Potin

Mount Do

A site near Thanh-hoa in northern Vietnam which has yielded a pebble and flake industry with a few bifaces. Chellean (early Acheulian) affinities have been suggested.

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Mount Do

Grappling Iron

A device with hooks or claws attached to a rope and used for dragging or grasping.

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Grappling Iron

Gundlingen Sword

A type of bronze sword typical of the Hallstatt C period in central Europe with a long leaf-shaped blade, broad shallow butt and pommel tang. Examples were taken or traded out of their homeland area, some reaching Britain around 700 BC.

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Gundlingen Sword

Scapula Shovel

A scraping or scooping tool made from the shoulder-blade of a large mammal such as a cow, ox, or horse, commonly used by Neolithic communities in northern Europe during earthmoving or quarrying.

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Scapula Shovel

Zeuxippos Ware

Byzantine pottery named after the baths of Zeuxippos in Istanbul (then Constantinople), Turkey; dated to 12th-13th centuries AD.

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Zeuxippos Ware

Cultural System

The nonbiological mechanism that relates the human organism to its physical and social environments. It is a perspective that thinks of culture and its environment as a number of linked systems in which change occurs through a series of minor, linked variations in one or more of these systems.

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Cultural System

Illuminated Manuscript

Handwritten books that were decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, or elaborate designs or miniature pictures. Though various Islamic societies practiced this art, Europe had the longest and probably the most highly developed tradition of illuminating manuscripts. These medieval handwri...

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Illuminated Manuscript

Sword

A weapon evolved from daggers in the bronze age, becoming longer and made with different kinds of grips. It was used for slashing and thrusting and has a broader blade than a rapier, plus a flanged hilt. Single-edged swords are rare and they are more often called sabers or falchions. Sword classi...

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Sword

Bce

Before the common era; before the Christian era. Dates are often listed as BCE (Before the Common Era = BC) and CE (Common Era = AD). In the Gregorian calendar, eras are designated BCE (before the Common Era or Christian Era) and CE (Common Era or Christian Era), terms which are equivalent to BC ...

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Bce

Eemian

The last Interglacial of northern Europe, after the Saalian and before the Weichsel Glaciation, from c 125,000-115,000 BP. This group of Quarternary Interglacial deposits are found right across Europe from the Netherlands to Russia and contain fossils that indicate warm conditions. In the Netherl...

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Eemian

Peterborough Ware

A poorly made, elaborately decorated pottery of the British Late Neolithic, found in southern England. The ornament consists of pits, bone, and wooden stick impressions and 'maggot' patterns made by impressing a bit of whipped cord into the soft clay. The earliest (Ebbsfleet) substyle developed f...

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Peterborough Ware

Rivoli

A series of sites, including hilltop settlements, of Rivoli, near Verona in northeast Italy, which have provided the name for a version of the northern Italian Neolithic Square-Mouthed Pottery culture. As well as the characteristic pottery, the sites have produced pintaderas, and a fragment of co...

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Rivoli

Madai Caves

A series of caves in eastern Sabah, northern Borneo, Malaysia, which form a large complex like those of Niah, Sarawak. The largest cave is Agop Atas, and it has produced an industry of early Australian type dated to 8000 years ago, with a pottery sequence dated from 500 BC to the present. It, alo...

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Madai Caves

Anapchi

A 7th-century palace site of the Silla Kingdom in Korea. Artifacts include dugout boats, Buddhist images, pottery and metal vessels, and inscribed wooden tablets.

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Anapchi

Olorgesailie

Important Lower Palaeolithic site south of Nairobi in southern Kenya; the area of Mount Olorgesailie was where the Rift Valley was first recognized. It had an informative Earlier Stone Age Acheulian industry with hand axes, cleavers, and other stone artifacts dating to 900,000-700,000 years ago. ...

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Olorgesailie

Size Classification

A categorization of faunal remains into categories based on body size: 1) rodent- and rabbit-sized, 2) wolf- and pronghorn antelope-sized, 3) mule deer and bighorn sheep, 4) bison- and elk-sized, and 5) giraffes and elephants

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Size Classification

Lithostratigraphic Unit

A subdivision of the earth's crust, as defined by their physical, lithologic characteristics.

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Lithostratigraphic Unit

Palanga

A find spot on the Baltic coast of Lithuania, Poland with a stray find of a perforated amber disc pendant. The disc is a skeuomorph of a bone type more common in central Europe and the south Russian steppe zone. It was dated to the earlier Bronze Age c 2nd millennium BC.

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Palanga

Frontlet

The forehead of an animal, as the upper skull and antlers of a deer or stag.

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Frontlet

Canaanite

The original pre-Israelite inhabitants of an area encompassing all of Palestine and Syria, sometimes including all land west of the Jordan River and the coast from Acre north. The names Canaan and Canaanite occur in cuneiform, Egyptian, and Phoenician writings from about the 15th century BC as we...

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Canaanite

Bore Sample

In dendrochronology, a straw-sized core removed from the bark to the pith of a tree to note and count each tree ring.

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Bore Sample

Horsham

A site in southern England where a number of Mesolithic flints have been found, including a hollow-based point which is sometimes called a Horsham point. It was once considered characteristic of a Horsham culture or group.

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Horsham

Sample, Transect

An archaeological research design in which the sampling element is a fairly long linear unit.

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Sample, Transect

Multi-Dimensional Scaling

A multivariate statistical technique which aims to develop spatial structure from numerical data by estimating the differences and similarities between analytical units. Points or items are distributed in a hyperspace, whose dimensions are a large number of variables, and can be similarly distrib...

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Multi-Dimensional Scaling

Flan

A metal disk before it is stamped to become a coin.

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