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  • Camelid A member of the family that includes camels, llamas, and their relatives, all of which have feet with two toes and thick leathery solesAdded by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Hammerhead Mortarium A mortarium with a rim and flange that form a single unit, shaped like the head of a hammer, its centre meeting the body of the vessel at right angles.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Melka Kontoure A site in Ethiopia some 50 km south of Addis Ababa, with many archaeological levels dating from over 1.5 million years old at the base to late Pleistocene times. Its long stone artifact sequence included Oldowan, Acheulian, Middle Stone Age, and Microlithic Later Stone Age. A few hominid fragment...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names
  • Melka Kontoure Added by archaeologs | Place Names
  • Oxyrhynchus Ancient Greco-Roman town west of the Nile on the left bank of the Bahr Yusuf in Middle Egypt, best known for its papyri texts. Oxyrhynchus was a regional capital which was reasonably prosperous in the Roman period, and developed into a church and monastic center during the Coptic period. A large ...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Sinew Frayer A tool similar in shape to a scraper but with serrated edges, which may have been the forerunner of the saw. Primitive tribes today use similar stones to stroke sinews into fibers for sewing.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Mossgiel The find site of a skeleton with robust cranial morphology on the western plains of New South Wales, Australia. Radiocarbon dating of bone gave an estimate of about 4000 BC.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Uniform Distribution A probability density function whereby all potential observations within a specified range have an equal probability of occurring.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Zinjanthropus Name originally given to a robust Australopithecus found in Bed I at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis Leakey, characterized by unusually massive jaws. Potassium-argon dating suggests that he lived about 1.75 million years ago. This fossil is now classified as Australopithecus boisei or Australo...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Population Estimation The determination by archaeologists of the suspected population of an ancient culture. Estimates of the number of inhabitants of a settlement can be attempted on the basis of the number of houses, number of burials, or population density - but these estimates involve many assumptions.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Archaeological Of, relating to, or concerning archaeology.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Bow An offensive weapon for shooting arrows or missiles and used in hunting and war. It generally consists of a strip of bendable wood or other material with a string stretched between its two ends. The arrow or missile is shot by the recoil after retraction of the string. The weapon was first used i...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Yang Shao The most important Neolithic culture of China, distributed along the middle course of the Yellow River in north-central China and dated to c 5000-2700 BC. Large open settlements of circular or rectangular houses slightly sunk into the ground cluster along the loess river terraces. It is distingui...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Megaloceros An extinct giant elk of the Pleistocene ('giant deer'), whose best-known species M. giganteus was abundant in Ireland, Europe, and western Asia. It had the largest antlers of any deer known - some 13 feet (4 m) across. Its remains are sometimes found in Palaeolithic assemblages and there are rare...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Mesolithic A time period in human history beginning with the retreat of glacial ice c 8500 BC and the changing climatic conditions following it; a development in northwestern Europe that lasted until about 2700 BC. This Middle Stone Age followed the Upper Paleolithic and preceded the Neolithic. It was a per...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Arroyo A dry gully or steep-sided bed of a seasonal stream. The term is also used for a rivulet or stream.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Terra Amata Lower Palaeolithic site in Nice, France, with occupation from the Mindel glaciation c 380,000 BP through 11 total levels. The levels are ascribed to the Acheulian, but few tools or handaxes have been recovered.Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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  • Molluscan Analysis The analysis of molluscan remains, of both marine and land species, as part of the examination of the environment of man. A mollusk/mollusc is any of a large phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals (as snails, clams, or squids) with a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a calcareous shell...Added by archaeologs | English|Others
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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
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  • 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
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  • Mug A large cup, typically cylindrical and with a handleAdded by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery
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  • 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
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