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The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron-Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.

As with prehistory, determining when a culture may be considered prehistoric or protohistoric is sometimes difficult for the archaeologist.

He succeeded in crossing the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados after a two-month voyage of 6, 100 km with Ra II in 1970, thus conclusively proving that boats such as the Ra could have sailed with the Canary Current across the Atlantic in prehistoric times.

Aleut basketry is some of the finest in the world, and the tradition began in prehistoric times. The main method of basketry used by the Aleuts was false embroidery ( overlay ).

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

Lime as building material was used since prehistoric times going as far back as 7000 to 14000 BC.

Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9, 000 year old Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300 BC.

According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaia.

Dice are hard to differentiate from knucklebones because ancient writers confused the two, but both were used in prehistoric times.

Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of Ptolemy ( the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer ) in about 140 AD provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there.

In prehistoric times, great amounts of sediment collected on the floor of Lake Amora.

Sketches and paintings have been produced since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by cave and rock paintings.

** Shahnameh ( Persian literature ; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the Sassanid Empire )

In prehistoric times, there was a third subfamily known as Machairodontinae, which included the " saber-toothed cats " such as the well known Smilodon.

In prehistoric times, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty.

Forest gardens originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon regions.

Modern humans apparently visited the Gibraltar area in prehistoric times after the Neanderthal occupancy.

The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding.

However, when and where the ancestors of the Goths assigned this name to themselves and whether they used it in Indo-European or proto-Germanic times remain unsolved questions of historical linguistics and prehistoric archaeology.

The area of the later city of Gdynia shared its history with Pomerelia ( Eastern Pomerania ); in prehistoric times it was the center of Oksywie culture ; it was later populated by Slavs with some Baltic Prussian influences.

History of Europe covers the people inhabiting the European continent since it was first populated in prehistoric times to present, with the first Homo sapiens arriving between 45, 000 and 25, 000 BC.

Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration.

Replicas of real things in a smaller scale go back to prehistoric times, as small clay " dolls " and other children's toys have been found near known population areas.

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times ; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the earliest discoveries to the more recent.

The arrival of the Hittites in Anatolia in prehistoric times was one of a superstrate imposing itself on a native culture, either by means of

The earliest known Indian paintings ( see section below ) were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, ( see above ) and some of them are older than 5500 BC.

Since prehistoric times, long before the concept of national borders existed, the Sami people of Arctic Europe lived and worked in an area that stretches over the regions now known as Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula.

Due to the practice, dating to at least the early Neolithic, of building in stone on virtually treeless islands, Shetland is extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric eras and there are over 5, 000 archaeological sites all told.

Remains of human habitation have been found from the prehistoric, Roman and Saxon eras, showing that humans retreated towards progressively higher ground over these periods.

As the domestication of pack animals and the development of shipping technology both increased the capacity for prehistoric peoples to carry heavier loads over greater distances, cultural exchanges and trade developed rapidly.

* 1976 — Alex Shlyakhter uses samarium ratios from the Oklo prehistoric natural nuclear fission reactor in Gabon to show that some laws of physics have remained unchanged for over two billion years

The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for over 3, 000 years, and is thought to be the world's fastest field team game in terms of game play.

The statement further describes that there is genetic evidence that the Native American Indians are closely related to peoples of Asia, and that archeological evidence indicates that the Native Americans migrated from Asia over a land bridge over the Bering Strait in prehistoric times.

In the wider region of the Varna lakes ( before the 1900s, freshwater ) and the adjacent karst springs and caves, over 30 prehistoric settlements have been unearthed with the earliest artifacts dating back to the Middle Paleolithic or 100, 000 years ago.

The first paintings of France are those that are from prehistoric times, painted in the caves of Lascaux well over 10, 000 years ago.

In prehistoric times, Native Americans would drive bison over the edge of the cliff, killing or severely injuring the animals.

Archeologists and anthropologists have since determined that many prehistoric Native American cultures in North America along the Mississippi River and its tributaries built massive earthworks for ceremonial, burial and religious purposes over a period of thousands of years prior to European encounter.

The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary hybrid culture, which combines influences from Asia, Europe, and North America.

The prehistoric artifacts date from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age and were excavated all over Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union and Russian Empire.

At Storhedder north of the lake Storheddervatnet prehistoric runic inscriptions dating over 1000 years old can be found.

It first began to be studied as a prehistoric monument by antiquarians in the seventeenth century AD, and over subsequent centuries various archaeological excavations took place at the site before it was largely restored to an interpretation of its original Neolithic appearance by conservators in the 1970s.

Archaeological evidence suggests that varieties of pancakes are probably the earliest and most widespread types of cereal food eaten in prehistoric societies whereby dry carbohydrate-rich seed flours mixed with the available protein-rich liquids, usually milk and eggs, were baked on hot stones or in shallow earthenware pots over an open fire to form a nutritious and highly palatable foodstuff.

The lakes were complete in 1963, covering over numerous historic and prehistoric sites of settlement.

Numerous historic and prehistoric sites were covered over by the lakes during the flooding of the reservoirs, including Oketeyconne, Georgia.

Approximately 400 prehistoric stone axes, known as Group 1 axes and made from greenstone, have been found all over Britain, which from petrological analysis appear to come from west Cornwall.

Similar in form to, and perhaps originating from, the drinking horn, it has been widespread over Eurasia since prehistoric times.

A prehistoric species is known only from fossil remains found in Middle to Late Pleistocene sites all over the central and eastern Mediterranean: Gyps melitensis.

Aulopiformes is an order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families with about 45 genera and over 230 species.

Shetland is also extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric eras and there are over 5, 000 archaeological sites all told.