NOUNS

Age /eɪdʒ/

Ex: Britain was still recovering from the Ice Age.

Archaeologist /ˌɑːkiˈɒlədʒɪst/

Ex: Nevertheless, archaeologists have sketched out the following outline of events.

Century /ˈsentʃəri/

Ex: By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born.

Decade /ˈdekeɪd/

Ex: The past decade has seen a huge rise in the number of broadband users.

Era /ˈɪərə/ 

Ex: Stones began to arrive in this era.

Evidence /ˈevɪdəns/

Ex: There is also evidence that dental problems caused difficulties in other early civilizations.

Excavation /ˌekskəˈveɪʃn/

Ex: We do not know if there are more of them as excavation did not cover a large area.

Generation /ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn/

Ex: If we consider only the ancient stones themselves, the work spanned seventy generations – some 1,600 years.

The Middle Ages /ðə ˈmɪdl eɪdʒ/

Ex: The museum has excellent exhibition about life during Middle Ages.

Millennia /mɪˈleniə/ (millennium)

Ex: Many visitors to Stonehenge fail to notice the ‘henge’ since the ditch and bank have been greatly eroded over the passing millennia.

Period /ˈpɪəriəd/ 

Ex: Stonehenge was built over a long period.

Phase /feɪz/

Ex: If we consider the structure chronologically, we can see that construction took place in several phases over more than a thousand years.

Pioneer /ˌpaɪəˈnɪə/

Ex: Arabs were also pioneers in the area of oral hygiene and used a small polishing stick as a toothbrush as early as 100BC.

Timeline /ˈtaɪmlaɪn/

Ex: The timeline below shows this history, with a frenzy of activity from just before 3000 BC through to 1600 BC being responsible for most of what we now gaze upon in awe.

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