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Calibrated Carbon 14 dates for Çatalhöyük, as of 2013. [1]Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk / ˌ tʃ ɑː t ɑː l ˈ h uː j ʊ k / cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic ...
Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps are a series of prehistoric pile dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from about 5000 to 500 BC on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands.
Doom was one of the first major commercial games to be released for Linux.. The beginning of Linux as a gaming platform for commercial video games is widely credited to have begun in 1994 when Dave D. Taylor ported the game Doom to Linux, as well as many other systems, during his spare time.
The fact that about the 6th century BC the citizens of Epidamnus constructed a Doric-style treasury at Olympia confirms that the city was among the richest of the Ancient Greek world. An ancient account describes Epidamnos as 'a great power and very populated' city. [20] Nymphaeum was another Greek colony in Illyria. [21]
Slave Pits of the Undercity: 4–7: David Cook: 1980 A2 9040: Secret of the Slavers Stockade: 4–7: Harold Johnson Tom Moldvay: 1981 A3 9041: Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords: 4–7: Allen Hammack: 1981 A4 9042: In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords: 4–7: Lawrence Schick: 1981 A1–4 9167: Scourge of the Slave Lords: 7–11: Various: 1986
Publius Vedius Pollio, the son of a freedman, was born in the 1st century BC and attained membership of the equestrian order. [2] [3]Vedius Pollio's first certain appearance in historical sources comes after Octavian (later Augustus) became sole ruler of the Roman world in 31 BC; at some point Vedius held authority in the province of Asia on behalf of the emperor. [4]
A landfill [a] is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s.
The cat (Felis catus), also referred to as the domestic cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae.Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC.