The prototypal Corded Ware culture, German Schnurkeramikkultur, is found in Central Europe, mainly Germany and Poland, and refers to the characteristic pottery of the era: twisted cord was impressed into the wet clay to create various decorative patterns and motifs. It is known mostly from its burials, and both sexes received the characteristic ...

DinoLite microscopy was performed to assess surface morphology and later to identify key points for conducting investigations with portable XRF. From a microscopic point of view, neither on the surface, nor on the ceramic body, nor in the fractures, were any discriminating elements found for counterfeit production (MdF-26 and Md-40; Figs. 3 and 4).

The Hittites called their kingdom Hattusa (Hatti in Akkadian), a name received from the Hattians, an earlier people who had inhabited and ruled the central Anatolian region until the beginning of the second millennium BC, and who spoke an unrelated language known as Hattic. [14] The modern conventional name "Hittites" is due to the initial identification of the people of Hattusa with the ...

Bronze Age burials were discovered dating from the end of the second to the beginning of the first millennium BC. Achaemenid dishes and ceramics were found 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Dushanbe in Qiblai, as the city was controlled by the Achaemenids from the sixth century BC. [129] Samarkand: Sogdia Uzbekistan: 800–500 BC [130]

Historically, Arkaim’s Swastika connection is real but not unique—pottery from the Sintashta culture does feature Swastika-like motifs, a common symbol across ancient Eurasia (India, Iran, even Native American art). Vadakayil’s 7000 BCE date, though, is way off—archaeology pegs Arkaim at 2000 BCE, max 2200 BCE, based on radiocarbon dating.