Xiajiadian

Site in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia (China) which lends its name to two cultural entities of the Northern Zone - an early Bronze Age culture, the Lower Xiajiadian; and Upper Xiajiadian, an agricultural and horse-riding aristocracy contemporary with early Zhou/Chou. The Bronze Age culture was contempo...

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Xiajiadian

Segmental Bowl

Bowl of which the body forms part of the segment of a sphere.

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Segmental Bowl

Broch

A prehistoric circular towerlike building of dry stone which was peculiar to the north and west of Scotland. The hollow walls, which contained chambers and stairways, were built of dry masonry and the tower was usually 13-20 m in diameter and tapered inwards in the upper courses. The walls may be...

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Broch

Kadero

Important Khartoum Neolithic site on the edge of the old Nile flood plain which has lent information on the early development of food production in the central Sudan. Kadero was an extensive village inhabited during the second half of the 4th millennium BC. Herding was mainly of cattle, with some...

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Kadero

Nus-I Jan

Median site in the Malayer valley of Luristan, western Iran, which had a small fortified settlement in the late 8th century BC. Its architecture revealed Median cultic practices. A later Parthian settlement also was on the site.

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Nus-I Jan

Primary Cremation

The burning of a dead person on a pyre in the grave.

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Primary Cremation

Polypod Bowl

A bowl that stands on two, three, or four small legs - found especially in Middle American archaeology. The form was also popular among the southwestern groups of the Beaker folk and in related central European wares.

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Polypod Bowl

Button And Loop Fastener

A fastener made of a metal circle connected to a metal loop fixed to an object and used to fasten to another object by means of a button or a loop. The usage of these items is unclear, could include use for animals or for dress.

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Button And Loop Fastener

Sangiran

Important site for Indonesian finds of Homo erectus in the Solo River valley of Java. Rich fossil-bearing deposits of both Middle Pleistocene (Trini fauna) and Lower Pleistocene (Djetis fauna) have yielded fossils of more than four hominid individuals from each level, including five skulls from t...

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Sangiran

Lovelock Cave

A Late Archaic site in the Humbolt Lake region of west-central Nevada, occupied as early as 7000 BC. Located near a desert marsh, it has yielded details of prehistoric desert adaptations over a long period. A dating scheme covering the period 2500 BC-500 AD has been developed. The pits and artifa...

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Lovelock Cave

Asyut

Capital of the Asyut muhafazah (governorate) and the largest settlement of Upper Egypt, midway between Cairo and Aswan on the west bank of the Nile. It was a center of worship for Wepwawet, the jackal-headed god. In the Middle Kingdom, it was the capital of the 17th nome (province) of Upper Egypt...

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Asyut

Collared Urn

A type of urn used in the British Early Bronze Age, also called an 'overhanging rim urn'. It has a developed rim which may be straight, convex, or slightly concave in profile. Decoration is normally on the rim or the upper half of the vessel. Collared urns often contained cremation burials, thoug...

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Collared Urn

Natural Secondary Context

A secondary context resulting from natural transformational processes such as erosion or animal or plant activity.

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Natural Secondary Context

Diring

A Neolithic site in northeast Siberia with burials of the Ymyakhtakh culture and an assemblage of quartzite cores, pebble tools, and flakes.

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Diring

Bougon

A cemetery site of megalithic tombs at Deux-Sèvres, France with radiocarbon dates to the mid-5th millennium BC, making them among the oldest chambered tombs in Europe. There is pottery from the Early Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.

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Bougon

Relative Dating

Dating methods where phases or objects can be put into a sequence relative to each other, but which are not tied to calendrically measured time. It is the sequencing of events or materials relative to another but without linkage to ages in years bp (before present) or calendar years. A relative d...

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Relative Dating

Ozieri Culture

Late Neolithic culture of Sardinia, known from caves and open villages, and dated to the late 4th and 3rd millennia BC. It produced elaborately decorated, high-quality pottery. Classic Ozieri decorated ware has been dated to c 4100-3500 BC at the Grotta di Filiestru (Bonu Ighinu). There are rock-...

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Ozieri Culture

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great (Alexander III), king of Macedonia, began his career of conquest in 335 BC. He overthrew the Persian Empire and laid the foundation for the territorial kingdoms of the Hellenistic world. Born in Macedonia in 356 BC, he was the son of Philip II and Olympias. He was taught by th...

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Alexander the Great

Berdyzh

An Upper Palaeolithic site in Belarus with radiocarbon dates of 23,430-15,000 bp. On the Sozh River, there are faunal remains of woolly mammoth and mammoth-bone houses.

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Berdyzh

Transverse Plane

The plane parallel to the stance of a pot or perpendicular to the longitudinal axis in a piece of wood.

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Transverse Plane

Bristlecone Pine

A small pine tree, approximately 15-40 feet (5-13 m) high, which is the oldest living tree in the world. It is native to the Rocky Mountains of the United States, at elevations above 7,500 feet (2,300 m), and they have the longest life-span of any conifer. A stand of this tree in eastern Nevada i...

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Bristlecone Pine

Collector System

A lifeways system in which people obtain food in bulk and store it.

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Collector System

Prothesis

In Greek antiquity, the lying-in-state of a corpse. It is depicted in pottery scenes and on ceramic monumental funerary markers as having occurred mainly at home, particularly in the 8th century BC.

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Prothesis

Majiabang

A Neolithic site and culture of Jiaxing, China, near Shanghai. The people are descendants of the 5th millennium BC Ho-mu-tu in the region south of the Yangtze near Shanghai. The early phase yielded a radiocarbon date of c 4000 BC. It had close ties with the Ch'ing-lien-kang culture in southern Ki...

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Majiabang

Nonintrusive Archaeology

Archaeological research without excavation.

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Nonintrusive Archaeology