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The other view was that America (South America) was a huge island wholly unconnected with Asia. [ 51 ] : 12–13, 49–51 Balboa called the Pacific the Mar del Sur and referred to it as "la otra mar", the other sea, by contrast with the Atlantic, evidently with Behaim's concept of only two oceans in mind. [ 53 ]
Nalanda, largest university of ancient time and one of the oldest; Mahaballipuram; Manda, Jammu; Mandi, Uttar Pradesh; Masrur Temples; Meenakshi Temple; Pattadakal; Pandu Rajar Dhibi; Pattanam (South India) [2] Qutub Minar; Rakhigarhi; Rock edicts of Khalsi; Rewari, site of a large hoard of copper artefacts; Sanchi; Sisupalgarh, Mauryan fort ...
First, it shows that Upper Paleolithic Siberians came from a cosmopolitan population of early modern humans that spread out of Africa to Europe and Central and South Asia. Second, Paleoindian skeletons with phenotypic traits atypical of modern-day Native Americans can be explained as having a direct historical connection to Upper Paleolithic ...
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
In the context of archaeology and world history, the term "Old World" includes those parts of the world which were in (indirect) cultural contact from the Bronze Age onwards, resulting in the parallel development of the early civilizations, mostly in the temperate zone between roughly the 45th and 25th parallels north, in the area of the Mediterranean, including North Africa.
Maghull (/ m ə ˈ ɡ ʌ l / mə-GUL) is a town and civil parish in Sefton, Merseyside, England. The town is north of Liverpool and west of Kirkby. The town is also the location of Ashworth Hospital. Maghull had a population of 20,444 at the 2011 Census. [1]
Asia, West Asia, Arabia: Oman: 125–75: Aybut: Tools found in the Dhofar Governorate correspond with African objects from the so-called 'Nubian Complex', dating from 75 to 125,000 years ago. According to archaeologist Jeffrey I. Rose, human settlements spread east from Africa across the Arabian Peninsula. [16] Africa, Central Africa
The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, including North America (Mesoamerica), Central America, South America and the Caribbean. This includes the study of pre-historic/ pre-Columbian and historic indigenous American peoples , as well as historical archaeology of more recent eras, including the ...