Scaled Drawing

Standardized rendering used to record archaeological data, especially during data acquisition. It would include elevation, isometric, perspective, plan, profile, and section drawings.

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Carnarvon Gorge

An area of Queensland, Australia, known for its stenciled rock art. There are also engravings and paintings. Cathedral Cave has occupation deposits.

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Carnarvon Gorge

Taiga

Sub-arctic boreal forest; open coniferous forest in the northern latitudes. Taiga grows on swampy ground that is commonly covered with lichen. It is the characteristic vegetation of the subpolar region spanning northern Eurasia, between the colder tundra zone to the north and the warmer temperate...

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Qandahar

Site in Afghanistan with Classical associations containing pottery of the Timurid period late 14th-15th century AD.

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Qandahar

Western Zhou Period

A division of the Zhou/Chou Dynasty, 1027-771 BC, the earlier part of the Zhou dynasty, starting with the fall of the Shang dynasty. The first Zhou/Chou rulers parceled out their expanding territory among feudal lords. As the feudal states rose in power and independence, so did the central Zhou/C...

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Warendorf

Migration Period settlement in Westphalia, West Germany, of the 7th-9th centuries. A range of building types is laid out in nucleated groups; other buildings in a typical unit consist of barns and outhouses, stables, octagonal- and hexagonal-shaped silos, haystacks, and a variety of sunken-hut wo...

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Clay

Soil particles of less than 0.005 millimeters in diameter or rock composed mainly of clay particles. There are ceramic clays, clay shales, mudstones, glacial clays, deep-sea clays, and soils - which are plastic when wet and hard when dry. No other natural material has so wide an importance or suc...

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Nebuchadnezzar Ii

The most famous of the kings of Babylon, the second of that name. His father, Nabopolassar, ejected the Assyrians to restore Babylon's independence and to found Chaldaea or the Neo-Babylonian kingdom in 626 BC. Nebuchadnezzar extended these conquests to the Mediterranean, capturing Jerusalem twic...

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Codex

Any handwritten manuscript of the Scriptures, either Christian or in Mesoamerica before the Spanish conquest. In Mesoamerica, these documents were written and painted in hieroglyphic or pictographic characters on bark paper of animal skin and they contain information about pre-Columbian and post-...

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Codex

Korpach

Upper Palaeolithic site on the Prut River of Moldova, with its lowest layer dated to 25,250 bp. The assemblage has tools of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.

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Korpach

Nal

A cultural group named after the site of Sohr Damb (Red Mound), near the village of Nal in central Baluchistan, Pakistan. It is related to the Kulli culture further south and is dated to the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. Both settlements are associated with water-control systems which allo...

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Nal

Tagalagal

Neolithic site in northeast Niger dating to c 9300 bp. Burin-like flakes, arrowheads, and grinding tools have been found and ceramics with some of the oldest dates in the Sahara.

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Tagalagal

Medallion

A large medal

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Medallion

Tephrochronology

A method for the relative dating of horizons in volcanic regions by identification of different layers of ash (tephra). Tephra layers (beds) are ideal stratigraphic markers because they are deposited instantaneously. Also, the chemical content of tephra (volcanic ash) is unique for each eruption....

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Tephrochronology

Ecological Community

The different biotic species of a specific region and the network of interrelationships that exists among them.

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Ecological Community

Ulu Leang

Important rock shelter in the Maros region of southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, with a sequence c 8000-6000 BC in the early Holocene. It illustrates the development of the Toalian microlithic industry, with flake and bone tools.

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Ulu Leang

Fort Ancient

A series of cultures along the Ohio River and its tributaries, dating to 900-1600 AD. There was developed agriculture, platform and burial mounds, and palisaded houses with a Mississippian influence.

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Delos

A small island in the Aegean, in the middle of the Cyclades, the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. There was an important sanctuary which contained a colossal marble kouros and a sanctuary of Artemis with a temple. There are four main groups of ruins on the western coast: the commercial port and ...

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Cordoned Urn

A type of middle Bronze Age pottery found mainly in the northern parts of the British Isles during the 2nd millennium BC, probably derived from COLLARED URNS. Cordoned urns are generally tall straight-sided vessels with a flat base, slightly flaring body and a simple rim. Their name derives from ...

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Lur

A Late Bronze Age, large bronze musical horn or trumpet, having a double curve and a disk-shaped, permanent mouth. The long curving tube was cast in sections by the lost-wax (cire perdue) method and fit together, ending in a flat metal disk decorated with raised embossing. Lurer come from the pea...

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Lur

Plaited

Basketry made with both a horizontal and a vertical stitch or weft - like a braid. The weave is basically the same in both directions.

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Plaited

Open Association

An assumed relationship between two or more artifacts that are found together, when it cannot be proved that they were deposited together.

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Open Association

Gleying

The process of waterlogging of soil in which iron is bacterially reduced under anaerobic conditions. Gleying may result from a raised water table or from impeded drainage within the soil profile - especially in bogs, fens, floodplains, lakes, and swamps. The soil is blue, gray, or olive in colori...

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Hunamni

A Mumun pottery site in Korea with pit houses dated to between 3280-2520 bp. The houses yielded carbonized rice, foxtail millet, barley, sorghum, and soybeans - probably the earliest agricultural remains on the peninsula.

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Hunamni

Microwave Radar

Frequencies that propagate in straight lines like light rays, bouncing energy off remote objects, with the resultant reflected energy analyzable to determine the presence and type of an object.

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Microwave Radar