Categories - Archaeologs

Catastrophic Profile

A table plotting the age and sex of animal bones which shows the natural distribution of animals in a herd, suggesting natural disaster or unselective slaughter.

Catastrophic Profile

Soil Profile

The vertical sequence of horizons in the soil which occur not as the result of stratification but as a result of weathering and other processes. The profile provides environmental or palaeoenvironmental information, such as information on vegetation and climate. The term also refers to a vertical...

Soil Profile

Stradonice

Iron Age oppidum in Bohemia of the 2nd century BC, La Tène period. Fine painted ceramics and coins were made there.

Stradonice

Richness

A measure of diversity equal to the number of taxa present.

Richness

Digital Imagery

Aerial images obtained from satellites that provide information on reflected light outside of the visible spectrum.

Digital Imagery

Locality

A large site composed of two or more clusters of material remains; a variable area not larger than the space that might be occupied by a single community or local group and small enough to permit the working assumption of complete cultural homogeneity at any given time.

Locality

Fluxgate Gradiometer

A magnetometer using two sensors in a light, self-contained instrument which produces a continous output and records differences in magnetic intensities on a meter.

Fluxgate Gradiometer

Cross River

A river valley in western Africa, mostly in southeastern Nigeria, where more than 300 huge anthropomorphic monoliths were found, probably dating from 16th century AD.

Cross River

Necho

The name of two rulers of Egypt's 26th Dynasty. Necho I (fl. c 672-664 BC), was governor of Sais and the first of the Saite pharaohs. Necho's ancestor was probably a prince of Libyan descent of the 24th Egyptian dynasty. Necho II (Wehemibra) (fl. 6th-7th century BC) was king of Egypt (reigned 610...

Necho

Pointillé

A type of decoration by marking with dots

Pointillé

Corrugation

A technique of decorating pottery in which the individual coils are not smoothed on the outside, thus forming an overlapping surface. Corrugation improves a pot's heat conductivity.

Corrugation

Gornja Tuzla

A tell settlement in Bosnia and Hercegovina of the Starcevo, Early and Late Vinca, and Late Copper Age periods. Pottery typology and radiocarbon dates are c 4690 BC for Starcevo and c 3760-3630 BC for Late Vinca. There was sporadic occupation interspersed with long breaks. In the Late Vinca level...

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Gornja Tuzla

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Medithermal

The last of the divisions of the Neothermal (postglacial) period, dating from about 4,000 years ago to present.

Medithermal

Sulphur Spring

The earliest of three stages of the Cochise culture, named for a cluster of sites in southeast Arizona, and dating from 6000 / 7000 BC to c 4000 BC. Evidence of plant food processing (cobble manos) together with split and burnt faunal remains, imply an Archaic lifestyle, although there are almost...

Sulphur Spring

Arles

A city in southern France on the left bank of the Rhône that was once a colony founded by Caesar (46 BC) and which has an amphitheater and cryptoporticus dating from 1st century BC. Very little is known of the Celto-Greek settlement, traditionally colonized by the Phocaeans. Marius constructed th...

Arles

Druids

A powerful Celtic priesthood of the Gauls and Britons from the 1st century BC through the 1st century AD. They led the resistance to the Romans, and when they were finally defeated in 78 AD they were exterminated, partly due to human sacrifices that they carried out. The Druids believed in reinca...

Druids

Kroeber, Alfred Louis

American anthropologist who made great contributions to American Indian ethnology; to the archaeology of New Mexico, Mexico, and Peru; and to the study of linguistics, folklore, kinship, and social structure. He was one of the small group of scholars whose work laid the basis of New World archaeo...

Kroeber, Alfred Louis

Feature Record

A comprehensive and detailed summary of how a given feature was excavated, what was found in or associated with it, and an interpretation of what the feature represents.

Feature Record

Scraping Tool

A stone tool used to remove fat from the interior of an animal hide

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Scraping Tool

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Rosegate Series Point

Bifacially worked chipped stone projectile points characteristic of Archaic communities living in the Great Basin of North America in the period AD 700-1300. Distinguished by having a triangular outline, small corner notches and a basal tang. Once known as Rose Spring and East Gate types, they ar...

Rosegate Series Point

Shoshone

Native American group that inhabited much of the Great Basin during both historic and prehistoric times.

Shoshone

Rock Art

Painting and engraving on rock or cave surfaces, done as decoration, depiction of narratives, or for religious purposes. There are petroglyphs (carvings on rock face), engravings (incisions), and pictographs (paintings on rock surfaces). A great deal of rock art occurs throughout African continen...

Rock Art

Kufa

Before the founding of Baghdad, one of the largest and most important towns in Iraq. It was founded as a garrison by the caliph Omar I in 638. In 749, it served briefly as the capital of the Abbasids, before they founded Baghdad. Kufa became a large commercial and intellectual center, but a serie...

Kufa

Archanes

A Minoan site on Crete with a 16th century BC palatial structure, cemetery complex, and artifacts of gold, ivory, and marble.

Archanes

Wilson, Daniel

Scottish antiquary who coined the word "prehistoric" in his book "The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland" (1851). He was the first to organize Scotland's artifacts according to the Three-Age System. He also wrote "Prehistoric Man: Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old ...