Quentovic

Habuba Al-Kabira

A fortified site on the Euphrates River in Syria, representing an outpost of Uruk culture in the 4th millennium BC, probably as a trading center. There was a large walled town with pottery, seals, numerical tablets that are southern Mesopotamian in character.

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Habuba Al-Kabira

Sambor Prei Kuk

Early historic center southeast of Angkor, Cambodia, likely the capital of the pre-Angkor Khmer state of Isanapura (7th-8th centuries AD).

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Pemmican

Preserved buffalo meat that was dried in strips by Native Americans. It could be cut up and mixed with melted fat to be eaten. Across the subarctic, people preserved meat by drying and pounding it together with fat and berries to make pemmican.

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Pemmican

Armorican Coin

Collective name for coinage issued by a range of tribes living in Brittany during the early 1st century BC, including the Coriosolites, Baiocasses, Redones, Unelli, and Osismii.

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Armorican Coin

Abydos Ware

Pottery of Canaanite (Syro-Palestinian) origin found in the royal tombs of the First and Second Dynasties (The Old Kingdom) at Abydos, Saqqara, Abusir el-Melek, and other sites in Upper Egypt, dating to Early Bronze Age II (3300-2700 BCE). The pottery, often red-rose slipped and burnished or pain...

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Abydos Ware

Kouros

A Greek statue of a youth or a standing nude male youth, of the Archaic Period. The large stone figures began to appear in Greece about 615-590 BC It was a funerary marker or dedication in a sanctuary. They are usually larger than lifesize; made of marble, bronze, or alabaster, and could be paint...

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Kouros

Ai Bunar

A site with three copper mines, located near Stara Zagora in central Bulgaria. The open-cast mining of malachite ore beds dates to the 4th millennium BC (Karanovo VI period) and was later used in the Late Bronze Age. Quantities of this ore have been discovered in settlements in Moldavia and the U...

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Ai Bunar

Alaca Hüyük

[Alacahuyuk, Alacahüyük, Alacahöyük] A tell site in north central Turkey, near Boghaz Köy and 150 km east of Ankara, that was occupied in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd millennia BC. Its Chalcolithic and Copper Age phases include a cemetery of 13 extremely rich tombs from c 2500 BC (Early Bronze Age II). ...

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Alaca Hüyük

Funerary Cult

Any of a number of ongoing rituals, with their associated offerings, performed for the benefit of the deceased at the tomb or in a funerary temple. Cults were mainly made up of relatives or specially appointed priests. Funerary or mortuary temples were the shrines for the funerary cults of dead k...

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Funerary Cult

Romanelli

A large coastal cave in Apulia, Italy, occupied in the Palaeolithic period. Over a beach of last Interglacial date came some Mousterian deposits and a series of Upper Palaeolithic (c 12,000 BP) deposits of 'Romanellian' type. There are engraved art objects in these layers and on the walls, and sk...

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Romanelli

Funerary Monument

In many cultures and civilizations the tomb was superseded by, or coexisted with, monuments or memorials to the dead. This foreshadowed a general revival of the Greek practice of erecting funerary monuments, rather than tombs, during the 16th century.

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Funerary Monument

Trondheim

Third largest city of Norway, founded in 997 by King Olaf I Tryggvason as the village of Kaupangr. He built a church and a royal residence, Kongsgård, there and it became the great medieval capital of Norway. Located along the ice-free Trondheim Fjord, it commanded land and sea routes to Russia a...

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Trondheim

Type Site

A site that establishes the typical content of a particular culture, taken as characteristic of a given cultural group. Often, it is the site on which that group was first recognized. An example is al-Badari, the type site of the Badarian culture.

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Type Site

Kongemose

Mesolithic culture of southern Scandinavia centered on the type site lake settlement of Kongemosen in Zealand. It dates to the late Boreal and early Atlantic, c 5600-5000 bc, between the Maglemosian and Ertebolle. Artifacts include geometric art, large blades, axes, and bone points.

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Kongemose

Amphitheatre

A large-scale Roman arena open to the elements and surrounded by tiers of seats. They were constructed for exhibiting gladiatorial and other public spectacles (military displays, combats, and wild beast fights) to the populace. The earliest were oval and built of wood, later changing to stone con...

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Amphitheatre

Dosimeter

A device to measure the amount of gamma radiation emitted by sediments. The device is buried in a stratum for a year to record the annual dose of radiation

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Dosimeter

Philia

Type site for Chalcolithic III culture in northern Cyprus, mid-3rd millennium BC. It is characterized by red polished pottery.

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Philia

Pit

An area (hole, shaft, cavity) dug out by humans for storage, food preparation, refuse disposal, etc. These include are storage pits/silos, rubbish dumps or 'borrow pits', and remains of pit dwellings. When left undisturbed by man, pits erode and fill, in a similar sequence to ditches. Frequently ...

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Pit

Specific Evolution

The localized social and ecological adjustments that cause specific cultures to differ from one another as they adapt to their own unique environments. The increasing adaptive specializations that improve the chances for survival of species, cultures, or individuals.

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Specific Evolution

Phaskon

Greek vessel of a flattened ovoid form, with a long spout, and a handle at the top, like the askos.

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Phaskon

Dereivka

A Late Neolithic settlement site located on the river Omifinev in the Ukraine and dated to the 3rd millennium BC. A site of the Sredni Stog culture includes a cemetery of the Mariupol type, with 100+ extended inhumations arranged in groups. Adjacent to the cemetery is the settlement with Dnieper-...

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Dereivka

Aubrey, John

An antiquarian and writer who studied and wrote detailed accounts of the monuments at Avebury and Stonehenge. He was the first to recognize the circle of 56 pits now known as the Aubrey holes within the bank at Stonehenge. His literary and scientific interests won him a fellowship of the Royal So...

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Aubrey, John

Recycle

To convert (waste) into reusable material

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Recycle

Parian Marble

Marble from quarries on the island of Paros, Greece, which is white in color, close-grained, and peculiarly suitable for sculpture: it was widely used by the leading sculptors throughout the Mediterranean world.

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Parian Marble

Maudslay, Alfred Percival

British soldier who was one of the first people to visit and make a scientific record of the great Maya sites. Inspired by travelers' accounts of the ruins, he visited Guatemala and the neighboring republics, and by 1894 had made seven expeditions. He made photographs, casts, plans, and drawings ...

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