It contained the winter solstice in the Early Bronze Age.

A special burial ground for infants, a tophetAgelarakis A., “ The Amathous ( tophet ) cremations in Cyprus ”, In D. Christou on “ Human Cremations at the Western Necropolis of Amathous ” < Cremations in Bronze and Early Iron Age >, Proceedings of Int.

Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.

* Viking Bronze – Ancient and Early Medieval bronze casting

The numerous Sumerian names in these catalogues suggest that they build on older, but otherwise unattested, Sumerian traditions of the Early Bronze Age.

The constellation was a symbol of the god Ea and in the Early Bronze Age marked the winter solstice.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

* Barclay, Gordon ( 2005 ) Farmers, Temples and Tombs: Scotland in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

He did not include this transitional period in the tripartite system of Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age but placed it at the beginning outside of it.

The Copper Age in the Middle East and the Caucasus began in the late 5th millennium BC and lasted for about a millennium before it gave rise to the Early Bronze Age.

In ancient Greece, Tjeered van Andel and co-writers summarized three regional studies of historic erosion and alluviation and found that, wherever adequate evidence exists, a major phase of erosion follows, by about 500-1, 000 years the introduction of farming in the various regions of Greece, ranging from the later Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.

Pottery uncovered in these structures allowed the attribution of the monuments to the Tarxien cemetery culture of the Early Bronze Age.

Other theories have proposed an even more substantial input in the Early Bronze Age than was previously thought.

" King Priam's Treasure " was found in the Troy II level, that of the primitive Early Bronze Age, long before Priam's city of Troy VI or Troy VIIa in the prosperous and elaborate Mycenaean Age.

The elaborate gold artifacts do not appear to belong to the Early Bronze Age.

* Uruk period: 4100 – 2900 BC ( Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age I )

* Early Dynastic period ( Early Bronze Age II-IV )

* Gutian period: c. 2218 – 2047 BC ( Early Bronze Age IV )

Her excavation of the Early Bronze Age walled city and the external cemeteries of the end of the Early Bronze Age, together with her analysis of the stratified pottery of these periods established her as the leading authority on that period.

Acts tells the story of the Apostolic Age of the Early Christian church, with particular emphasis on the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of Tarsus.

However, despite earlier concepts of a strict Early Historic evolution, Irish excavations are increasingly uncovering examples which date to the ' missing ' Iron Age in Ireland.

The Paleolithic is subdivided into the Lower Paleolithic ( Early Stone Age, ending around 350, 000 – 300, 000 years ago ), the Middle Paleolithic ( Middle Stone Age, until 50, 000 – 30, 000 years ago ), and the Upper Paleolithic.

* Burkert, Walter, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 1998

But the standard model holds the arrival of Indo-Aryans to have been in the Late Harappan which gave rise to the Vedic civilization of the Early Iron Age.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Early hunter-gatherer tribes made stone weapons from around 10, 000 years ago ; as the age of metallurgy dawned, newer technologies were used and more efficient weapons produced.

Early European American scholars described the Native Americans as having a society dominated by clans or gentes ( in the Roman model ) before tribes were formed.

The vast majority of the human population of Scandinavia are Scandinavians, descended from several ( North ) Germanic tribes who originally inhabited the southern part of Scandinavia and what is now northern Germany, who spoke a Germanic language that evolved into Old Norse and who were known as Norsemen in the Early Middle Ages.

Early tribes were nomadic or semi-nomadic due to the arid conditions of the region as the steppe culture in Central Asia was an extension of a larger Eurasian series of horse cultures which spanned the entire spectrum of language families including the Indo-Europeans and Turko-Mongol groups.

In the Early Middle Ages, Slavic tribes are believed to have settled in the region, though the extent of such settlement is unclear.

Early East Slavic tribes c. 8th century A. D.

During the Early Bronze Age ( 3200-1950 BC ), many villages were built that included defensive fortifications, most likely to protect against marauding nomadic tribes.

In Europe during the Early Middle Ages, the term began to be used to describe Arab tribes.

The city was razed by Slavic tribes during the Migration period of the 5th and 6th centuries, but was rebuilt in the Early Middle Ages.

Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. alt = Map of Wales showing the names of Celtic British tribes in their territoriesBy 4000 BP people had begun to bury, or cremate their dead in individual cists, beneath a mound of earth known as a round barrow ; sometimes with a distinctive style of finely decorated pottery – like those at Llanharry ( discovered 1929 ) and at Llandaff ( 1991 ) – that gave rise to the Early Bronze Age being described as Beaker culture.

Early infanticidal childrearing is a term used in the study of psychohistory that refers to infanticide in paleolithic, pre-historical, and historical hunter-gatherer tribes or societies.

Early ancestors of the Russians were East Slavic tribes migrating to the East European Plain in the early Middle Ages.

Early tribes included Suma-Jumano, Comanche, Cheyenne and Kiowa.

Early seasons tended to feature tribes whose members included, in roughly equal numbers, all ages and both genders.

Early white settlers during that time were primarily serving as missionaries to the tribes.

Early settlers to the region were hunter-gather tribes similar to those in North Alabama.

Early settlers in the area encountered Native American Indians of the Illini and Peoria tribes who were, for the most part, friendly.

Early on Tyngsborough residents fought a series of small and bloody skirmishes with local Native American tribes.

Early French Canadian settlers often married women from the local tribes, which included the Clackamas, Molala and Kalapuya.

Early inhabitants of the area were the Twana, inhabiting the length of the Hood Canal, and rarely invading other tribes.

In the transitional period to the Early Iron Age, Mitanni was settled by invading Semitic Aramaean tribes.

Early in the history of the Roman Republic, a foederatus identified one of the tribes bound by treaty ( foedus ), who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship ( civitas ) but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose, thus were allies.

Early in the religious movement, many tribes sent members to investigate the self-proclaimed prophet, while other communities sent delegates only to be cordial.

Early Irish tribes formed the Kingdom of Uí Cheinnsealaig, an area that was slightly larger than the current County Wexford.