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Americas

20 collections
Americas Reviewed Aug 2026

Native Nations of the United States

Explore an editorial first release of profiles centered on contemporary sovereign Native Nations in the United States. Each entry distinguishes historical homelands from present-day government, identifies the terminology used by the Nation itself where sources support it, and connects key facts to official or public-institution sources.

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10
Time
Deep history to the present
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Aug 2026

Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Greenland

Explore six source-reviewed profiles centered on living Indigenous peoples and institutions in Canada and Greenland. This selective collection distinguishes peoples, governments, language communities, legal categories, census identities, and places of residence while treating every map marker as an orientation point only.

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6
Time
Deep history to the present
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Aug 2026

Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Explore six source-reviewed profiles across Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Five center living peoples and current institutions; the Taíno profile carefully separates archaeological and colonial evidence from diverse modern identity and organizational contexts.

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6
Time
Deep history to the present
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Aug 2026

Indigenous Peoples of South America

Explore six source-reviewed profiles spanning the Andes, southern cone, lowlands, and Amazonia. Five center living peoples and current institutions; the Muisca profile separates archaeological and colonial evidence from varied contemporary identity and organizational contexts.

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6
Time
Deep history to the present
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of the Americas: Communities, Cities, and Living Heritage

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 23,000 years ago through 1500 CE across North, Central, and South America. The Americas, pre-contact, pre-Columbian, Mesoamerica, and the Andes are modern or scholarly frames, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, migration, or genetic population.

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20
Time
Approximately 23,000 years ago-1500 CE
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Caribbean Island Worlds: Communities, Voyaging, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective Caribbean archaeological contexts, from lagoon communities and household foodways to ceremonial landscapes, inter-island exchange, colonial encounters, and living heritage. Evidence, languages, material classifications, and modern identities remain distinct.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 5500 BCE-1600 CE; earliest claims are context-dependent, Argyle's early-seventeenth-century extension and modern heritage events are labeled separately
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Central Andean Worlds: Coasts, Highlands, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective archaeological contexts across Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile: coastal foodways, highland households, ceremonial landscapes, skilled production, changing political networks, and living heritage. Evidence, language, material classifications, and modern identities remain distinct.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 15,000 calibrated years BP to 1600 CE, with site-specific gaps and chronologies; modern research and conservation events are labeled separately
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Amazonia and the Orinoco: Rivers, Landscapes, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective Amazonian, Orinoco, and Guiana coastal contexts: early occupation, food production, earthworks, settlements, water management, skilled work, and living stewardship. Material classifications, languages, political relationships, and modern identities remain distinct.

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20
Time
Late Pleistocene through approximately 1600 CE, broadly from around 13,000 calibrated years BP onward; site-specific chronologies, gaps and modern heritage events are distinguished
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Mesoamerican Worlds: Communities, Cities, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective Mesoamerican contexts through households, farming, water, writing, skilled work, political change, and living heritage. Distinguish material classifications, languages, cities, states, and contemporary peoples without turning archaeology into an ancestry claim.

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20
Time
Broadly 2000 BCE–1600 CE, with site-specific Formative, Classic and Postclassic sequences; modern research and living heritage are separately dated
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Southern South America: Pampas, Patagonia, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective contexts across the Pampas, Uruguayan wetlands, Patagonia, Chiloé, and southern channels through food, skilled work, dating, environmental change, and colonial encounters. Distinguish archaeology from living identities without making personal origin claims.

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20
Time
Broadly about 14,000 years ago–1600 CE, with site-specific radiocarbon and calibrated chronologies distinguished; modern research and living heritage are separately dated
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Arctic and Subarctic Worlds: Communities, Ice, and Connected Landscapes

Explore twenty selected contexts across Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland: Beringian camps, coastal and inland households, foodways, boats, frozen deposits and living cultural landscapes. Archaeological classifications, languages, community histories and modern political categories remain distinct.

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20
Time
Approximately 12,000 BCE–1700 CE. Earlier Bluefish Caves background, later colonial events, research and living heritage are separately dated.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Southwestern North American Worlds: Communities, Water, and Connected Landscapes

Explore twenty selected contexts across the Colorado Plateau, Rio Grande, Sonoran Desert and northern Mexican borderlands: early irrigation, Pueblo settlements, earthen towns, craft and exchange. Archaeological classifications, living community histories, languages and political authority remain distinct.

