Novo Mesto

Early Iron Age settlement and complex of tumuli in Slovenia and dated to the Hallstatt D (5th century BC). A stone wall encircled the settlement and 10 tumuli have been excavated. Bronze situlae, breastplates, and helmets and objects of Baltic amber have been found.

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Novo Mesto

Cumae

An ancient city, probably the oldest Greek mainland colony in the west, and home of the Sibyline Oracle (Greek prophetess), described by Virgil in the opening of the sixth book of the Aeneid. Located on a hill on the Italian coast west of Naples, it was founded about 750 BC by Greeks, though ther...

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Cumae

Kesslerloch

Magdalenian reindeer-hunting cave site in Switzerland that was occupied during a cold phase of the final Glaciation. There are bone harpoons and spearthrowers, art objects such as an engraving of a rutting reindeer, and a stone tool kit of borers.

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Kesslerloch

Aleria

An island colony in eastern Corsica, founded from Phocaea (Turkey) in the 6th century BC. There are similarities to Etrusca in the tombs and Etruscan artifacts.

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Aleria

Korakou

Bronze Age site of Corinthia, Greece, which became the basis of the classification of Helladic pottery developed by Carl Blegen and Alan Wace. It is the type site for the Early Helladic II Korakou culture.

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Korakou

Monitor Valley

A high-altitude area in the central Great Basin (Nevada); the location of Gatecliff Shelter.

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Monitor Valley

Regional System

Any system of time divisions such as those used in the Americas, based on major technological or social changes that produced regional cultures rather than local ones.

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Regional System

Procurement

Any process by which materials are obtained from the environment, such as the collecting of plant foods. Much of animal evolution involves adaptation for the procurement of food

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Procurement

Rebus

A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words or the syllables of which they are composed. These are signs that are a sort of punning logogram in which the picture of something easy to draw represents something which is difficult to draw but the na...

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Rebus

Field

A space in a file dedicated to the storage of information about a particular attribute.

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Field

Jetis

Geological formation on the Brantas River of east Java with remains of early Pleistocene fauna and Homo erectus remains (Mojokerto child) dating c 1.5 million years BP and earlier.

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Jetis

Lupemban

A stone industry of the Lower Palaeolithic of west-central Africa, developed from a Sangoan predecessor and characterized by tools appropriate for rough woodwork. Lupemban is found in northern Angola and southern Zaire and an important dated site is at Kalambo Falls on the Zambia/Tanzania border....

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Lupemban

Ring-Headed Pin

Bronze or iron dress-fitting comprising a slender shaft typically 5-10cm in length with a point at one end, while the other end has been bent round onto itself to form a loop or ring. Found in middle and later Iron Age contexts in the British Isles.

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Ring-Headed Pin

Vertical Face Trenching

An excavation strategy in which archaeologists expose a vertical face from the ground surface to sterile soil before excavating individual strata across the length of the trench.

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Vertical Face Trenching

Anghelu Ruju

A Copper Age necropolis in Alghero, northwest Sardinia. It contained 36 rock-cut tombs, some very elaborate in plan and decorated with carved bulls' heads. The tombs were used for multiple burials and contained material of the Ozieri culture (copper and silver objects) as well as Ozieri and Beake...

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Anghelu Ruju

Strelice

Small settlement site of the Late Neolithic Lengyel culture in central Moravia, Czechoslovakia and dated to the mid-4th millennium BC. The rich middle Lengyel ritual assemblage included a fired-clay house model showing timber posts and a pitched roof, and the largest group of anthropomorphic figu...

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Strelice

Agade

An ancient city of southern Mesopotamia, founded by Sargon (2334-2279 BC) as his capital. Its location is uncertain.

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Agade

Kheker Frieze

The name of a decorative motif common in ancient Egyptian architecture from at least as early as the 3rd Dynasty (2686-2613 BC): rows of knots in decorative carved or painted friezes around the upper edges of buildings.

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Kheker Frieze

Bifacial Foliate

A class of artifact comprised of leaf-shaped stone tools with complete or nearly complete flaking on both sides.

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Bifacial Foliate

Fetter

A shackle for the feet

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Fetter

Blattspitzen

A category of stone artifact with complete or nearly complete flaking on both sides and points at one or both ends. They are found in some late Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic industries of central and eastern Europe.

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Blattspitzen

Determinative

An indication of which category of objects or beings is in question. In hieroglyphic writing, an ideographic sign next to a word phonetically represented, for the purpose of defining its meaning.

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Determinative

Nome

An administrative unit or province of ancient Egypt, each consisting of a town or group of villages with its own guardian deity, district governor (nomarch), and symbol or standard. There were 42-44 such provinces in Egypt, varying over the course of the centuries, which ancient Egyptians called ...

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Nome

Boucher

French archaeologist and writer who was the first to develop the idea that prehistory could be measured on the basis of periods of geological time. In 1837, in the Somme Valley, he discovered flint hand axes and other stone tools along with the bones of extinct mammals in deposits of the Pleistoc...

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Boucher

Koszider

Three large hoards found at Dunapentele-Kosziderpadlá, on the Danube south of Budapest, Hungary. The contents were characteristic of an early phase of the Tumulus culture of the (Early) Bronze Age and serve to document the expansion of that culture (Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany) c 140...

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Koszider