Drum

A percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped with a taut membrane over one or both ends

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Ligature

A printed or written character consisting of two or more letters or characters joined together. Two or more signs joined as one - ff, fi, ffi are examples of phonographic ligature. The signs for percent and for fractions are logographic ligatures and the sign & was once a xenographic ligature.

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Burnisher

A tool used to polish the surface of an artifact.

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Burnisher

Mica

Any of a group of hydrous potassium, aluminum silicate minerals that occurs in a glittering, scaly form; widely prized for ornament in prehistory.

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Mica

Pewter

A tin-based alloy used as a material from which domestic utensils were fashioned. The alloy is often 100 parts of tin to 17 of antimony; or 89 tin, 7 antimony, and 2 copper. Tin and zinc, and lead and tin, are sometimes used to make pewter. The use of pewter dates back at least 2,000 years to Rom...

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Pewter

Alfred The Great

King of Wessex, 871-899, a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England. He prevented England from being conquered by the Danish and promoted literature, learning, and literacy - helping to begin an artistic renaissance that flourished for two centuries. Our knowledge of him is known from the Anglo-Saxo...

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Alfred The Great

Kellia

The site of a large Coptic monastic settlement from the 4th-8th centuries AD in the western Nile Delta of Egypt. The pottery makes up an important ceramic assemblage of the Late Roman Period of Egypt.

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Kellia

Trianda

Minoan colony site on Rhodes, founded in the 16th century BC, which facilitated trade between Crete and Cyprus. The site was abandoned in the 14th century.

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Trianda

Asikli Hüyük

(Aşıklı Höyük) An Aceramic Neolithic site in central Anatolia, near an obsidian source (Ciftlik) and probably involved in extracting and trading the material. Radiocarbon dates of unstratified contexts at the site are c 7000-6650 BC. It may have been contemporary with Hacilar.

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Temple Mountain

A form of monument which occurred only in Cambodia from the 9th-13th centuries AD. They are a series of artificial mountains on the Cambodian plain at Angkor, each crowned by shrines containing images of gods and of Khmer kings, their family, and their ancestors. The huge platforms of earth on wh...

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Temple Mountain

Scraper

A retouched flake tool with a thick working edge; a flake tool that has been sharpened on one edge and left blunt on other edges to allow grasping, probably used to scrape (dress) animal hides. It is called a side scraper (racloir) or end scraper (grattoir) depending on the sharpened edge; side s...

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Lithic

Pertaining to or describing a stone tool or artifact. The capitalized term describes the first developmental period in New World chronology, preceding the Archaic period and characterized by the use of flaked stone tools and hunting and gathering subsistence. The combining form means relating to ...

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Lithic

Cultural Environment

Those elements of the habitat created or modified by human cultures; a component of the total environment as seen by cultural ecology.

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Cultural Environment

Bayon

An enormous sandstone monument in northwest Angkor, Cambodia, built c 1200 by the Buddhist king Jayavarman VII (1181-c 1220), the last great ruler of the Khmer empire. It was his temple-mountain and the center of his restored capital Angkor Thom. Bayon had a central circular sanctuary, situated w...

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Bayon

Perimortem

The term used to refer to events or processes that occurred to an individual's body when it cannot be determined whether it was before or after death.

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Perimortem

Data-Flow Diagram

A logical model of an information system depicting its entities, processes, and flow of data between processes.

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Data-Flow Diagram

El-Hammamiya

Site in Upper Egypt with a settlement sequence from the Badarian to the Gerzean.

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El-Hammamiya

Bracelet

An ornamental band or chain worn on the wrist or arm

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Bracelet

Buchau

A Late Bronze Age settlement site in southern Germany with two Urnfield period occupations. There were single-room buildings and a larger two-roomed building in one occupation; the second settlement had nine complexes of large multi-room houses with outbuildings.

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Buchau

La Chapelle

Mousterian cave site in Corrèze, southwest France. In 1908, a skeleton of Neanderthal man was found buried in a level of Mousterian (Quina) type. The La Chapelle man was deformed pathologically by chronic osteo-arthritis and other degenerations often found with old age today. Middle Palaeolithic ...

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La Chapelle

Ply

The strand(s) of material used in the construction of cordage.

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Ply

Cameo Glass

A Roman artifact of layered, multicolored glass with the effect of a cameo cut from onyx. The Portland Vase in the British Museum is an important example.

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Cameo Glass

Silver Leaves

Iron Age site south of the Zambezi River in eastern Transvaal, South Africa, dated to the 3rd-4th centuries AD.

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Silver Leaves

Spherulite

Microscopic, calcareous, or other crystalline particle of spherical geometry.

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Spherulite

Crossbow

A bow made with a crossbow parallel to the arrow and operated by a mechanical trigger release. It was likely invented by the Chinese in the late Chou Dynasty (c 400 BC) for defending their cities. The best-preserved examples were in Ch'u state. Chinese skill in bronze casting enabled them to make...

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Crossbow