Thutmose's annals on the walls of the temple of Karnak describing 20 years of military activity in Asia are supplemented by stelae from Armant.SYNONYMS OR RELATED TERMS: atlantes (plural) telamon (Latin), caryatid (female)CATEGORY: structure DEFINITION: In Greek architecture, male figures which were so called for the story of Titan Atlas, in which humans were used instead of columns to support entablatures, balconies, or other projections.

[NP] Agriculture spread throughout the Fertile Crescent and use of pottery became more widespread. - Amesbury in Wiltshire confirmed as oldest UK settlement - "A Wiltshire town has been confirmed as the longest continuous settlement in the United Kingdom. P.] Amesbury, including Stonehenge, has been continually occupied since 8820BC, experts have found. They range in date from 8,000 "Stonehenge was for a long while thought to have been built slowly - over about 1000 years between 2,100 and 1,100 BC.Amen is associated with the ram, though represented in human form, and sometimes incorporated with the sun god CATEGORY: geology DEFINITION: A bronze containing antimony in combination, as a third constituent.It may have been added to the original copper ore in the alloy since it improves the hardening qualities.Larger settlements like Jericho arose along salt and flint trade routes. This chronology was called into question in 1996 by new archaeological evidence.Northern Eurasia was resettled as the glaciers of the last glacial maximum retreated. Following a two-year study commisioned by the English Heritage Foundation, researchers concluded that the great circles of blustones and sarsens had in fact been put up between 2,600 BC and 2,030 BC. - Neolithic Age - "According to popular history, this period [10,000 - 8,000 B.