Statement of Significance - Global Hallmarks

We are now living in an amazing period of scientific advancements, of investigation and discovery, archaeology is no exception to this. With easy access to research papers, maps, diagrams and photographs, it has become more and more apparent that some, if not most, of the older structures we find follow a set of rules. A specific matrix of design that is not accidental, nor is it the result of nearly, if not simultaneous, independent, localized developments in engineering and architecture, that happen to be the same or extremely similar.