Expanding

In lithics, referring to the width of a stem or point that is getting larger or wider

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Expanding

Rejuvenated Core

A core that has been given a new platform once it has become difficult or impossible to remove flakes or blades from the previous one.

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Rejuvenated Core

Formative

A cultural stage in North America when agriculture and village settlement were developed, accompanied by pottery, weaving, stonecarving, and ceremonial objects and architecture. In the New World, especially Mesoamerica, it is also called the Pre-Classic period and preceded the Classic period. The...

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Adena Point

A widespread Native American culture of the Early Woodland period in the Ohio Valley (US) and named after the Adena Mounds of Ross County. It is known for its ceremonial and complex burial practices involving the construction of mounds and by a high level of craftwork and pottery. It is dated fro...

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Adena Point

Rock-Shelter

A natural cave with a roof of overlying rock that extends beyond the sides of the cave; a cave that is formed by a ledge of overhanging rock. Such a shallow cave or cliff overhang was used by humans to provide shelter from the elements, especially hunters and gatherers. The shelter is not deep en...

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Rock-Shelter

Terrace

A bench or step that extends along the side of a valley and represents a former level of the valley floor. Terraces are flat surfaces preserved in valleys that represent floodplains developed when the river flowed at a higher elevation than at present. Another type of terrace is cut into bedrock ...

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Cortes De Navarra

An Urnfield settlement site of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages near Sargossa in the Ebro Valley of northern Spain. Narrow, rectangular mudbrick houses were arranged in rows on terraces and the site is actually a tell. Some archaeologists regard the appearance of such traits in southern France...

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Cortes De Navarra

Eutresis

A settlement site in Boeotia, central Greece, first occupied in Middle, Late, and sub-Neolithic, but the most important occupation was of the Bronze Age beginning c 3450 BC. The Middle Helladic seems here to have carried on late, unaffected by the Late Helladic of the Mycenaeans elsewhere. The si...

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Eutresis

Holt Ware

Pottery made at the legionary works depot at Holt, Denbighshire, in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. Of light-red and buff fabric, often imitating Samian forms, and found mostly in Chester and adjacent areas

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Holt Ware

Vault

A type of roofing in stone or brick using the principle of gravity to lock the materials together. The barrel vault is continuous and of semicircular section; in the rib vault, the weight of the roof is carried by ribs. The evolution of the vault begins with the discovery of the arch, because the...

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Polis

An ancient Greek city-state - a state incorporating a city, smaller towns and villages. The polis centered on one town, but included the surrounding countryside. The town contained a citadel on raised ground (acropolis) and a marketplace (agora). The city-state in Greece probably originated from ...

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Nubian C Group

The conventional designation of the indigenous population of Nubia in the late 3rd millennium BC. There is disagreement as to the extent to which these people were the direct descendants of the preceding Nubian A Group population. There are apparent connections between the C Group and contemporar...

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Nubian C Group

Qijia

Protohistoric culture of northwest China, successor to the Yanshao, and named after the site of Qijiaping in the Tao River valley. Qijia is contemporaneous with the Longshan and early Shang cultures of c 2000 BC. Qijia pottery is sometimes painted and often seems to copy metal vessels. Many simpl...

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Qijia

Scope Of Work

Definition of the amount, type, extent, and location of work that can be done under a given contract.

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Scope Of Work

Staroselje

Middle Palaeolithic rock shelter in the Crimea with artifacts (scrapers, bifacial foliates) and faunal remains (arctic fox, reindeer, wild ass). The skeleton of a child and bones of an adult are modern humans, which is problematic in relation to the dates of the artifacts and faunal remains.

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Staroselje

Tessellated

A Roman floor or other surface decorated with tesserae; inlaid or mosaic work composed of tesserae.

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Tessellated

Chancay

In central Peru, a distinctive type of pottery made by the Chancay people between 1000-1500 AD (from Late Intermediate Period). It is black-on-white with parallel or checkered design, sometimes with biomorphic figures or painted in soft colors. The most common forms were tall, two-handled, egg-sh...

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Chancay

Bog Body

A human body preserved in waterlogged conditions such that skin and hair often survive even though most internal organs and bones decay. Clothing also sometimes survives in such circumstances.

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Bog Body

Ethnohistory

The study of non-Western cultures using evidence from documentary sources and oral traditions. In areas where prehistoric and nonliterate cultures have survived into historical times, it is possible to reconstruct history before contact with literate populations through the study of myth and oral...

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Ethnohistory

Fish Hook

Artifact of two basic types: bait hook and lure hook. Varied in form throughout the Pacific, they are made of bone, shell, tortoise shell, or wood.

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Fish Hook

Pipe Stem

The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.

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Pipe Stem

Ozark

A cultural area named after Ozark Hills of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. An Archaic culture, called Grove phase and dating before 5000 BC, was probably ancestral to the Bluff-Dweller sites of Ozark area. Occupied in this millennium, it consists of rock shelters, caves, and open sites. Baskets...

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Ozark

Homo Sapiens

The modern human species, possibly evolving out of Neanderthal Man, with the archaic Homo sapiens dating to between c 100,000-33,000 years ago (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and the oldest-known anatomically modern Homo sapiens fossils dating between 130,000-80,000 years ago. Modern man - a larg...

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Homo Sapiens

Disparity

A bias in a date that occurs when the dated event is younger than the target event and age is underestimated.

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Disparity

Soldering

Method for joining two or more pieces of metal together using a fusible alloy that attaches to both parts and forms a solid bridge between or around then. First recognized during the middle Bronze Age.

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Soldering