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20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1700 CE as a regional frame. Most built settlements are much later; earlier background opens through existing White Sands and Clovis profiles. Later research, colonial outcomes and living stewardship are separately dated.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Eastern North American Worlds: Rivers, Earthworks, and Living Homelands

Explore twenty selected contexts across eastern and central North America: shelter use, early pottery, earthworks, river towns, foodways, exchange and living heritage. Material classifications, languages, political communities and modern identities remain distinct.

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20
Time
Approximately 8000 BCE–1700 CE as a regional frame, with earlier Russell Cave background qualified. Most monumental centers are later; twentieth-century research, reconstruction, repatriation and living heritage are separately dated.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Pacific Coast North American Worlds: Coastal Communities, River Networks, and Living Homelands

Explore twenty selective contexts from southeastern Alaska to California: changing coastal settlements, wet-site technologies, fishing and clam gardens, river households, estuaries and island connections. Archaeological evidence and living community histories are connected but not interchangeable.

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20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1700 CE as a regional frame, not the occupation dates of every profile. Earlier coastal changes are background; later colonial, research, reconstruction, protection and living-heritage events are separately dated.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Great Plains Worlds: Grasslands, River Villages, and Living Homelands

Explore twenty selective Great Plains contexts: early camps, stone production, bison-hunting landscapes, farming villages, household work, river exchange and living heritage. Archaeological classifications, languages and political communities remain distinct.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1800 CE as a regional frame, not the occupation dates of every profile. Earlier terminal Pleistocene background and uncertain radiocarbon-to-calendar relationships are qualified. Later colonial, relocation, research, museum and living-heritage events are separately dated.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Great Basin and Columbia Plateau Worlds: Lakes, Rivers, and Living Homelands

Explore twenty selective Great Basin and Columbia Plateau contexts, from Paisley, Fort Rock and Connley cave evidence to wetland technology, farming settlements and connected river communities. Archaeological classifications, languages and living identities remain distinct.

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20
Time
Approximately 12,000 BCE–1800 CE as a rounded regional frame, not every profile's occupation dates. Proposed earlier Nipéhe / Cooper's Ferry and Paisley evidence is explicitly qualified. Radiocarbon ages and calendar estimates are distinguished. Later colonial, dam, research, museum and living-heritage events are separately dated.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Northern Andean Worlds: Highlands, Valleys, and Pacific Connections

Explore twenty selective Northern Andean contexts, from reassessed early shelter evidence to villages, wetland craft, monumental landscapes and Cañari–Inka encounters. Archaeological classifications, languages, political communities and living identities remain distinct.

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20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1600 CE as a rounded regional frame, not every context's occupation dates. Earlier El Abra and Tibitó claims are explicitly qualified. Radiocarbon BP, calibrated BP and BCE/CE are distinguished. Later colonial, research, museum and living-heritage events are dated separately.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Isthmian Worlds: Communities, Landscapes, and Connections in Costa Rica and Panama

Explore twenty selective contexts across Costa Rica and Panama, from early toolmaking and plant-food studies to coastal villages, water engineering and Diquís stoneworking. Regional histories have their own agency, not merely a role as a bridge between larger civilizations.

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20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1600 CE as a rounded regional frame, not every context's occupation dates. Early Guardiria and Vampiros associations are qualified; radiocarbon BP, calibrated BP and BCE/CE remain distinct. Later colonial outcomes, collecting, research and heritage work are dated separately.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Western and Northern Mexican Worlds: Communities, Landscapes, and Connections

Explore twenty selective contexts across western and northern Mexico: early tools, farming and waterwork, rock-art landscapes, household construction and regional exchange. These histories are not merely a frontier or a passive extension of central Mexican states.

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20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1600 CE as a rounded frame, not each place's occupation. El Fin del Mundo's reported approximately 13,390 calibrated BP association is earlier than this rounded beginning. Radiocarbon BP, calibrated BP and BCE/CE remain distinct; modern research and later colonial outcomes are dated separately.
Open collection
Americas Reviewed Oct 2026

Atlantic Northeastern Worlds: Coasts, River Valleys, and Living Homelands

Explore twenty selective contexts across Atlantic Canada, the St. Lawrence and northeastern New England. Early camps, shell deposits, farming villages and working shorelines reveal different histories, not an empty coast awaiting European discovery or one timeless northeastern people.

