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Muller

A small grinding stone, often for use with pigments but also grains, ores, and drugs. In painting, it is an instrument used in conjunction with a slab to grind artists' colors by hand. From ancient Egyptian times until the 18th century, porphyry (a rock of feldspar crystals) was used.

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Ampajango

A site in Catamarca Province, northwest Argentina, with a river terrace containing a complex of bifacial tools dating c 10,000 BC.

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Eutectic Development

The lowest melting temperature obtainable with mixture of given components that do not form solid solutions.

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Eutectic Development

Goljamo Delcevo

A Neolithic and Copper Age tell site of the Cucuteni-Tripolye culture in northeast Bulgaria. The settlement with adjoining cemetery are dated pre-4000 to 3600 BC and has 16 occupation layers with many complete house-plans. There is a system of rectangular fortifications with palisades. In the sma...

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Goljamo Delcevo

Stained Glass

Colored glass used for making decorative windows and other objects through which light passes, created since early Christian times. It was not an important art until about the 12th century.

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Stained Glass

Latch

A small bar raised or lowered by a latchlifter which is used to fasten gates or doors etc.

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Latch

Bukit Tengku Lembu

A rock shelter site in Malaysia with remains related to the Ban Kao Neolithic and black ware that may be Indo-Roman rouletted ware.

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Bukit Tengku Lembu

Gorman, Chester F.

An American archaeologist who specialized in early metallurgy and horticulture in Thailand and who worked at Spirit Cave and Ban Chiang.

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Gorman, Chester F.

Flat-File Database

A set of data records stored in a single large table.

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Flat-File Database

Enumerative Method

Any dating technique based on the observation and counting of measurable events, such as the growth of tree rings or deposition of sediments.

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Enumerative Method

Perachora

A Greek sanctuary dedicated to Hera and located on a promontory on the Bay of Corinth. The Early Iron Age sanctuary had offerings of ivory.

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Perachora

Transepted Gallery Grave

A type of gallery grave having side chambers resembling transepts; a variant of the megalithic gallery grave in which side chambers (transepts) open from the main burial chamber. These tombs are found only in three areas: near the mouth of the River Loire in France, in the Bristol Channel region ...

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Transepted Gallery Grave

Spelt

A primitive variety of wheat (Triticum aestivum spelta) with lax spikes and spikelets containing two light red kernels. It was apparently not cultivated on the earliest of farming sites, but appeared only in the second millennium BC. It is a hulled grain (i.e. grains and glumes do not separate du...

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Spelt

Rescue Project

Any attempt by cultural resource management to study artifacts and features which are imminently threatened by development.

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Rescue Project

Behistun

A rock face on the Kermanshah-Hamadan road in Iran on which Darius I (Darius the Great, reigned 521-485 BC) recorded his victories which gave him the Achaemenid empire in 522-520 BC. The bas-relief - 400 feet above the road - shows Darius, under the protection of the god Ahuramazda, receiving his...

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Acquisition

The first stage of the behavioral processes (followed by manufacture, use, deposition), in which raw materials are procured.

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Nihon Shoki

The second-earliest surviving chronicle of Japan, the 'Chronicle of Japan', completed in 720. The work began in the 7th century with the same objectives as for Koji-ki, but the Nihon Shoki is a more lengthy and scholarly attempt written in Chinese, the official written language of the day. It was...

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Nihon Shoki

Hierarchy

Any organization of a group of items into a series of classes ranked from high to low, each successively higher class having fewer members. In a social hierarchy, the ranking would reflect differences in power, prestige, or access to economic resources. In a settlement hierarchy, the individual s...

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Inanna

A Sumerian deity, the goddess of love and war, storehouse and rain. She was the daughter of Nanna/Sin, sister of Enmerkar, and associated with Warka. She is equivalent to the Akkadian Ishtar. She is sometimes the daughter of the sky god An, sometimes his wife; in other myths she is the daughter o...

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Ubaid

A small tell of Ur which has given its name to a culture c 5000-3000 BC in southern Mesopotamia, where it underlies practically every city of Sumer. It later spread to the north, displacing the Halaf culture and becoming the first culture to cover the whole of Mesopotamia. It is distinguished by ...

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Hemigkofen Sword

A style of bronze sword with a leaf-shaped blade and flanged hilt developed in central Europe during the Hallstatt A period and traded to other parts of northern Europe. They appear in Britain, especially in the Thames Valley, during the Penard Phase.

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Dish

A shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food.

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Dish

Sorghum

A cereal grain plant, probably originating in Africa, with edible starchy seeds. It was probably first cultivated when increasing dryness began to affect the already numerous human groups, after 7000 BP. This plant with its fine ears of grain needs 500-600 mm of water a year. Sorghum vulgare, whi...

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Sorghum

Merovingian

A dynasty of Frankish rulers and their kingdom, from c 476-750 AD, recognized as the first of the kings of France. Named after its founder Merovech the Merovingians ruled France from time of Childeric I to that of Charles Martel. Merovingian is a term used to describe Frankish archaeology of 6th ...

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Merovingian

Kalambo Falls

A site on the Zambia-Tanzania border at the southeast corner of Lake Tanganyika which has yielded one of the longest archaeological sequences (100,000 years) in sub-Saharan Africa and important pollen and radiocarbon data. The ancient lake deposits preserved objects from the Stone and Iron Ages. ...

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