In the Neolithic Period, by the mid-4th millennium bce, jade from Lake Tai (in Jiangsu province) began to be used by southeastern culture groups, while deposits along the Liao River in the northeast (called "Xiuyan jade," probably bowenite) were utilized by the Hongshan culture.
The earliest population of Celtiberia was that of the southeastern Almería culture of the Bronze Age, after which came Hallstatt invaders, who occupied the area shortly before 600 bc.
Or else the "Thinker," for instance, is the image of you, me, the archaeologists and historians confronted and perplexed by a "lost" culture in southeastern Europe that had quite a go with life back before a single word was written or a wheel turned.
Olmec civilization subsequently disappeared or was transformed into one or more of the cultures of the southeastern lowlands.
Occupation of the Monte Albán site continued uninterrupted, but ceramic evidence for Monte Albán II culture indicates that cultural influences from southeastern Mexico were reaching the Zapotec people.
The Penkovka culture people inhabited the southeastern part, from Seversky Donets to the lower Danube (including the region where the Antes would be), and the Kolochin culture was located north of the more eastern area of the Penkovka culture (the upper Dnieper and Desna basins).
An analysis of the transplantation of German culture from the Rhine to southeastern Pennsylvania in the 18th century.
The Mississippian cultures, the most advanced in the southeastern region of pre-Columbian North America, arrived about 1100 ce with their complex society, villages, and earthen mound-building; they disappeared soon after European contact in the 16th century, however.
Southeastern Europe has been a crossroads for several cultures since Paleolithic times and the Balkans, specifically, would have been part of the route used by Neolithic farmers to enter Europe.
A quiet land rush is under way among the buttes of southeastern Wyoming, and it is changing the local rancher culture.
