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Carboy

A large bottle, generally protected by a basket or box, usually used for containing corrosive liquids, etc.

Carboy

Sheffield Plate

Copper plated with silver, especially as produced in Sheffield from 1760 to 1840.

Sheffield Plate

Te Awanga

Fortified site in Tiromoana, New Zealand, with sweet potato storage pits with very early dates, possibly to the earliest settlement.

Te Awanga

Cuello

A small Maya site in northern Belize, with one of the longest and most complete sequences covering the whole of the Pre-Classic period of Lowland Maya culture. It is the earliest-known ancient Maya site. A major discovery was of an early (Swasey) stage, c 2500-1200 BC, below Middle and Late Forma...

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Pyu

An ethno-linguistic group, now extinct, with a Tibeto-Burman language, calling themselves Tirchul. They were probably related to the Burmese. Their kingdom of P'iao in the Irrawaddy basin was first mentioned in the 3rd century by Chinese sources and probably existed from the 1st century BC-9th ce...

Pyu

Beacharra Ware

Style of decorated middle Neolithic pottery found in western parts of Scotland and classified by Stuart Piggott into three groups: unornamented bag-shaped bowls (A); decorated carinated bowls with a rim diameter less than the diameter at the carination and incised or channeled ornament (B); and s...

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Beacharra Ware

Kawela

A valley in Molokai, Hawaii, with a well-preserved pre-European settlement from the last one or two centuries before contact.

Kawela

Rimsherd

A fragment of the rim of a pottery artifact.

Rimsherd

Cornelian

A translucent, semiprecious variety of the silica mineral chalcedony that owes its red to reddish brown color to hematite (iron oxide). Found in India, Brazil, Australia, Africa, and the Nile Valley. It was highly valued and used in rings and signets by the Greeks and Romans.

Cornelian

Fletching

The pieces of feather attached to the end of an arrow or dart to stabilize flight

Fletching

Middle Egypt

Geographical term loosely applied to the area south of Luxor, especially to sites around Beni Hasan and Tell el Amarna, generally from Lisht to Panopolis. In Ptolemaic times, a heptanomis of seven nomes was formed in Middle Egypt.

Middle Egypt

Stria

A linear mark, ridge, or groove, especially one of a number of similar parallel features

Stria

Compressed Stratigraphy

Deposition of artifacts and features that has not occurred in discernable layers or is lacking in significant depth overall.

Compressed Stratigraphy

Ranjpur

Prehistoric site in northwest India with evidence of the Mature and Late Harappan, divided into five periods from c 3000 BC. The Mature Harappan had baked bricks, drains, graffiti on pottery, stone weights, terra-cotta cakes, beads, and pottery. New elements appear in the material culture - anima...

Ranjpur

Hedeby

An important Viking settlement in northern Germany and one of the earliest Scandinavian urban centers, established in the late 8th century. It is situated on a fjord, defended by a large earth rampart. Between 800-1050, Hedeby was a major trading center and many imported luxury goods have been fo...

Hedeby

Altheim

A small site near Landshut, Bavaria (Germany) which has three concentric rings of ditches and palisades. It is also the name of the Late Neolithic-Copper Age culture of the upper Danube basin.

Altheim

Everted Rim

A rim which turns sharply outwards and upwards from the shoulder of the vessel

Everted Rim

Orifice

The mouth or opening, usually at the top, of a vessel.

Orifice

Came

A strip of lead holding small pieces of glass (quarries) in a window.

Came

Polissoir

A block of coarse stone, sometimes as an earthfast boulder or natural outcrop, used for grinding and polishing stone axes in the final stages of production. Archaeologically they are distinctive in having bowl-shaped depressions on which the bodies of the axes were ground. Some also have V-sectio...

Polissoir

Tasaday

Small group of forest food collectors isolated in the rain-forests of Mindanao, the Philippines, first reported by anthropological investigators in 1971. Numbering 25 at the time, the Tasadays have a simple technology and food-gathering strategy. Linguistic studies suggest that they may instead h...

Tasaday

Urn Cover

A flat and relatively thin piece of stone, wood, or ceramic placed over the open top of an urn before, during, or after its deposition in a burial pit.

Urn Cover

Lauicocha Caves

A series of caves of long occupation in the central Peruvian highlands, mainly summer hunting camps, the associated winter locus being the lowlands, during the Archaic. The earliest period of occupation was c 8000-6000 BC; this level is characterized by stemless triangular points and stemmed diam...

Lauicocha Caves

Badorf Ware

A type of pottery of the 8th-9th centuries in the hills of Cologne, Germany. The globular pitchers and bowls of the Carolingian period are the best known. Badorf-ware kilns have been excavated at Bruhl-Eckdorf and Walberberg and products have been found in the Netherlands, eastern England, and in...

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Strike-A-Light

A type of flint tool in the form of a rod or bar with a slightly pointed end that is often considered to have been used in conjunction with a piece of suitable stone (e.g. iron pyrites) for making sparks with which to start a fire.