Hittites

Minoan civilization

Frescoes at Knossos show acrobats vaulting over the horns and backs of charging bulls, a ritual sport with no clear parallel elsewhere.

Ancient EgyptKemet (km.t)

Ramesses II's 66-year reign overlapped the building of the Lion Gate at Mycenae and, in the Xia–Shang–Zhou Project's dates, Wu Ding of Shang, whose diviners at Anyang carved the earliest large body of Chinese writing onto oracle bones.

Jōmon period

The earliest Jōmon pots were plain. The cord impressions that gave the period its name, "rope pattern", came later.

Shang dynasty商

Builders at Zhengzhou raised city walls of pounded earth, layer by layer; stretches still stand in the modern city.

Valdivia culture

Valdivia potters shaped small clay "Venus" figures of women, each with a distinct hairstyle, no two exactly alike.