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Gear of the Antikythera mechanism, a mechanical computer from the 2nd century BCE showing a previously unknown level of complexity. An out-of-place artifact (OOPArt or oopart) is an artifact of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest to someone that is claimed to have been found in an unusual context, which someone claims to challenge conventional historical chronology by its ...
1000–586 BC: Ancient Near East, List of archaeological periods (Levant) Sa Huỳnh culture: Southeast Asia, Vietnam: 1000 BC–AD 200 Woodland period: North America: 1000 BC – AD 1000: List of archaeological periods (North America) Bantu expansion: Sub-Saharan Africa: 1000 BC–AD 500 Middle Nok Period: Sub-Saharan Africa, West: 900–300 ...
Earlier and later lists by the historian Herodotus (c. 484 BC–c. 425 BC) and the poet Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305 –240 BC), housed at the Museum of Alexandria, survive only as references. The Colossus of Rhodes was the last of the seven to be completed, after 280 BC, and the first to be destroyed, by an earthquake in 226/225 BC. It was ...
1000 BC: Athapaskan-speaking natives arrive in Alaska and northwestern North America, possibly from Siberia. 1000 BC: Pottery making widespread in the Eastern Woodlands. 1000 BC–100 AD: Adena culture takes form in the Ohio River valley, carving fine stone pipes placed with their dead in gigantic burial mounds. [1] See Prehistory of Ohio.
The ceramics found in Eritrea date to between 1500 B.C. and 500 B.C., archaeologists said. ... attempting to uncover the secrets of the ancient hub. ... 500-year-old find. Trove of 1,000-year-old ...
2000 – 500 BCE Post-archaic period, (incorporating Formative, Classic and post-Classic stages) (1000 BCE – present) in North Norton tradition: Choris Stage: c. 1000 – 500 BCE Norton: 500 BCE – 800 CE Ipiutak Stage: 1 CE – 800 CE Dorset culture: 500 BCE – 1500 CE Thule people: 200 BCE – 1600 CE on Great Plains Plains Woodland: c ...
Other artifacts were made “using animal remains include a stitched hide boot and carved antler and bone tools.” A 3,000-year-old pair of stick wrapped in animal hide found in the ice.
While in 10,000 BC, the world population stood at 2 million, it rose to 45 million by 3000 BC. By the Iron Age in 1000 BC, the population had risen to 72 million. By the end of the ancient period in AD 500, the world population is thought to have stood at 209 million. In 10,500 years, the world population increased by 100 times. [2]