Later, Evans also tried to destroy the career of Alan Wace, a young Cambridge scholar who argued that warlike Mycenaeans from mainland Greece had eclipsed the Minoans late in the Bronze Age, a view that today has become widely accepted.
They were used all over again in the late Bronze Age (1200-800 BC) as cremation cemeteries and cremation pyres.
Evans wanted fervently to believe that the Minoans' wealth in the late Bronze Age was based on a powerful seafaring empire that extended to mainland Greece.
Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
Experts say it is unusual for so many organic objects to survive for this length of time in a grave from the Bronze Age period.
Either way, though, the evidence is pretty indicative that the person wrapped in this cloth would probably have made the Bronze Age Denmark version of the Forbes 400.
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The drafting of the World Heritage Convention was inspired by the international synergy of this great project as well as subsequent UNESCO campaigns during the 1960s to conserve treasures such as the city of Venice, Italy, after the great flood of 1966, the threatened Bronze Age city of Moenjodaro in Pakistan, and the Buddhist temple compounds of Borobodur, Indonesia.
Their monuments survive, but their houses (rare exceptions aside, particularly in Orkney) are lost to us, so in the later Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age, these henges and stones circles seem to have been the prime concerns of the people who built them.
The Salisbury Hoard, which included more than 500 objects from the Iron Age and Bronze Age, was discovered in 1986 near the city.
The 4, 000-year-old remains of the Bronze Age grave or cist, which were found in a peat bog, are set to rewrite the history books.
Other finds turned up in the course of excavations for the rail route include bones from prehistoric animals, Bronze Age and Roman tools, and the largest piece of amber ever uncovered in Britain.
The site, where Queen Mary's Hospital was located, is less than 100m (328ft) away from a hilltop where late Bronze Age remains were discovered in the early 20th Century.
The discovery of a bronze age granite cist, or grave, in 2011 in a peat bog on White Horse Hill revealed the first organic remains found on the moor and a hoard of about 150 beads.
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"From the geology in the location they were found we know it was Bronze Age construction, " she added.
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The collapse of early Bronze Age civilizations in modern-day Greece, India and Greece have been theoretically linked to abrupt climate changes about 4, 200 years ago.
After all, the Iron Age led to gigantic empires in the Middle East the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian as it dramatically undercut the previous Bronze Age cost of tools, armor, and weaponry.
Y. systems engineer Michael Crisafulli , 55, a history buff, has taken a volunteer trip nearly every year since 1991-including the 1994 excavation of a Bronze Age site in Borja, Spain where he met his wife, Karen, a teacher.
Surface surveys and rescue excavations, the result of a building boom in the Peloponnese, provide lots of new information about other areas of Bronze Age life, from farming to foreign trade.
In 2010, the International Olympic Committee stripped China of its bronze medal from the 2000 Games for lying about the age of a team member who was 14 when she competed.
Nevertheless, stone circles and henges do appear to be connected parts of a tradition that developed in Britain from around 3000 to 2000 BC - in other words, during the later Neolithic period (when agriculture began here) and moving into the earlier Bronze Age (when we see the first use of metals, from about 2400 BC).
Two Bronze Age burial pots containing human remains have been found at the base of a standing stone in Angus.
In another area not far from modern Sibari, near Spezzano Albanese, the archaeologists have unearthed dwellings from the Middle Bronze Age alongside objects of Aegean origin.
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Items also declared treasure by Norfolk's assistant deputy coroner David Osborne included an Anglo-Saxon silver pin found in Scoulton, a Middle Bronze Age Gold Bead discovered in Salthouse and a hoard of 59 silver Roman coins that date from the Roman Republic to Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome.
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