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Pages in category "Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. Derived from the German Linearbandkeramik , it is also known as the Linear Band Ware , Linear Ware , Linear Ceramics or Incised Ware culture , falling within the Danubian I culture of V. Gordon Childe .
Cardium pottery or Cardial ware is a Neolithic decorative style that gets its name from the imprinting of the clay with the heart-shaped shell of the Corculum cardissa, a member of the cockle family Cardiidae. These forms of pottery are in turn used to define the Neolithic culture which produced and spread them, commonly called the "Cardial ...
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia (1 C, 156 P) C. Colonial Williamsburg (42 P) M. Mount Vernon (1 C, 18 P, 1 F)
Reconstruction of a Neolithic farmstead, Irish National Heritage Park.The Neolithic saw the invention of agriculture.. The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia, Mesopotamia and Africa (c. 10,000 BC to c. 2,000 BC).
Spirals or plastic ornament which is similar to Grooved Ware is found on the Aberdeenshire examples, this being a type of late Neolithic pottery not known in the north-east but common in Orkney and Fife. The Newgrange carvings in Ireland show strong similarities to those found on some balls.
Fragment of an Unstan ware bowl. Unstan ware is the name used by archaeologists for a type of finely made and decorated Neolithic pottery from the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. . Typical are elegant and distinctive shallow bowls with a band of grooved patterning below the rim, [1] a type of decoration which was created using a technique known as "stab-and-d
Pottery excavated from many of these different sites, with types including Madisonville Plain, Cordmarked, or Smoothed Cordmarked wares, have a unique feature (a 2-twist direction to the cordage) which is rarely found in pottery from sites to the west of the Clover site and are relatively common at sites to its east. This suggest that Clover ...