Lopburi

Shaqadud

Site in the Sudan with early Khartoum Neolithic material dated to c 5500 bp. There was also a late Neolithic occupation c 4200-3600 bp.

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Shaqadud

Baktun

A unit in the Classic Maya long count equaling 144,000 days or about 400 years.

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Baktun

Oral History

Traditions and tales passed from generation to generation by word of mouth.

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Oral History

Prambanan

A complex of Hindu and Buddhist temples on a plain near Yogyakarta, Java, built in the late 8th and 9th centuries AD. These stone monuments were built by the rulers of Mataram and include Loro Jonggrang, Candi Sewu, and Plaosan; their many inscriptions are a rich source of historical information.

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Prambanan

Field Archaeology

The study of archaeological remains through observation and interpretation of what is in the field without recourse to excavation. Some features are readily seen and identifiable and others must be sought out or are found only by chance disturbance. The technique is associated with O.G.S. Crawfor...

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Field Archaeology

Speos Artemidos

Rock-cut temple dedicated to the lioness-goddess Pakhet (Pasht), just east of the Middle Kingdom rock-cut tombs of Beni Hasan, Egypt. It was built by Queen Hatshepsut and Thutmose III of the 18th dynasty; a smaller shrine of Alexander II is nearby.

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Speos Artemidos

Cross Section

In masony, the configuration of a wall through its thickness. It can be compound (combination of single stone and double stone), compound with core (areas separated by rubble core), double bonded (double stone with overlap in interior), double stone with core (two stones wide with rubble core but...

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Cross Section

Pitcairn Island

One of the isolated islands of eastern Polynesia, settled by Polynesians c 1100 AD, but abandoned when mutineers from HMS Bounty arrived in 1790. Pitcairn is one of many isolated Polynesian islands with a 'lost' population. Their is evidence of occupation in stone platforms with anthropomorphous ...

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Pitcairn Island

Circea

A settlement site of the Early Neolithic Cris in the Olt Valley of southwestern Rumania, dating from the late 6th to mid-5th millennia BC. Four main occupation phases have been found, all of which are defined by rich painted ware assemblages. Level I has some of the earliest white-on-red painted ...

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Circea

West Kennet

A Neolithic long barrow, the largest of the Severn-Cotswold group of megalithic tombs, in Wiltshire, England, of c 3500 BC. The tomb has two pairs of transepts and a terminal chamber; the entrance opens from a crescent-shaped forecourt blocked by a straight facade of sarsen slabs. The burial was ...

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West Kennet

Bibracte

An Iron Age Gallic town and oppidum in central France. It was the capital of the Aedui tribe at the time of Caesar and the site where he defeated the Helvetii tribe, the climax of his first campaign in Gaul (58 BC). Augustus moved the inhabitants to his new town Augustodunum (Autun), about 30 km ...

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Bibracte

Wedge

An object, usually wood or metal used to force open or keep open another object. Often used to split timber by striking the thick end and forcing the wood apart.

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Wedge

Atrides

A dynasty that may have reigned in Mycenae toward the end of the 2nd millennium BC and said to dominate some other Greek principalities.

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Atrides

Sur Enclume

Bipolar or bidirectional backing of a stone tool; backing produced by force from two directions

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Sur Enclume

Danubian Culture

Early farming culture(s) of the Danube basin of central and eastern Europe, of the Neolithic and Eneolithic, starting c 5300 BC. The stages, named by Gordon Childe, were Danubian I (Linear Pottery culture), Danubian II (later Neolithic cultures, such as Tisza, Lengyel, Rossen, and stroke-ornament...

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Danubian Culture

Plains Village Tradition

Name given to group of cultures of the central and eastern plains of North America between 900-1850 AD, particularly in Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Contemporaneous with Mississippian tradition of Eastern Woodlands, it represents a fusion of that tradition with the Plains variant of the Wo...

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Plains Village Tradition

Microscarring

Minute patterns of edge damage on a stone tool, often suggesting how that tool was utilized.

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Microscarring

Body Plug

An object used in the preparation of a body following death. It was used to plug the orifices of the body.

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Body Plug

Oinokhoe

Oinokhoe, a wine jug from the classical period of Greek pottery, a graceful vessel with delicately curved handle and trefoil-shaped mouth. It was used to take the wine out of the crater and distribute it into cups (especially at symposiums) and is the vase carried by the goddesses and used for li...

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Pot Boiler

The name given to stones, often flint, which have been heated in a fire and have a white or grayish cracked appearance. They are thought to have been used to heat water for cooking purposes.

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Pot Boiler

Fufeng

A district north of the Wei River in central Shaanxi province, China, rich in Western Chou/Zhou (1122-771 BC) remains. The area was the center of Chou power for several generations preceding the founding of the Chou dynasty, and the dynastic capital Zong Zhou may also have been here. Excavations ...

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Fufeng

Leguminous Plant

A vegetable used for food.

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Leguminous Plant

Painted Glass

Glass which has been colored and decorated by painting

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Painted Glass

Catlinite

Red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Native Americans for their pipes

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Catlinite

Cave Bear

An extinct species of bear that lived 300,000-10,000 years ago in Europe and the Mediterranean. They could be up to 8 feet long and about twice the weight of modern European brown bears. They were vegetarian.

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