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Latin Script

Writing using a-z. Based on older forms, it developed during the Roman Empire and is used today in most countries of Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and some Asian nations.

Latin Script

Beersheba

A site in southern Israel which was a frontier post in ancient Palestine. The earliest occupations were in 12th and 11th centuries BC, but the first town belonged to the period of the United Monarchy (10th century). The 8th century BC town wall with a great gateway flanked by double guard chamber...

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Beersheba

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Homeostasis

A term used to describe a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group. In systems thinking, it is used to describe the action of negative feedback processes in...

Homeostasis

Comitium

In Roman architecture, a building near the forum used for voting and other political matters.

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Comitium

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Córdoba

A site in southern Spain that was probably Carthaginian in origin and was occupied by the Romans in 152 BC. It declined under the rule of the Visigoths from the 6th to the early 8th century AD. In 711 Córdoba was captured and largely destroyed by the Muslims. Its recovered under 'Abd ar-Rahman I,...

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Córdoba

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Glacial Till

The heterogeneous and unconsolidated mixture of boulders, gravel, clay, and sand caused by glacial action.

Glacial Till

La Tène Art

An art style of the European Iron Age, c 500 BC, developed presumably by Celtic peoples. It originated on the middle Rhine River, extending to the upper Danube and the Marne. Its finest specimens are from the British Isles in the first century BC and AD. It appears most commonly in bronzework or ...

La Tène Art

Dot Density Map

A type of map using a random pattern of points to represent the value in a given area - the more points the higher the value.

Dot Density Map

Knife-Trimming

Pottery technique using a knife to pare away the surface of a pot; the effect was sometimes used decoratively such as to produce facets around the vessel

Knife-Trimming

Mitla

A site in central Oaxaca, Mexico, which was first occupied in the centuries before 800 BC, after which it became an outpost of Monte Albán civilization. It is generally believed that Mitla (Nahuatl: Place of the Dead) was established as a sacred burial site long before the Christian Era, probably...

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Mitla

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Coprology

The study of coprolites, which consists of the examination of fossil excreta, the extraction and identification of the constituents, and the analysis of the results in terms of diet and disease.

Coprology

Paleo-Arctic Tradition

A tradition grouping industries of the Early Holocene in the western Arctic, including American Paleo-Arctic and Siberian Paleo-Arctic which are derived from Siberian Upper Paleolithic. Common features are blades and microblades, small wedge-shaped cores of bifaces in varying degrees, foliated en...

Paleo-Arctic Tradition

Serpent Mound

Large ritual earth mound near Locust Grove, Ohio, with the form of a curved serpent holding either an egg or a frog. The mound is associated with a nearby burial mound of the Adena culture. At 405 meters long, 1-2 meters high, it is probably the largest serpent effigy in the world.

Serpent Mound

Matopo

Microlithic Later Stone Age industry of the Matopo Hills, southwestern Zimbabwe, dated to 6000 BC. The hills are associated with folklore and tradition, some being venerated as dwelling places of the spirits of departed Ndebele chiefs. The hills contain gigantic caves with Khoisan paintings, and ...

Matopo

Einkorn

A variety of wheat (Triticum monococcum) cultivated in Neolithic times. It has pale red kernels and is a hulled grain (i.e. the glume remains on the grain after threshing), found at farming sites of the 8th and 7th millennia BC. Like the other cereals, it could be used for bread-making or for por...

Einkorn

Palegawra

Late Palaeolithic site in northern Iraq occupied by Zarzian hunters c 10,000-12,000 BC.

Palegawra

Laga Oda

A rock shelter near Harar in southeastern Ethiopia with occupation beginning around the 14th millennium BC. The industry of small blades and numerous backed elements continued into the 2nd millennium AD. The site also contains rock paintings depicting humans, cattle, and fat-tailed sheep.

Laga Oda

Unworked

Of a stone tool, not carved

Unworked

Passy-Sur-Yonne

Middle Neolithic long mound cemetery in Yonne, France, with associated pottery and a date of c 3800 BC.

Passy-Sur-Yonne

Washer

A small disc or flat ring of metal, wood or leather.

Washer

Core-Formed Glass

A type of glass made by twisting melted glass around a core, often with different colors. This technique was used especially in the Classical and Hellenistic periods of the eastern Mediterranean.

Core-Formed Glass

Shell-Gritted Ware

Pottery made from a fabric tempered with crushed marine shell or fossil shell.

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Shell-Gritted Ware

Strathclyde

Native Briton kingdom that, from about the 6th century, had extended over the basin of the River Clyde and adjacent western coastal districts, the former county of Ayr. Its capital was Dumbarton, then known as Alclut. Its people were in frequent conflict with the Anglo-Saxons of Northumbria and l...

Strathclyde

Venus Figurine

Small female statuettes of the Upper Palaeolithic, found from southwest France to European Russia - statuettes, sculptured in the round, of naked and often obese women. The figures, sometimes with exaggerated abdomen, breasts, and buttocks, were made of clay, stone, antler, bone, limestone, steat...

Venus Figurine

Backed Bladelet

A small stone blade with one edge blunted.