The stone heads have been ascribed to the Pre-Olmec Monte Alto Culture and some scholars suggest the Olmec Culture originated in the Monte Alto area.

Influenced by the German tradition, Boas argued that the world was full of distinct cultures, rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little " civilization " they had.

The nature of atoms in philosophy varied considerably over time and between cultures and schools, and often had spiritual elements.

Disputes that had been confined to the Church of England could be dealt with legislatively in that realm, but as the Communion spread out into new nations and disparate cultures, such controversies multiplied and intensified.

Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.

According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt ( hieroglyphs ), the Near East ( cuneiform )— and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture ( Linear B )— had viable writing systems.

Ancient cultures had no conception of computing beyond simple arithmetic.

Cetus may have originally been associated with a whale, which would have had mythic status amongst Mesopotamian cultures.

All had major effects on Jewish cultures.

However, Pfeiffer had little vision for what the combined companies should do, or indeed how the three dramatically different cultures could work as a single entity, and Compaq struggled as a result of a strategy that had the company caught in between the low end and high end.

Yet, when a distinction is made, Epipaleolithic is used for those cultures that were not much affected by the ending of the Ice Age ( like the Natufian and Khiamian cultures of Western Asia ) and the term Mesolithic is reserved for Western Europe where the extinction of the Megafauna had a great impact on the Paleolithic populations at the end of the Ice Age ( like European post-glacial cultures: Azilian, Sauveterrian, Tardenoisian, Maglemosian, etc.

As human culture advanced, different populations of humans introduced novelty to existing technologies: artifacts such as fish hooks, buttons and bone needles show signs of variation among different populations of humans, something that had not been seen in human cultures prior to 50, 000 BP.

The traditional cultures that did not rely upon written music or had less social stratification could not be readily categorized.

By the early twentieth century, the word " fart " had come to be considered rather vulgar in most English-speaking cultures.

Semen ingestion has also had central importance in some cultures around the world.

It is possible the tradition was carried on by the local community after the travellers had left, or that long term trade led to the blurring of cultures.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

By this point the coastal trading cultures were thoroughly dominant over the inland river valleys that had once been the heart of the great powers.

The most commonly held view is that concept of human rights evolved in the West, and that while earlier cultures had important ethical concepts, they generally lacked a concept of human rights.

Some cultures believed honey had many practical health uses.

Most cultures have at some point had a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewellery.

Another author states that it is likely both blacks and whites in the antebellum south accepted jumping the broom as a quasi-marriage ceremony since the practice or symbols used in it ( specifically the broom ) had similar meanings in their respective cultures.

Women in many cultures throughout history have had sexual relations with other women, but they rarely were designated as part of a group of people based on who they had physical relations with.

Civilization developed and flourished during the Pre – Columbian era with little contact among the cultures external to Mesoamerica.

During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.

Coastal cultures such as the Moche and Nazca flourished from about 100 BC to about AD 700: the Moche produced impressive metalwork, as well as some of the finest pottery seen in the ancient world, while the Nazca are known for their textiles and the enigmatic Nazca lines.

In South America, pre-Incan, coastal cultures flourished, producing impressive metalwork and some of the finest pottery seen in the ancient world.

Urban cultures in Mesopotamia and Anatolia flourished, developing the wheel.

Serbia flourished, becoming one of the most developed countries and cultures in Europe.

The Serbian Empire flourished, becoming one of the most developed countries and cultures in Europe.

Some cultures, notably the Maya civilization, independently developed writing during the time they flourished, which was then later lost.

Serbia flourished, becoming one of the most developed countries and cultures in Europe.

Each of these cultures rose, flourished, and was then conquered by a more militarily developed culture.

The Andronovo culture is a collection of similar local Bronze Age cultures that flourished ca.

Court cultures flourished in ancient times, for example, the Sunda Kingdom, however, the Sundanese appear not to have had the resources nor desire to construct large religious monuments similar to those in Central and East Java.

A number of urban cultures flourished here, including the Moche.

The town, situated on the border of the nomadic and settled cultures, flourished as the khanate's largest trade and craft center.

From the Proto-Celtic Urnfield and Hallstat cultures, a continental Iron age Celtic art developed ; mainly associated with La Tène culture, which flourished during the late Iron Age from 450 BC to the Roman conquest in the first century BC.

In relation to neighboring cultures, the Ancient Pueblo occupied the northeast quadrant of the area.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

These codes come from similar cultures in a relatively small geographical area, and they have passages which resemble each other.

Following the discovery of the islands by Columbus, the area was quickly colonised by several Western cultures ( initially Spain, then later Portugal, England, the Dutch Republic, France and Denmark ).

The ascription of Indus Valley Civilization iconography and epigraphy to historically known cultures is extremely problematic, in part due to the rather tenuous archaeological evidence of such claims, as well as the projection of modern South Asian political concerns onto the archaeological record of the area.

Starting about that time, people migrated to the area of Finland from the Kunda and-possibly-Swiderian cultures, and they are believed to be ancestors of today's Finnish and Sami people in Finland.

The area of Indonesia is populated by peoples of various migrations, creating a diversity of cultures, ethnicities, and languages.

While relatively few parchments ( or codices ) of the Mixtec and Aztec cultures of the Post-Classic period survive, progress has been made in the area of Maya archaeology and epigraphy.

Hillside vegetation is limited to scrub forest and the area functions as a deserted buffer zone allowing the development of distinctive cultures in valleys and hills further north.

Simplification of cultures and time periods by eliminating detailed data remain vulnerable or flimsy in this area of research.

The area of current day Angola was inhabited during the paleolithic and neolithic eras, as attested by remains found in Luanda, Congo and the Namibe desert, eventually, at the beginning of recorded history other cultures and people also arrived.

* c. 8000 BC — Plano cultures inhabit the Great Plains area of North America ( from 9th millennium )

Notable among the prehistoric cultures of the area is the Capsian culture, whose shell-mounds are found throughout the north.

Swastikas have also been found on pottery in archaeological digs in Africa, in the area of Kush and on pottery at the Jebel Barkal temples, in Iron Age designs of the northern Caucasus ( Koban culture ), and in Neolithic China in the Majiabang, Dawenkou and Xiaoheyan cultures.

There were earlier and later cultures, often called Early Harappan and Late Harappan, in the same area of the Harappan Civilization.

In addition to the Ancestral Puebloans, a number of distinct cultures have inhabited the Grand Canyon area.

The Paiute Indians moved into the surrounding valleys and plateaus in the area around the same time that the other cultures left.

Since then, the Białystok area has been at the crossroads of cultures.

Their cultures are connected to the natural resources abundant in the area.

According to the Pope Gregory I's letters, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area ( that of the provinciales ) with, in the interior, pagan or semi-pagan cultures ( Gens Barbaricina ).

Scattered archaeological evidence indicates three different aboriginal cultures hunted the area beginning about 1500 A. D.

Varying cultures of indigenous peoples lived in the area for thousands of years.

This area had been settled by varying cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years before European contact.

The area had been inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous peoples of varying cultures.

# The name came from a word meaning " Land of the Euchee ," from the Euchee Indians who migrated into the area after the Timucua Indian cultures faded away in the early 1700s.