As with all other branches of archaeology it evolved from its roots in pre-history and in the classical era to include sites from the historical and industrial eras.

In archaeology and pre-history, the term oppida refers to a category of settlement ; it was first used in this sense by Reinecke, Dechelette and Dehn in reference to Bibracte, Manching, and Závist.

The book attempted to undermine both the Biblical archaeology school of William F. Albright, who had argued over the previous fifty years that the archaeological record confirmed the essential truth of the history contained in Genesis, and the " tradition history " school of Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth, which argued that Genesis contained a core of valid social pre-history of the Israelites passed down through oral tradition prior to the composition of the written book itself.

The narrator feels himself catching a glimpse of pre-history, learning of man's `` age-old familiarity with misfortune '', as well as his `` equally age-old ingenuity, his secret faith in endurance, however crammed with catastrophes, the same faith perhaps as the cave-men used to have in the face of famine ''.

And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.

He spoke about what he considered to be his direct experience of the Akashic Records ( sometimes called the " Akasha Chronicle "), thought to be a spiritual chronicle of the history, pre-history, and future of the world and mankind.

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

Cognitive science has a pre-history traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts ( see Plato's Meno ); and certainly must include writers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke.

Fire has been an important part of all cultures and religions from pre-history to modern day and was vital to the development of civilization.

They have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.

The pre-history of Mexico is known through the work of archaeologists and epigraphers.

* Nordic Bronze Age, the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history, c. 1700-500 BC, with sites that reached as far east as Estonia

As a purposeful activity, energy storage has existed since pre-history, though it was often not explicitly recognized as such.

The pre-history of Sri Lanka dates back over 125, 000 years Before Present ( BP ) and possibly even as early as 500, 000 BP.

Sargon claimed that his people had seeded their species throughout the galaxy, and Spock said that could explain some enigmas of Vulcan pre-history.

Oral traditions trace Samoan ancestry back to pre-history.

Anguilla was first settled in pre-history by Amerindian tribes who migrated from South America.

The history of Belgium, from pre-history to the present day, is intertwined with the histories of its European neighbours, in particular those of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but also Germany and France.

This consideration of whether to keep Sleeping Beauty reflected a belief common among folklorists of the 19th century: that the folk tradition preserved fairy tales in forms from pre-history except when " contaminated " by such literary forms, leading people to tell inauthentic tales.

Abundant natural resources in and around the Menai Straits enabled human habitation in the Caernarfon area during pre-history.

Subsequently, during neolithic pre-history in North Africa ( c. 6000 to 2500 ) and continuing to modern times, " damp pluvial " phases appear to alternate with " dry inter-pluvial " phases.

Taranto's pre-history dates back to 706 BC when it was founded as a Greek colony.

The Stage Manager brings out a long-winded professor to talk about the history and pre-history of Grover's Corners, Editor Webb gives a few notes on local political and religious affiliations and fields questions from the audience about alcoholism, social injustice and culture.

Claimed OOPArts have been used to support religious descriptions of pre-history, ancient astronaut theories, or the notion of vanished civilizations that possessed knowledge or technology more advanced than our own.

* The novel Daughter of Troy by Sarah B. Franklin is written from Briseis ' point of view with a substantial pre-history before the events of the Iliad unfold.

More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.

According to the myth that was current at Amathus, the second most important Cypriote cult centre of Aphrodite, Theseus ' ship was swept off-course and the pregnant and suffering Ariadne put ashore in the storm.

Amathus () was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol.

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

Amathus was built on the coastal cliffs with a natural harbor and flourished at an early date, soon requiring several cemeteries.

Greeks from Euboea left their pottery at Amathus from the tenth century BC.

Amathus is identified with Kartihadasti ( Phoenician " New-Town ") in the Cypriote tribute-list of Esarhaddon of Assyria ( 668 B. C .).

It certainly maintained strong Phoenician sympathies, for it was its refusal to join the philhellene league of Onesilos of Salamis which provoked the revolt of Cyprus from Achaemenid Persia in 500-494BC, when Amathus was besieged unsuccessfully and avenged itself by the capture and execution of Onesilos.

About 385-380 BC the philhellene Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus, in conjunction with Citium and Soli ; and even after Alexander the city resisted annexation, and was bound over to give hostages to Seleucus.

The wealth of Amathus was derived partly from its grain partly from its sheep and copper mines, of which traces can be seen inland.

Amathus was a rich and densely populated kingdom with a flourishing agriculture and mines situated very close to the northeast Kalavasos.

In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

Much later, in 1869, a great number of blocks of stone from Amathus were used for the construction of the Suez Canal.

A new settlement close to Amathus but further inland, Agios Tychonas, is named after the bishop Saint Tychon of Amathus.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.

The ten kingdoms listed by an inscription of Esarhaddon in 673 / 2 BC have been identified as Salamis, Kition, Amathus, Kourion, Paphos and Soli on the coast and Tamassos, Ledra, Idalium and Chytri in the interior.

Limassol's tourist strip now runs east along the coast as far as Amathus.

Limassol was probably built after Amathus had been ruined.

According to the Council of Chalcedon which took place in 451, the local bishop as well as the bishops of Amathus and Arsinoe were involved in the foundation of the city, which would be known by the names of Theodosiana and Neapolis.

Richard destroyed Amathus and the inhabitants were transferred to Limassol.