Chest Punch

A purported device for removing flutes from Clovis and Folsom tools.

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Chest Punch

Polynesian Outliers

Communities occupying the 19 small islands to windward (east) of the large Melanesian islands of the Solomons, New Hebrides, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and on the southern fringes of Micronesia. Archaeology and linguistics suggest settlement by a back-movement from western Polynesia (Samoa, Futuna, ...

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Polynesian Outliers

Belbasi

A cave on the southern coast of Anatolia which gave its name to a late Palaeolithic culture. The tool kit includes tanged arrowheads, triangular points, and obliquely truncated blades. There are rock engravings in shelters such as Beldibi, the only known cave art in western Asia.

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Belbasi

Biosphere

The regions of the earth's crust and atmosphere that are occupied by living organisms; also, all of the earth's living organisms interacting with the physical environment.

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Biosphere

Hofheim-Type Flagon

A single or double-handled flagon with a cylindrical neck and outcurved rim, triangular in section; named after types from the mid 1st century AD military site at Hofheim, Germany.

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Hofheim-Type Flagon

Olynthus

Ancient city of northern Greece, captured and destroyed by Philip of Macedon in 348 BC. Some late Neolithic settlement is followed after a gap by Iron Age occupation by Thracian tribes, perhaps from about 1000 BC. The 5th-4th centuries BC saw the classical Greek town caught up in alliances, misal...

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Olynthus

Nea Nikomedeia

An Early Neolithic tell settlement in Macedonia in northern Greece. From a large structure (shrine?) in the center of the mound, there were terra-cotta female figurines thought to have been used in rituals. The remains of rectangular mud houses, a number of crouched burials, and plain and painted...

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Nea Nikomedeia

Saddle Quern

Ancient device for milling by pounding, a round stone rolled or rubbed on a flat stone bed. It is the earliest-known example, along with the mortar and pestle, of milling equipment and invented in Neolithic times (before 5600 BC). It consisted of a large, slightly concave, lower stone and a small...

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Saddle Quern

Haddenham

A Neolithic long barrow in Cambridgeshire, England, important for its being an example of the type of wooden structures which may have existed in non-megalithic long mounds of northern Europe. The site was covered by fen peat, thus preserving the original barrow in waterlogged conditions.

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Haddenham

Rio Seco

Large preceramic site of c 2500 BC on north central coast of Peru with two large pyramids, rectangular ground level and subterranean structures. It dates to the Pre-Ceramic Period VI and the earliest structures were an isolated group of house compounds. Some of these were later filled with rubble...

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Rio Seco

Kazanlik

A large Neolithic, Copper Age (Eneolithic), and Early Bronze Age tell in the Valley of Roses, southern Bulgaria. The stratigraphy includes a Karanovo I occupation; Veselinovo occupation levels; Karanovo V-VI layers (with a stone wall enclosing the site at the end of this period), and an Early Bro...

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Kazanlik

Specularia

Window panes made with a kind of transparent stone (lapis specularis).

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Specularia

Illapa

One of the divisions of the temple of the Sun (the sun god was Inti) among the ancient Inca, literally meaning 'thunder'.

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Illapa

Kamikuroiwa

A Jomon rock shelter on Shikoku, Japan with pottery radiocarbon-dated to the late 11th millennium BC, similar to that at Fukui and Sempukuji. It is associated with bifacial points rather than with microblades. Incised flat pebbles representing human females were also found - the earliest portable...

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Kamikuroiwa

Tank

A large container or reservoir for liquids or gases.

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Tank

Kentauros

In Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. It had a human head and arms and upper body and the four legs and lower body of a horse.

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Kentauros

Tomahawk

A light ax formerly used as a tool or weapon by Native Americans

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Tomahawk

Shivering

A pottery defect caused by compressive stress, resulting in incomplete coverage or peeling of the glaze

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Shivering

Pentelic Marble

White marble quarried from Pentelikon (Mount Pentelicus) mountain in Attica, Greece, and used for public buildings such as the Parthenon. . These provided excellent marble for most of the buildings and sculptures of Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Phidias, Praxiteles, and other Greek scul...

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Pentelic Marble

Stem

The extension of the base of a projectile point or knife which was designed for hafting or gripping. Stems can occur in various shapes. hafting method at base where flint extends in a central column

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Stem

Pararaton

A Javanese chronicle dating from the end of the 15th century, but containing detailed biographies of kings and persons of their entourage, and accounts of the scandals and dramas of the court.

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Pararaton

Noailles Graver

The Grotte de Noailles, close to Brive, Corrèze, southwest France, which has given its name to a small multiple burin - an Upper Palaeolithic flake tool retouched to give several chisellike edges. The Noailles burin distinguishes a facies of the Upper Perigordian or Noaillian, dating to c 27,000 ...

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Noailles Graver

Kissonerga-Mylouthkia

Early Chalcolithic site in western Cyprus of the mid-4th millennium BC.

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Kissonerga-Mylouthkia

Piece Esquillee

A type of flaked stone artifact manufactured by the bipolar percussion technique. Generally characterized by a lenticular or wedge-shaped cross-section; opposed bifacial crushing, battering and hinge-fracturing; and frequently relatively long columnar blade-like flake scars.

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Piece Esquillee

Colossus

A gigantic statue or image of the human form, usually of a king but also of private individuals and gods. They are typically set up outside the gates or pylons of temples. The term was originally applied by Herodotus to those of Egypt. The most famous is the bronze statue of Apollo at Rhodes, one...

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Colossus