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Twelve thousand years of stone

Every dated site in the Atlas, laid on one axis. Drag across the ribbon to choose a span; the sites of that span are listed below.

How many dated sites fall in each part of the axis

Dated
99,086
Undated
1,867
Catalogued
100,953

Selected span

12,000 BCE — 1,500 CE

  1. The first megaliths
  2. The Neolithic
  3. The Copper Age
  4. The Bronze Age
  5. The Iron Age
  6. Classical antiquity
  7. The Middle Ages
  1. Göbekli Tepe9,600 BCE
  2. First farming9,000 BCE
  3. Nabta Playa5,200 BCE
  4. Carnac4,000 BCE
  5. Newgrange3,200 BCE
  6. Stonehenge3,000 BCE
  7. Great Pyramid2,560 BCE
  8. Nuraghe2,000 BCE
  9. Persepolis500 BCE
  10. Rome founded100 CE
  11. Great Zimbabwe600 CE
  12. Angkor Wat1,150 CE
  13. Machu Picchu1,450 CE

Drag across the ribbon, or use the arrow keys, to choose a span.

The named eras

The axis in periods. A site belongs to the era its published date range falls in.

Selected span

99,086 dated sites in this span

12,000 BCE — 1,499 CE · Sites with no published date range are counted on the coverage page, never guessed into a span.