Archaeology
Çatalhöyük - 7500 B.C.
by Ben on Oct.22, 2008, under Anthropology, Archaeology, History
Çatalhöyük (pronounced [ʧɑtÉ‘l højyk] in Turkish; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics; çatal is Turkish for “fork”, höyük for “mound”) was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, dating from around 7500 B.C. for the lowest layers. It is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date.
How to Read Mayan Hieroglyphs
by Ben on Jun.14, 2008, under Archaeology, Mayan
Fun interactive exercise in reading a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Mayan stela.
Macuilli Ollin: An Animation of the Aztec Calendar
by Ben on Jul.29, 2007, under 2012, Ancient, Archaeology, Aztec, Calendar, History, Science
Go check out Charles William Johnson and Jorge Luna MartÃnez’s site @ http://www.paleoanimation.us
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