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20
Time
Approximately 11,000 BCE–1700 CE as a rounded regional frame, not every context's occupation. BP, calibrated BP and BCE/CE remain distinct. Boyd's Cove's reported occupation through approximately 1720, later Acadian deportation and modern research, conservation and stewardship are identified as later outcomes.
Open collection
World region

Europe

11 collections
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Celtic Peoples of Iron Age and Classical Europe

Explore twelve source-reviewed profiles of peoples and political communities associated with Celtic-language evidence or ancient Celtic terminology across Iron Age and classical Europe. The collection keeps local identities, archaeological horizons, languages, and Greek or Roman testimony analytically distinct.

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12
Time
Approximately 800 BCE–400 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Iberia: Peoples and Encounters

Explore twelve source-reviewed profiles spanning the Late Bronze Age through Late Antiquity. Archaeological cultures, ancient names, languages, settlements, and Roman provinces are kept distinct so that ‘Iberia’ never becomes a claim about one people or one ancestry.

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12
Time
Approximately 1200 BCE–500 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Britain and Ireland: Peoples and Transformations

Explore twelve source-reviewed profiles spanning named peoples, archaeological communities, island contacts, Roman civic life, and the first centuries after imperial government. The collection keeps ancient outsider names, material evidence, languages, political organization, and later identities analytically distinct.

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12
Time
Approximately 800 BCE–500 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

The Viking Age: Societies and Connected Worlds

Explore twelve source-reviewed profiles spanning Scandinavian towns and monuments, island and urban communities, North Atlantic settlement, and eastern river networks. The collection treats Viking as an activity and modern period label rather than one people, race, nation, or genetic population.

Profiles
12
Time
Approximately 750–1100 CE, with later outcomes followed where necessary
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Italy: Peoples, Cities, and Transformations

Explore twelve source-reviewed profiles across the Italian peninsula, Sicily, and Sardinia. The collection distinguishes peoples, languages, scripts, archaeological classifications, city communities, Mediterranean settlements, and changing Roman legal categories rather than presenting ancient Italy as one population.

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12
Time
Approximately 1200 BCE–500 CE, with earlier architectural background where essential
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Balkans and Southeast Europe: Peoples, Kingdoms, and Transformations

Explore twelve source-reviewed profiles across Southeast Europe from the later Bronze Age to late antiquity. The collection treats Balkans as a modern geographic convention and keeps ancient names, archaeological evidence, languages, cities, kingdoms, Roman provinces, and modern identities analytically distinct.

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12
Time
Approximately 1200 BCE–600 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Eastern Europe: Steppe, Forest, Cities, and Transformations

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about communities, cities, archaeological classifications, languages, labor, mobility, and political change across eastern Europe from approximately 1500 BCE to 900 CE. Eastern Europe is used as a modern geographic convention, not an ancient people or identity.

Profiles
14
Time
Approximately 1500 BCE-900 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of Scandinavia and Fennoscandia

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about communities, archaeological classifications, landscapes, subsistence, language evidence, exchange, and political change across Scandinavia and Fennoscandia from approximately 9500 BCE to 750 CE. These modern geographic terms do not name one ancient people, culture, or identity.

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16
Time
Approximately 9500 BCE-750 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Greece and the Aegean: Communities, Cities, and Connected Worlds

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about Neolithic communities, Aegean archaeological horizons, Bronze Age political centers, Iron Age communities, poleis, sanctuaries, households, labor, mobility, colonial encounters, and Roman-era change from approximately 7000 BCE to 600 CE. These connected histories did not form one timeless Greek nation, race, democracy, culture, language, or genetic population.

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18
Time
Approximately 7000 BCE-600 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of Central Europe: Communities, Networks, and Transformations

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 300,000 years ago through 1200 CE across parts of modern Central Europe. Central Europe is a modern geographic convention, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, or genetic population.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 300,000 years ago-1200 CE
Open collection
Europe Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of Western Europe: France and the Low Countries

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 700,000 years ago through 1000 CE across areas now associated with France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Western Europe is a modern geographic convention, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, religion, or genetic population.

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20
Time
Approximately 700,000 years ago-1000 CE
Open collection
World region

Africa

10 collections
Africa Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient North Africa: Peoples, Cities, Kingdoms, and Transformations

Explore twelve source-reviewed profiles across the Maghreb, Sahara, and Libyan coast through Cyrenaica. The collection distinguishes changing geographic terms, ancient names, languages, cities, political formations, and Roman or late-antique institutions rather than presenting ancient North Africa as one population.

