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  • Palermo Major city of Sicily, on the northwest coast of the island, which has been continuously occupied for two and a half millennia. The Phoenicians established a port of the site by the 8th century BC, and from the 5th century BC the city was controlled by Carthage. The Romans captured Palermo in 254 ...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Ancient Dna Genetic material preserved in the archaeological remains of bones and plants that can be studied for past genetic relationshipsAdded by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Urewe Ware Characteristic Early Iron Age pottery type of the interlacustrine region of East Africa: southwest Kenya, northwest Tanzania, Rwanda, east Zaire, and south Uganda. It dates from the last centuries BC to the first centuries AD and is the name of a tradition of the Chifumbaze complex. Urewe ware wa...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery, Place Names
  • Urewe Ware Added by archaeologs | Ancient Pottery, Place Names
  • Paleosol A soil profile that is buried under subsequently deposited sediment.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Krems An Upper Palaeolithic site on the Danube in northeast Austria, dating to around 35,200 bp. The Krems-Hundssteig locality has revealed a very rich Aurignacian-like assemblage in which numerous bladelets, endscrapers, retouched blades, and 'Krems' points were found. A female figurine of green serpe...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Mazapan Ware A ceramic style developing out of Coyotlatelco and first appearing in association with major architecture at Tula, Mexico in the post-Classic Toltec phase (9th-12th century AD). The orange-on-buff (or red-on-buff) pottery was decorated by straight or wavy parallel lines produced by multiple brushes.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery
  • Mazapan Ware Added by archaeologs | Ancient Pottery
  • Mug A large cup, typically cylindrical and with a handleAdded by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery
  • Mug Added by archaeologs | Ancient Pottery
  • Fontbouïsse A Chalcolithic (Copper Age) settlement site in Gard, France, which has given its name to a style of pottery decorated with channeled decoration arranged usually in metopic or concentric semicircle patterns. Fontbouïsse ware is widespread in southern France, occurring in chamber bombs, village sit...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names
  • Fontbouïsse Added by archaeologs | Place Names
  • Sign Non-figurative representations found engraved or painted in Palaeolithic parietal art, including tectiforms (hut shapes) and claviforms (club shapes) which may be ethnic markers.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
  • Sign Added by archaeologs | Others
  • Yanik Tepe Tell site near Tabriz, Iran, with evidence of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, and Iron Age occupations. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dating from the late-7th millennium BC. The earliest pottery was undecorated, but painted wares appeared in the ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names
  • Yanik Tepe Added by archaeologs | Place Names
  • Aceramic Without pottery or not using pottery. This term is applied to periods and societies in which pottery is not used, especially in contrast to other periods of ceramic use and with neighboring ceramic cultures. Aceramic societies may use bark, basketry, gourds, leather, etc. for containers.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Valencia Ceramic complex of red-colored jars, one of the best known in Venezuela and found on a number of mound sites in north central part of country. The shapes of huge human figurines with flat, wide heads are very distinctive. Typically the pottery is coarse and sand- or mica-tempered. Decoration may ...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Lydion In Greek antiquity, a type of pot for perfumes. Numerous examples have been found in Lydia, western Turkey, and Athens.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery
  • Lydion Added by archaeologs | Ancient Pottery
  • Aharoni, Yohanan An Israeli archaeologist who worked at Arad, Lachish, and Beersheba.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Oxus Treasure A collection of Persian art of the Achaemenidian period (6th-4th century BC) now in the British Museum, London. It was discovered in 1877 on the bank of the Oxus River near the present Afghanistan-Russian border. This large hoard of gold and silver metalwork included a variety of jewelry, ornamen...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Smith's Hoard Added by archaeologs | Others
  • Elgin, Lord British diplomat known for obtaining permission to remove the marble metopes from the Parthenon in Athens to London. Since 1816 these sculptures, known as the 'Elgin marbles' have been housed in the British Museum. The removal of these sculptures from their source has often been criticized as par...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Pyrotechnology The intentional use and control of fire by humans.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Foundation Deposit A collection of objects buried within the walls or under the floors of a building to ensure the goodwill of the gods to the householder(s).Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Deposition Any of the various processes by which artifacts move from active use to an archaeological context, such as loss, disposal, abandonment, burial, etc. It is the laying, placing, or throwing down of any material. In geology, it is the constructive process of accumulation into beds, veins, or irregul...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Birsmatten A site in the Bern district of Switzerland, Basis-Grotte, that has one of the longest known sequences of Mesolithic deposits. There are several levels of Sauveterrian and Tardenoisian occupation and extensive human remains.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names
  • Birsmatten Added by archaeologs | Place Names
  • Le Croy Point An Early Archaic bifurcate, chipped-stone projectile point of the US Southeast, small- or medium-sized with short triangular blades. They are dated c 6500-6000 BC and found in Ohio and Tennessee river drainages and north to the Great Lakes.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Antler Sleeve A section of deer antler carved into a cavity or hole at one end to hold a stone ax head. The piece was either set into a socket in a haft or perforated to attach to the haft. This material was used for its resilience and shock-absorbing value in tool-making. Roughly trimmed antler picks have bee...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Layard, Sir Austen Henry British excavator and explorer - one of the earliest in Mesopotamia. His most important discoveries were at Nimrud, which he identified wrongly as Nineveh. The Assyrian winged bulls and reliefs he excavated from the massive palace complexes are now in the British Museum. At Nineveh proper (modern...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
  • Layard, Sir Austen Henry Added by archaeologs | Others
  • Parallel Flaking A secondary flaking technique that is often found on the earliest projectile points and stone tools, usually performed on the blade faces, in which the removal of flakes was performed in such a manner to remove flakes of similar size, depth, length and direction to result in flake scars which are...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Vaisselle Blanche A type of ceramics made in the Aceramic Neolithic (PPNB) of Syria, Lebanon, and east bank of the Jordan River. It was white, made from lime mixed with ashes, air-dried, and sometimes painted in bands.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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