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Picking and Article Assignment

 * 1) International Journal of Historical Archaeology
 * 2) This article has no sources, no dates, no people, no nothing and I did a quick google and found a ton on it
 * 3) I would write this article from scratch and add the appropriate sources
 * 4) I like the idea of mostly writing one from scratch
 * 5) Federmesser culture
 * 6) This article has a little lead that explains this culture was upper-paleolithic to mesolithic spanning across Northern France along the coast all the way to Poland and then just stops.
 * 7) There seems to be a science direct article about glacier movements during this time period, and a jstor article about a Federmesser archeology site so there is definitely some reliable sources.
 * 8) Petras
 * 9) This article has very brief and not well written information about this archeology site
 * 10) There are several opportunities to link this article to other wikipedia articles about the city and the history that mentions this site
 * 11) Could also gather more history on the site by finding journal articles on the site
 * 12) Archaeology of Afghanistan
 * 13) This one is confusing to me because I don't understand why there is nothing on here but a few details and then links to other countries that have no information about them.
 * 14) This one could easily be filled with a bunch of information about key archeology sites in the country, a section about the different cultures over time, or about famous Afghan Archeologists.  All of this could then be linked to other wikipedia articles.
 * 15) Would not be hard to get some reliable sources on this article.
 * 16) I think this is the one I want to do.
 * 17) Idea's
 * 18) Kushan site of Hadda
 * 19) Greek site of Ai Khanoum
 * 20) Bronze Age site of Mondigak
 * 21) Buddhist site of Bamiyan
 * 22) Definitely destroyed by the Taliban, could be a whole section about cultural terrorism affecting archeological sites.

History of Archeology in Afghanistan[edit]
Delegation Archaeologique Française en Afghanistan was formed in 1921-22 in an agreement between Afghanistan and France. The French archeologists who conducted research in Afghanistan contributed largely to our current understanding of archeology in Afghanistan and through out the region.

Buddhas of Bamyan
The Bamyan Valley is an extremely fertile river valley surrounded by high cliff walls north of Kabul. The valley lies on the silk road and the region has been heavily influenced by the economic stream of the trade route along with the cultural ideas of those who traveled through. During the 1st century C.E. the Kushans moved out of Bactria during the expansion period of Buddhism and brought their faith to the region. Buddhist monks established a monastery in the cliff walls of the valley and erected the Buddhas of Bamyan in the 5th or 6th century. While the Kushan enjoyed political dominance of the valley and reaped the economic benefits of the Silk Road, life in region was heavily influenced by the Hellenistic Mediterranean as the monastery is filled with Frescos and The mighty Buddhas are shrouded in Roman clothing. In the 13th Century the Mongols committed genocide of the Kushans in the valley and vandalized the Buddhas which would only foreshadow their repeated vandalization culminating in the Buddhas' destruction in 2001 by the Taliban.