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Archeopark Pavlov

Archeopark Pavlov is a modern exhibition offering access to one of the world’s most important prehistoric localities from the time of the mammoth hunters. It familiarizes visitors with a settlement created by modern Homo sapiens on the slopes of the Pálava massif during a period 30,000 years BP, and opens up the material and spiritual world of these people, who inhabited the site for several thousand years.

Tiwanaku

Ceramic vessels decorated with images of fish and birds have been discovered at the Kalasasaya temple at Tiwanaku, a spiritual and political centre of the eponymous Tiwanaku culture located near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca, More details in the comments on our page.. The Tiwanaku culture existed as a city-state from 600 to 1000CE, but this site was occupied from 200BCE onwards. It is considered to have been one of the first cultures in South American that could be considered an "Empire." Tiwanaku had a sphere of influence (if not control) among neighbouring groups and it marshalled resources for public works including irrigation and system of canals and raised beds which allowed an intensive agriculture.

Men-An-Tol

This is what happens when cattle are allowed to using Men-An-Tol as rubbing a post. Fancy a visit? No me neither.. A holed stone thought to be the remains of a stone circle. The suspicion is that the holed stone is the remains of a Neolithic tomb, primarily because holed stones have been found in conjunction with the entrances to burial chambers.

Tanums Hällristningsmuseum Underslös

Tanums Hällristningsmuseum is an international centre for rock art study in Bohuslän, Sweden. The museum is a non commercial institution managed by the Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art.

Askum Rished Hällristningar

Rock Art in Västergötland. There are about six hällristningspanels (rock art panels) near here. Many different figures can be seen, for example: ships, wagons, foodbeds, people and cup marks.

Croazou chapel

See also the page for Croazou chapel menhir in our Nearby Sites list. This is an odd little place in Finistère, where many thousands of years of ritual and worship can all be seen together, from a 6000 year old menhir, through an Iron Age stèle, medieval crosses to a more recent chapel, built on an old one of course.

Menhir de Croaz Ambich

It's right in the middle of the junction! See the Street View lower down our page. A 1.5 metre tall menhir with a cross mounted on top.

Grodzisko Trzcinica

Hillfort in Podkarpackie. The hillfort in Trzcinica is called "Carpathian Troy", as history of its occupation starts in Early Bronze Age and ends in Early Medieval period. The site is located on a promontory overlooking Ropa river, currently it is an archaeological park with reconstructed elements of fortifications and huts from different phases of the hillfort's occupation.

Fortified Hill Works

Historic Earthworks Now on Auction Block. Fund Raising Effort for Preservation.. Hillfort in Butler County, Ohio."The Fortified Hill Earthwork is one of six Hopewell Culture earthworks on a six mile stretch of the Great Miami River included on a map in Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley published as the first publication of the Smithsonian Institution in 1848. Today it is the only one of the six that survives, and it still preserves its distinctive and impressive gateways. "

Silbury Hill

The Avebury Art Project is running from 30th Sept to 13th Oct where many different artists will be displaying their work. Location: Bath Artists’ Studios, The Old Malthouse, Bath. More details in the comments on our page. The largest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe, Silbury Hill is 39m high, covers an area of 2.2 ha and is estimated to have taken 18 million man-hours to construct. Notice in our photos below how the terrace near the top lines up with the horizon, when seen from West Kennet Long Barrow.