Categories - Archaeologs

Limonite

Limonite is the catchall name widely applied to hydrous iron oxide minerals. It is more specifically an impure hydrated iron oxide varying in color from dark brown to yellow, colloidal or amorphous in character.

Limonite

Mutule

Projecting flat slab under the cornice in Classical structure of the Doric order.

Mutule

Taung

A fossiliferous deposit in Bophuthatswana, South Africa, with the first Australopithecine fossil found. This early hominid skull of a child, found in 1924, was named Australopithecus africanus and dubbed the 'Taung baby'. The deposit is 2 million years old.

Taung

Otranto Mosaic

A Romanesque cathedral in Apulia, southeastern Italy, with a mosaic pavement covering the nave and aisles. Laid between 1163-1166, it was designed by a priest named Pantaleon and shows certain similarities to the Bayeux tapestry. The central theme is the history of the universe. Similar mosaics e...

Otranto Mosaic

Flake Scatter

A quantity of stone flakes loosely discarded during toolmaking, often found in a semicircle pattern where work was done.

Flake Scatter

Bluestone

A type of bluish-gray combination of dolerite, rhyolite, and volcanic stone used in the second phase of building Stonehenge. The source seems to be the Preseli Hills of South Wales, 215 km away.

Bluestone

Ordinal Scale

A measurement scale with categories that have inherent order so that values can be less than or greater than others.

Ordinal Scale

Marca Huamachuco

Large Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon site located in the northern highlands of Peru near the ruins of Viracochapampa. It was the center of a major polity, the site consisting of a complex of circular and rectangular multi-story buildings of cut stone and surrounded by a stone wall. ...

Marca Huamachuco

Indianization

The transplantation by peaceful means of the Indian civilization in Europe and other parts of Asia; the process of making Indian in character or composition, as by the replacement of foreigners by native-born Indians in positions of authority. The expansion of the Indian culture was founded upon ...

Indianization

Sons of Horus

Four deities - jackal-headed Duamutef, falcon-headed Qebehsenuf, human-headed Imset, and baboon-headed Hapy - who were responsible for protecting the internal organs of the deceased in canopic jars. The jars were decorated with sculpted human heads and from the 19th dynasty until the end of the N...

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Sons of Horus

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Otakanini

A Maori pa (hillfort) on a small island in Kaipara Harbor, North Island, New Zealand. The site has three defensive phases from the 14th-18th centuries AD, and after 1500 its inner citadel was defended by palisades and large raised fighting platforms. Cultural affiliations are Classic Maori.

Otakanini

Puamau Valley

A valley on eastern Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, Polynesia, containing a group of anthropomorphic stone statues up to 2.5 meters high. This is the biggest group of large statues in Polynesia outside Easter Island.

Puamau Valley

Rank

The position held by an individual on the basis of his status within a society where statuses are not all equal, but are graded into a hierarchical structure. A society with such inequalities of status is called a ranked society. A rank is a distinct class or level within a hierarchy.

Rank

Poliochni

A settlement site on the island of Lemnos in the northern Aegean, first occupied in the Final Neolithic. Its seven successive phases span the Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age, parallel to the first six cities of Troy. Its Neolithic cities, equipped with stone baths, represented the most advanced Ne...

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Poliochni

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Cascioarele

A small settlement on an island in the Danube River, southern Rumania. Excavations have revealed occupation layers of the Middle, c 3900-3700 BC, and Late Neolithic, c 3700-3500 BC. A complete village plan has been found from the later occupation with one large central structure surrounded by six...

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Cascioarele

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Mousterian

A Middle Paleolithic culture that is defined by the development of a wide variety of specialized tools made with prepared-core knapping techniques, such as spear points. It is named for the first such artifacts recovered from the lower rock shelter at Le Moustier, Dordogne, France. Stone tools, s...

Mousterian

Activity Set

A set of artifacts that reveals the activities of an individual.

Activity Set

Flexed Burial

A method of burial in which the body is interred in a fetal position.

Flexed Burial

Cattle

Domesticated bovine farm animals of the genus Bos raised for their meat or milk or for draft purposes. Wild cattle or aurochs (Bos primigenius) were widely distributed and are beautifully portrayed in Palaeolithic cave art and present from the Middle Pleistocene. The earliest evidence of domestic...

Cattle

Karbuna

One of the earliest hoards discovered in the Balkan Neolithic of the Cucuteni-Tripolye culture in Moldova. The Karbuna hoard of 852 objects was discovered in a Tripolye A-B1 pot and it includes some of the earliest cast copper items, shell, marble, and bone jewelry. The date of deposition is disp...

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Karbuna

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Taputapuatea

Traditionally, the most sacred marae of eastern Polynesia, on Raiatea, Society Islands. It is associated with the worship of the god Oro. The surviving platform (ahu) is 40 meters by 7 meters and is faced with coral slabs. The platform's shell is dated to the 17th century AD.

Taputapuatea

Haft

The handle of a compound weapon or a tool - such as an adze, awl, ax, or knife.

Haft

Amulet

Small good-luck charms, often in the form of gods, hieroglyphs, and sacred animals and made of precious stones or faience. They were especially popular with Egyptians and other Eastern peoples, worn both in life and placed in burials or within mummy wrappings. Amulets were supposed to afford prot...

Amulet

Level

An instrument used in surveying which takes vertical measurements and which is much used in excavation for the recording of site contours and accurate depths of features, especially for making maps and identifying the location of artifacts. There are several types of leveling instrument, the Y or...

Level

Chindadn Point

A small teardrop-shaped bifacial point found in central Alaska and dating to c 12,000-10,000 bp; they are diagnostic of the Nenana complex.