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Mortlake Ware

A family of elaborately decorated Neolithic ceramics found in southern and eastern parts of the British Isles. Dating to the period 3000 to 2000 BC, Isobel Smith divided Peterborough wares into three successive styles-Ebbsfleet, Mortlake, and Fengate-on the basis of their occurrence in the ditch ...

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Mortlake Ware

Saber

A curved sword designed to cut with used by cavalry.

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Saber

Population, Statistical

A set of variates (counts, measurements, or characteristics) about which relevant inquiries can be made.

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Population, Statistical

Gaussian Distribution

A probability density function for continuous interval data.

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Gaussian Distribution

Crucible Smelting

A technique of separating copper from ore by heating the ore in an open vessel, designed to withstand very high temperatures, rather than in a closed furnace.

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Crucible Smelting

Marcellum

A market building at or near the center of a Roman town, consisting of shops grouped around a colonnaded court where commodities were traded.

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Marcellum

Research Question

A specific question (or questions) that archaeologists ask when preparing a research program and seek to answer when executing that program.

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Research Question

Tungus

Ethno-linguistic group of eastern Eurasia and Siberia who spoke Tungusic languages of the Altaic language family. They are believed to have entered the Korean peninsula in the 1st millennium BC (Bronze Age).

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Tungus

Romano-Saxon Ware

This term is used both of wheel-made Roman pottery in coarse or color-coated fabrics with stamped or bossed decoration resembling that on many hand-made Saxon vessels, and of hand-made Saxon pottery imitating Roman forms. It is found mainly in eastern England. The former class belongs to the late...

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Romano-Saxon Ware

Uniformitarianism

A fundamental philosophy of geologic science, the principle that the earth was formed by the same natural geological processes that are still going on today. This principle - that existing processes acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at present are sufficient to ...

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Uniformitarianism

Portchester Ware

Type of late Saxon pottery manufactured on the coast of central southern England.

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Portchester Ware

Megapode

A member of a family of stocky, chickenlike birds (order Galliformes, family Megapodiidae) found in Australia and the islands of the southwestern Pacific that build huge mounds of decaying vegetable matter in which to incubate their eggs. Most of the 12 species rely on fermenting plant matter to ...

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Megapode

Kisapostag

An Early to Middle Bronze Age culture of western Hungary and Slovenia typologically contemporaneous with the late Unetice and Hatvan cultures. This Danube Valley culture dates to the early 2nd millennium BC, with a number of cemeteries in which inurned cremation is the characteristic rite. Kisapo...

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Kisapostag

Emblem Glyph

Symbols standing for royal lineages and their domains in the Maya civilization; a Maya glyph identifying a place or polity. Each of the principal Maya cities had its own hieroglyph, which appears in inscriptions of all kinds. All such emblem glyphs share the same prefix, but the main element vari...

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Emblem Glyph

Eraillure Scar

The small flake scar on the dorsal side of a flake next to the platform. It is the result of rebounding force during percussion flaking.

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Eraillure Scar

Proportion

The ratio of the abundance of one taxon to the total of all taxa.

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Proportion

Ingaladdi

A sandstone rock shelter in the Australian Northern Territory known for two well-separated stone industries and for art. The upper levels date 3000 bp and contained a Australian Core Tool assemblage with points and tula adze flakes. The unifacial points included some with denticulated margins and...

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Ingaladdi

Barrow

A round or elongated mound of earth or stones used in early times to cover one or more burials; a grave mound. The mound is often surrounded by a ditch, and the burials may be contained within a cist, mortuary enclosure, mortuary house, or chamber tomb. There are two types, the long (elongated) a...

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Barrow

Incrusting

Impressing of material into the surface of a ceramic object.

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Incrusting

Fracture Mechanics

Characterization of crack growth (fatigue crack growth, sustained load fracture and dynamic crack growth). There are also two chapters dealing with mechanisms of fracture and the ways in which actual material behavior influences the fracture mechanics characterization of crack growth.

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Fracture Mechanics

Ensérune

Iron Age oppidum (promontory fort) in Hérault, southern France, first founded in the 6th century BC. It had defenses of Cyclopean masonry and well laid-out stone houses, both of which are very similar to those found on Greek settlements in the area. Large storage jars and silos excavated into the...

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Ensérune

Oxfordshire Ware

Pottery made mostly in the vicinity of Oxford in a variety of fabrics. Vessels include distinctive types of mortaria, PARCHMENT WARE, and red color-coated ware in the Samian tradition. This centrally placed industry became one of the largest and most important in Britain during the 4th century AD.

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Oxfordshire Ware

Copal

Incense used in Maya rituals, obtained from the resin of various tropical trees.

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Copal

Caton-Thompson, Gertrude

A British archaeologist who worked in Egypt, northern Transvaal, and the Arabian peninsula. She showed that the Great Zimbabwe site was of African construction.

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Caton-Thompson, Gertrude

Paso

A shell mound on the shore of Lake Tondano in northern Sulawesi, which is the best-preserved pre-Neolithic midden to be excavated in Indonesia. Dated to c 6500 BC, there are obsidian flake tools and bone points pre-dating the Toalian. Its inhabitants lived on shellfish and hunted the local fauna....

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