Profiles
12
Time
Approximately 1200 BCE–700 CE, with earlier background only where essential
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Nile Valley: Egypt, Nubia, and Kush

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about Neolithic communities, Egyptian states, Nubian societies, Kushite kingdoms, labor, writing, mobility, conquest, and religious change from approximately 5000 BCE to 700 CE. Egypt, Nubia, and Kush were connected historical contexts, not one timeless people or identity.

Profiles
18
Time
Approximately 5000 BCE-700 CE
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Aug 2026

African Worlds South of the Sahara: Deep History, Cities, and States

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning Pleistocene occupation, rock art, pastoral and farming contexts, cities, political formations, and regional networks from approximately 160,000 years ago through 1500 CE. Africa south of the Sahara is a modern geographic frame, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, or genetic population.

Profiles
18
Time
Approximately 160,000 years ago-1500 CE
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Oct 2026

Madagascar and the Comoros: Island Communities and Indian Ocean Connections

Explore twenty selective contexts across Madagascar and the Comoros archipelago, from early settlement debates and food histories to quarrying, river networks, highland polities, mosques, and historic towns. Sources distinguish local agency, exchange, labor, religious change, and living heritage without reducing people to an African-versus-Asian origin story.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 500-1800 CE; earlier settlement claims are explicitly debated, and later research, conservation, and living heritage are dated separately
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Oct 2026

Saharan Worlds: Lakes, Pastoral Landscapes, and Caravan Networks

Explore twenty selective contexts across Saharan rock-art landscapes, former lakes, pastoral settings, oases, and caravan towns. Distinguish climate archives, archaeological classifications, political institutions, and living communities without turning them into one people or a personal origin story.

Profiles
20
Time
Broadly about 12,000 BCE–1500 CE, with site-specific phases, dating uncertainty, and earlier background distinguished; later buildings, research, and living heritage are separately dated
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Oct 2026

West African Worlds: Rivers, Forests, Cities, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective West African contexts, from early pottery and plant use to monuments, urban households, manuscripts, and coastal encounters. Distinguish archaeological evidence, political traditions, and living heritage without treating the region as one people or a personal origin story.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1600 CE, with site-specific chronology and uncertainty; necessary earlier background, later buildings, research and living heritage separately identified
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Oct 2026

East African Lakes and Rift Worlds: Communities, Landscapes, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective inland eastern African contexts through fishing, plant use, herding, craft networks, irrigation, monuments, and political traditions. Distinguish sampled archaeology, languages, and living heritage without turning regional labels into one people or a personal origin story.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1700 CE as a broad frame, with site-specific chronology; necessary earlier background, later occupation, restoration, research and living stewardship separately identified
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Oct 2026

Southern African Worlds: Rivers, Stone Cities, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective southern African contexts through food, household work, rock art, cattle, metalwork, terraced fields, stone settlements and regional exchange. Local sequences and living custodianship take priority over a single story of origins, empire or ancestry.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1700 CE as a broad frame, with site-specific chronology; earlier Pleistocene background, later occupation, restoration, research and living stewardship separately identified
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Oct 2026

Central African Worlds: Forests, Rivers, and Connected Histories

Explore twenty selective Central African contexts through shelter use, mixed foodways, pottery, iron and copper work, river exchange and regional political centers. Local sequences, source limitations and living authority take priority over myths of an isolated rainforest or one origin story.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1700 CE as a broad frame, with site-specific chronology; earlier Pleistocene background, post-1700 material, excavation, collecting and living stewardship separately identified
Open collection
Africa Reviewed Oct 2026

Horn of Africa Worlds: Highlands, Pastoral Landscapes, and Maritime Connections

Explore twenty evidence-led contexts across the Horn of Africa, from Holocene shelter histories and pastoral imagery to highland towns, island inscriptions and medieval Christian and Muslim communities. Local work, environmental change, religious plurality and living custodianship remain central.

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20
Time
Approximately 10,000 BCE–1700 CE; older background, recent research and living heritage are separately dated.
Open collection
World region

Asia

15 collections
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Near East: Cities, Kingdoms, Languages, and Connected Worlds

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about cities, kingdoms, languages, archives, labor, exchange, and uneven transformation across the ancient Near East from approximately 4000 to 900 BCE. The collection treats the Near East as a modern scholarly convention rather than an ancient people or identity.

