Categories - Archaeologs

Chamber Pot

A bowl kept in a bedroom and used as a toilet

Chamber Pot

Orangia

Middle Stone Age site in the Orange River valley in the extreme south of the Orange Free State, South Africa. The artifacts are analogous to those of the Pietersburg complex to the north. It is the type site of an early Middle Stone Age Pietersburg-like flake-blade industry. It is now inundated b...

Orangia

Bucranium

In Roman times, an ox skull that was carved in relief and was part of the decoration of a building.

Bucranium

Hureidah

A site in Yemen, southwestern Arabia, with a temple to the god Sin. The temple of dressed stone blocks on a plastered rubble platform has a tentative date of 7th-6th century BC.

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Hureidah

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Aoc Beaker

All-over-corded beaker

Aoc Beaker

Handstone

A handheld milling stone used to process materials on a metate.

Handstone

Cult Temple

A temple for worship of a god with images of deities, and where the followers worshipped daily. The cult temple achieved its most highly developed form in the great sanctuaries erected over many centuries at Thebes - especially the Luxor Temple, started by Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty.

Cult Temple

Narosura

Important Pastoral Neolithic settlement site near Narok in southern Kenya, occupied between the 9th-5th centuries BC. Post-holes suggest the presence of semi-permanent structures of some kind, and the site appears to have covered an area of at least 8000 square meters. A backed microlith industry...

Narosura

Drinking Horn

A drinking vessel, usually curved in shape, fashioned out of animal tusk or horn and sometimes with bands of decoration

Drinking Horn

Flask

A narrow-mouthed jar without handles.

Flask

Quaternary

Major geochronological subdivision which includes the Pleistocene (c 1.8-2.45 million years bp) and Holocene (c 10,000 BC) epochs and marked by the appearance of near-humans and Homo sapiens. It is the second period of the Cenozoic geologic era, following the Tertiary, the youngest of the 11 peri...

Quaternary

Pirak

Prehistoric site of the Kacchi Plain, Baluchistan, Pakistan where a post-Harappan cultural sequence has at least seven phases over the 2nd millennium and early 1st millennium BC. The sequence is characterized by a painted pottery with a geometric style with earlier monochrome painted decoration b...

Pirak

Auricle

The corners of a stem of stemmed types or the corners of the base of triangular types which are ear-like.

Auricle

Hastinapura

A site on the upper Ganges in India which revealed important prehistoric stratigraphy. The lowest level, with ochre-colored pottery, was followed by painted gray ware, mudbrick walls, etc. Over this, there was a settlement of mud-brick houses with northern black polished ware and coinage of the l...

Hastinapura

Glaive

A weapon which is a blade fixed to a long handle.

Glaive

Pharos

One of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous lighthouse in antiquity, built on the island of Pharos in the harbor of Alexandria. It was a technological triumph and is the archetype of all lighthouses since. Built by Sostratus of Cnidus for Ptolemy II of Egypt in c 280 BC, it is said ...

Pharos

Articular Surface

The portion of a bone connecting with other bones.

Articular Surface

Balakot

A settlement site on the coast west of Karachi, Pakistan, dating to the 4th millennium BC. The Balakotian ceramic was followed by Harappan levels. Resources were fish, cattle, sheep, and goats.

Balakot

Old World

The Eastern Hemisphere, with special reference to Europe, Africa, and Asia; the part of the world known to Europeans before contact with the Americas.

Old World

Huang-Tao Ware

A type of Chinese stoneware made in the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 AD) in the Honan Province. It is glazed in black or brown and splashed with an opalescent bluish or gray contrasting glaze.

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Huang-Tao Ware

Significance Level

The probability of a type I error or willingness to reject a true hypothesis.

Significance Level

Khyan

A 15th Dynasty Hyksos ruler of Lower Egypt, whose 'throne name' was Seuserenra. Unlike the other Hyksos pharaohs, who commissioned very few architectural or sculptural monuments, Khyan was responsible for the decoration of religious structures at Gebelein and Bubastis.

Khyan

Totem

Any object from the natural world, usually an animal, with which a particular clan or tribe considers itself to have a special association or even blood relationship. It is also the term for a representation of such in an emblem or badge or a group of people within a Native American nation who sh...

Totem

Pottery

One of the oldest of the decorative arts, consisting of objects made of clay and hardened with heat. The objects are commonly useful. Earthenware is the oldest and simplest form of pottery; stoneware is a pottery compound that is fired at a sufficiently high temperature to cause it to vitrify and...

Pottery

Looped Spearhead

A type of bronze spearhead common in the middle Bronze Age of Europe which has a pair of small loops cast into the outside of the hafting socket near the base. It is assumed that these loops were to assist in securing the shaft to the spearhead itself.