tribes inhabited the region ; they shifted in groups from place to place foraging for timber from the indigenous acacia for smelting copper.