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The Salado culture is a term used by historians and archaeologists to describe a pre-Columbian Southwestern culture that flourished from c. 1200-1450 CE in the Tonto Basin of what is now the southern parts of the present-day US states of...

Tiwanaku (or Tiahuanaco) was the capital of the Tiwanaku empire between c. 200 - 1000 CE and is situated in the Titicaca basin. At an altitude of 3,850 metres (12,600 ft) it was the highest city in the ancient world and had a peak population...

These ancient ceramics are decorated with cord markings. They gave the Jomon period, (13,00-500 BCE) its name; Jomon means "cord-marked". A stick was wrapped with braided cord and then rolled over the surface of the vessels to decorate them...

The Villanovan culture flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy from c. 1000 to c. 750 BCE. It was a precursor of the Etruscan civilization, although the two populations are actually the same and the term Villanovan should not imply...

The Bronze Age in Sicily, considered one of the most important periods of the island's prehistory, witnessed the establishment of a unitary and in some ways artistically vibrant culture. The three main phases of the period take their name...

This bottle is the only piece of pottery from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was made on a wheel, like Frankish pottery; early Anglo-Saxon pottery was typically handmade. Unglazed and therefore porous, it was only suitable for viscous liquids...

Much of the known pottery from the Euphrates region comes from tombs, often in large cemeteries attached to settlement sites. The tombs are of a variety of types, but most typically they consist of rock-cut or stone-built subterranean chambers...

Pottery bowl decorated with geometric designs in dark paint. Complete and handmade. 5200-4200 BCE. From Ur (city-Archaic), Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Painted jug. Pottery. From Cyprus, Geometric Period, 1050-750 BCE. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).

Painted jug, barrel-shaped. Pottery. From Cyprus, Geometric Period, 1050-750 BCE. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).