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One thing I'll point out is that there are indications in a few potentially apocryphal sources that Pilate himself may have converted at some point, he most certainly protected the early Christians in Jerusalem and those regions under his control (see Acts), resisting multiple attempts from the...

There are actually competing theories as to the origins of the Aztecs, although there are some similarities in the cultures of the Southwest and Aztec culture there are also massive differences. For example, in the various Southwest cultures human sacrifice was not really a thing, instead they...

There's considerable overlap. Copper/gold artifacts are part of the extremely fuzzy dividing line and sometimes you have to consider surrounding cultures (in cases where Group A is working with bronze but has a trade relationship with Group B who is still working primarily with stone, when then...

Correct, and the transition from Neolithic to the various later 'technologies' is very fuzzy at times. You'll still have late Neolithic stone tools being made and used alongside early metal tools, for example. And metal technology advanced in very odd ways (strangely enough, the Egyptians...

*Anthropologist hat on* I love these snazzy hats! The Stone Age is actually divided into three periods, based on the types of tools and the relative complexity of society. The reason it's called the Stone Age is because of the preponderance of stone tools among surviving artifacts, as they...

They mostly had. There were remnants leftover, of course, and successor civilizations, but all of them peaked well before the Europeans arrived. There were a series of massive droughts in the region in this period which devastated agriculture, and these civilizations just did not have the...

OK, going to put on my anthropology hat here... one moment. *comes back with a snazzy hat on* Stories of great lost cultures in the Southwest are generally that of the Anasazi or Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi is used by the Navajo, meaning 'ancient enemy', the modern day Pueblo hate that term)...