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14
Time
Approximately 4000-900 BCE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Early China: Regional Cultures, States, and Imperial Transformations

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about archaeological communities, regional centers, states, writing, work, ritual, mobility, conquest, and imperial institutions from approximately 7000 BCE to 220 CE. Early China is a modern study frame, not the name of one timeless people, nation, culture, or identity.

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18
Time
Approximately 7000 BCE-220 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Ancient Central Asia and Inner Eurasia: Oases, Steppe Societies, and Connected Worlds

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about farming settlements, pastoral and mobile communities, oasis cities, political formations, labor, exchange, conflict, religion, and imperial change from approximately 3700 BCE to 900 CE. Central Asia and Inner Eurasia were never one people, race, nation, language, culture, or genetic population.

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18
Time
Approximately 3700 BCE-900 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Early South Asia: Communities, Cities, States, and Connected Worlds

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection about early farming communities, Indus cities, Iron Age and early historic settlements, states, monastic institutions, labor, writing, belief, and mobility from approximately 7000 BCE to 700 CE. Early South Asia was never one people, race, nation, language, religion, caste, culture, or genetic population.

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18
Time
Approximately 7000 BCE-700 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of Northeast Asia: Korean Peninsula, Japanese Archipelago, and Connected Seas

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 13,000 BCE through 1000 CE across the Korean Peninsula, Japanese Archipelago, Lower Amur, Primorye, Hokkaido, and connected maritime worlds. Northeast Asia is a modern geographic frame, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, or genetic population.

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20
Time
Approximately 13,000 BCE-1000 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of the Caucasus: Highlands, Lowlands, and Connected Worlds

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 1.85 million years ago through 700 CE across the Caucasus highlands, Black Sea and Caspian corridors, and neighboring lowlands. The Caucasus is a changing geographic frame, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, or genetic population.

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20
Time
Approximately 1.85 million years ago-700 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of Arabia and the Red Sea: Oases, Kingdoms, and Connected Shores

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 210,000 years ago through 700 CE across Arabia, the Gulf, and the Red Sea. These are changing geographic frames, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, or genetic population.

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20
Time
Approximately 210,000 years ago-700 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of the Iranian Plateau and Zagros: Communities, Empires, and Connected Landscapes

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 63,000 years ago through 700 CE across the Iranian Plateau and Zagros. The region was never one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, religion, or genetic population.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 63,000 years ago-700 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of Anatolia: Communities, Kingdoms, and Imperial Crossroads

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 500,000 years ago through 700 CE across Anatolia. Modern Türkiye, Anatolia, Asia Minor, archaeological classifications, languages, political formations, religions, living identities, and genetic populations require distinct evidence.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 500,000 years ago-700 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of the Levant: Communities, Cities, and Imperial Crossroads

Explore twenty evidence-sensitive profiles spanning Palaeolithic caves, early settlements, coastal cities, sacred and political landscapes, desert networks, Roman provincial communities, and late-antique transformations. The Levant is used as a modern scholarly-geographic frame, never as one people, religion, nation, or genetic population.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 500,000 years ago-700 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Oct 2026

Deep History of Siberia: Rivers, Forests, and Arctic Worlds

Explore twenty archaeological profiles of cave occupations, river camps, lakeshore livelihoods, metalworking, burial landscapes, Arctic transport, and early medieval institutions. Discover how environments, labor, mobility, belief, and exchange changed across this vast and diverse region.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 300,000 years ago-1200 CE
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Oct 2026

Deep History of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas: Highlands, Valleys, and Connected Worlds

Explore twenty source-linked profiles of high-altitude occupation, farming, herding, valley communities, inscriptions, monasteries, and connected mountain worlds. Read archaeological evidence alongside chronology debates, living heritage, and the limits of political and religious accounts.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 190,000 years ago-1500 CE, with later research and heritage reception
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Oct 2026

Deccan and Southern Indian Worlds: Communities, Cities, and Ocean Connections

Explore twenty selected contexts across the Deccan and southern India, from layered settlements to medieval cities. Household work, writing, water, patronage and exchange reveal connected but different histories, not one timeless people or civilization.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 3000 BCE–1500 CE as a rounded regional frame, not every site's occupation. Profiles give narrower or relative dates where warranted. Hampi's 1565 disruption, later research, conservation and living institutions are explicitly later outcomes.
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Oct 2026

Eastern Indian and Bengal Worlds: Rivers, Cities, and Bay of Bengal Connections

Explore twenty selective archaeological and historical contexts, from qualified Neolithic and Chalcolithic sequences to delta towns and medieval institutions. Distinguish excavated evidence, inscriptions, museum collections and situated traditions without turning regional names into timeless peoples.

