Categories - Archaeologs

Barbed Wire

Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage

Barbed Wire

Amen

The god of Thebes (Upper Egypt) who came into prominence with the dynasties of the Middle and New Kingdoms. Many pharaohs from the 11th Dynasty onward include his name in theirs, as Amenemhet and Tutankhamen. Amen is associated with the ram, though represented in human form, and sometimes incorpo...

EnglishGod Names

Amen

archaeologsGod Names

Picardy Pin

Style of bronze pin common in northern France and southern England during the Ornament Horizon of the middle Bronze Age. Picardy pins are distinctive in having a tapering shaft that is considerably thickened at the head end, a swollen neck, and an elaborated domed or mushroom-shaped head. They of...

Picardy Pin

Deflector

An upright slab or short segment of masonry or jacal wall between a hearth and the opening of a ventilator tunnel. Deflectors are common in pit structures but can also be present in surface rooms. They are thought to have shielded the fire from direct air flow from the ventilation system.

Deflector

Remote Sensing

The nondestructive techniques used in geophysical prospecting and to generate archaeological data without excavation. It is a general term for reconnaissance and surface survey techniques that leave subsurface archaeological deposits undisturbed. Reconnaissance and site survey methods use such de...

Remote Sensing

Ebbsfleet Ware

A family of elaborately decorated Neolithic ceramics found in southern and eastern parts of the British Isles. Dating to the period 3000 to 2000 BC, Isobel Smith divided Peterborough wares into three successive styles-Ebbsfleet, Mortlake, and Fengate-on the basis of their occurrence in the ditch ...

archaeologsAncient Pottery

EnglishAncient Pottery

Ebbsfleet Ware

Lothagam

A site at the south end of Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in northern Kenya with jaw fragments of what is thought to be a hominid come from deposits some 5-6 million years old. It may be Australopithecus.

Lothagam

Relative Chronology

A time scale developed by the law of superposition or artifact ordering. It is the establishment of a chronology in which occurrences can be placed in the correct sequence relative to each other or to some known succession of events. Stratigraphy is the study of the relative chronology of the Ear...

Relative Chronology

Costrel

A type of medieval pottery flask, of which the majority were made of leather and have not survived. Merovingian and Carolingian pottery costrels tend to be roughly round in shape, with a slight neck for a stopper. The best-known is the Zelzate costrel, made in the 'Badorf-type' industries of the ...

archaeologsTools, Artifacts

EnglishTools, Artifacts

Costrel

Columnar

Pertaining to prismlike blocks with strong vertical faces but with rounded vertices that give the particles or peds a pillar-like shape.

Columnar

Michelsberg

A Middle Neolithic culture of Belgium, northeastern France, the Rhineland and parts of Switzerland from c 4500-4000 BC. It occupies a frontier zone on the borders of the Danubian culture, TRB culture, and western Neolithic complex, and shares traits with all three. The type site is a hilltop encl...

EnglishCultures

Michelsberg

archaeologsCultures

Nuclear Area

A location where large, complex societies occur at different times, such as the valley of central Mexico. The term also is defined as the focus of activity in a site, such as a camp or village around which hunting or agricultural activity takes place.

Nuclear Area

Tanagra

Site in Boeotia, Greece, where a large cache of finely worked, cast terra-cotta figurines were found in Hellenistic period cemeteries spanning the period from c 340-150 BC. There are also Mycenaean chamber tombs in the area. The nearly circular hill of the ancient ruined city was first occupied b...

EnglishPlace Names, Ancient Cities

Tanagra

archaeologsPlace Names, Ancient Cities

Lingling-O

A kind of knobbed earring made of jadeite, glass, or metal and typical of Sa Huynh in Vietnam. It is also found in the neighboring islands and was possibly traded in Southeast Asia.

Lingling-O

Bouleuterion

The Greek structure for meetings of the city council (boule), a rectangular building, often with a D-shaped hall with a curved side with rows of seats. Athens' bouleterion was built c 500 BC and a Hellenistic example at Miletus dates to c 170 BC. It was the model for Roman Senate buildings (curia).

Bouleuterion

Tamaya Mellet

A site west of the Air Mountains in the Tamesna of Niger, Africa, where pottery occurs in one of its earliest known Saharan contexts c 7300 BC. The sherds were found in association with barbed bone harpoon heads. Also, bone harpoons associated with lucustrine fauna have been dated to c 9400 bp.

Tamaya Mellet

Lead

A soft, silvery-white or grayish metal that is very malleable, ductile, and dense and is a poor conductor of electricity. Known in antiquity and believed by the alchemists to be the oldest of metals, lead is highly durable and resistant to corrosion, as is indicated by the continuing use of lead ...

Lead

Gothic

A style of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music characteristic of the second of western and central Europe during the Middle Ages. Gothic art evolved from Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century to as late as the end of the 16th century in some areas. The term Gothic was allud...

Gothic

Stem-And-Leaf Plot

A graph used in exploratory data analysis that mimics a histogram without losing any information.

Stem-And-Leaf Plot

Dragon

A legendary monster usually depicted as a huge, bat-winged, fire-breathing, scaly lizard or snake with a barbed tail. In general, in the Middle Eastern world, the dragon was symbolic of the principle of evil. In the Far East, the dragon was prestigious and considered a beneficent creature. The Ch...

Dragon

Mazer

A drinking bowl, often wooden.

Mazer

Valley Temple

A mortuary temple placed at the edge of the Nile, where the king's body was received for final rites before being transported via a connecting causeway to his pyramid.

Valley Temple

Arkin

A Stone Age site near Wadi Halfa in the Nubian Nile Valley. There are factory sites for roughouts of foliate points of the Later Mousterian tradition which are probably contemporary with factories at nearby Khor Musa. The artifacts show affinities with Saharan Aterian artifacts.

Arkin

Cordilleran

The ice mass that covered the coastal mountains along the Pacific Ocean coast of North America from northern Washington state into southern Alaska. At its maximum extent, about 20,000 years ago, it connected with the Laurentide ice sheet to the east and with the Pacific Ocean to the west, and rea...

Cordilleran

Tamaulipas

A state in northeastern Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico with a series of caves having evidence of incipient agriculture in the Infernillo Phase. The earliest period had crude pebble tools (preprojectile points) and overlain by the Lerma Phase c 7000 BC which had projectile points similar to those of...