Profiles
20
Time
Main frame approximately 2000 BCE–1500 CE; earlier Chirand background and later research, conservation and reception are explicitly dated separately.
Open collection
Asia Reviewed Oct 2026

Western Indian Worlds: Deserts, Rivers, Ports, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective contexts across desert margins, river valleys and coastal exchange landscapes. Distinguish excavation, plant remains, craft debris, royal records, medieval buildings and living heritage without turning western India into one ancient people.

Profiles
20
Time
Main frame approximately 5000 BCE–1500 CE; narrower site phases, earlier dating proposals and later research or heritage histories are explicitly distinguished.
Open collection
World region

Southeast Asia & Oceania

5 collections
Southeast Asia & Oceania Reviewed Aug 2026

Deep History of Southeast Asia and Oceania: Communities, States, and Ocean Worlds

Explore a selective, source-reviewed collection spanning approximately 65,000 years ago through 1500 CE across mainland and island Southeast Asia, Sahul, Near Oceania, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Southeast Asia, Oceania, and the Pacific are modern or scholarly geographic frames, not one people, race, nation, language, culture, civilization, or genetic population.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 65,000 years ago-1500 CE
Open collection
Southeast Asia & Oceania Reviewed Oct 2026

Pacific Island Worlds: Voyaging, Communities, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty source-linked contexts across western and eastern Pacific island worlds, from early coastal settlement to farming, craft, chiefly institutions, and sacred landscapes. Archaeology, language histories, oral traditions, and living identities remain distinct.

Profiles
20
Time
Approximately 1500 BCE-1500 CE; local sequences begin at different dates. Later evidence and reception are explicitly labeled.
Open collection
Southeast Asia & Oceania Reviewed Oct 2026

Deep History of Australia: Country, Communities, and Living Heritage

Explore twenty selective archaeological and cultural-landscape contexts across mainland Australia, lutruwita / Tasmania, and western Torres Strait. Water management, craft, rock art, food practices, and living care are presented with source-specific evidence limits, not as one timeless people or a personal ancestry report.

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20
Time
Approximately 65,000 years ago-1700 CE as a broad frame; each local chronology differs, and later research, loss, and living stewardship are dated separately
Open collection
Southeast Asia & Oceania Reviewed Oct 2026

Mainland Southeast Asian Worlds: River Valleys, Cities, and Connected Landscapes

Explore twenty selective contexts from prehistoric settlements to medieval river cities. Follow evidence for dating, construction, water, religious patronage and regional connections without turning changing polities into timeless peoples.

Profiles
20
Time
Regional frame approximately 3000 BCE–1500 CE; these new contexts concentrate on the second millennium BCE onward. Earlier regional evidence is linked, and later monuments, research and conservation are explicitly separated.
Open collection
Southeast Asia & Oceania Reviewed Oct 2026

Island Southeast Asian Worlds: Caves, Coastal Communities, and Maritime Networks

Explore twenty selective island contexts, from Pleistocene deposits and painted landscapes to medieval inscriptions, coastal settlements and religious centers. Follow dated evidence and local choices without turning islands, objects or languages into one migration or people.

Profiles
20
Time
Pleistocene contexts through approximately 1500 CE, with separate chronologies for each site. Sangiran extends into the Early Pleistocene; later research, conservation and reception are explicitly distinguished.
Open collection
Editorial method

Designed for evidence, clarity, and expansion

Reviewed profiles

Names, dates, institutions, and data points link to primary sources or accountable public institutions.

Honest geography

Reference points aid orientation without pretending that a marker is a legal, political, cultural, linguistic, or homeland boundary.

Grounded AI guide

Profile questions are answered only from approved content and cited source identifiers, with no personal or genetic data.

Reusable foundation

61 collections share a reusable framework while preserving tailored terminology, evidence rules, and identity safeguards for each region and period.

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