Categories - Archaeologs

Obtuse

A term used to describe a rounded tip or blunt tipped artifact.

Obtuse

Lan Chang

The earliest kingdom of Laos, founded in 1353, the establishment of an eastern branch of the Thai people in a territory which belonged to the declining Khmer empire of Angkor. The kingdom was formed by the union of the principalities of Muang Chawa (present-day Luang Prabang) and Wian Chan (prese...

Lan Chang

Artifact Typology

The placement of materials in a geographic, temporal, etc. context with other similar artifacts; the study of artifact classes with common characteristics; classification according to artifact type.

Artifact Typology

Pyramid

A monumental tomb in the shape of a pentahedron, a square base and four straight sides converging to an apex, built by the ancient Egyptians in stone or brick to cover or contain the burial chamber of a pharaoh. Its origin lay in the mudbrick mastaba of the Archaic Period, which in the Old Kingdo...

Pyramid

Gouge

A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery; is a long, tapered, semi-cylindrical implement with a broad groove or hollow at the U-shaped, scooplike working end

Gouge

New Guinea Highlands

An area of Oceania which was unknown until the 1930s and whose population is Melanesian speakers of Papuan languages. Its prehistory goes back at least 26,000 years and supported agricultural systems dating back at least 6000 years.

New Guinea Highlands

Acropole Of Susa

A site in southwestern Iran including a large cemetery and platform from Susa's initial occupation, dating to the end of the 5th millennium BC. The site is divided into Acropole 1 and 2; Acropole 1 has provided a sequence of 27 levels up to the Akkadian period. Some levels contain evidence of the...

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Acropole Of Susa

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Oligocene

Major worldwide division of the Tertiary Period that began about 36.6 million years ago and ended about 23.7 million years ago. It follows the Eocene Epoch and precedes the Miocene Epoch. The term Oligocene is derived from Greek and means the epoch of few recent forms referring to the sparseness ...

Oligocene

Dorsal Ridge

The sharp ridge that marks the boundary between flake scars on the dorsal surface of a lithic flake.

Dorsal Ridge

Archaeological Chemistry

The application of chemical theories, processes, and experimental procedures to obtaining archaeological data and to solutions of problems in archaeology. This field includes laboratory analysis of artifacts and materials found in archaeological context.

Archaeological Chemistry

Mitathal

Prehistoric site in Haryana, India, with a double mound consisting two occupational periods. Mitathal I has pottery similar to the Early Harappan site of Kalibangan. The Mitathal II has the same pottery with Mature Harappan changes, also seen in other artifacts and the town layout.

Mitathal

Jujube

A small edible one-seeded fruit from an Asian tree of the buckthorn family.

Jujube

Lan Na

An ancient northern Thai principality, centered around present Chiang Mai. Founded in the late 13th century, it was also called Yonaratha or Yonakarattha or Bingarattha in the Pali chronicles. Recently the name has also been used to designate a Palaeolithic industry discovered in northern Thailan...

Lan Na

Drakenstein Urn

Type of middle/late Bronze Age ceramic vessel found in the Low Countries. The pots are barrel-shaped with impressed cordon decoration on the upper part of the body and occasionally with zig-zag decoration. The shape and decoration of these vessels suggest some contact with the Deverel-Rimbury war...

Drakenstein Urn

Yarmouth

A major division of Pleistocene deposits and time in North America, named for deposits in Yarmouth, Iowa, and equivalent to the Mindel-Riss Interglacial Stage of Alpine Europe. In some places, fossil vertebrates are well represented. It was at least as warm as modern times and, in some regions, t...

Yarmouth

Acroterion

The sculptured figure, tripod, disc or urn, of bronze, marble, or terracotta, placed on the apex of the pediment of a Greek temple or other substantial building; sometimes also above the outer angles of the pediment triangle.

Acroterion

Sextant

An instrument for measuring the angular distance of objects, and particularly used for navigation by noting the position of the stars.

Sextant

Unbeveled

An edge which was not steeply flaked into a bevel.

Unbeveled

Valley Of The Queens

Cemetery of the royal wives and sons of some of the New Kingdom pharaohs, located on the west bank at Thebes, just northwest of Medinet Habu, Egypt. Late 17th and early 18th Dynasty royal families are buried there; most of the 18th Dynasty rulers' wives were buried with their husbands in the Vall...

Valley Of The Queens

Benchmark

A reasonably permanent, fixed point of reference, especially a point of known position and elevation used in mapping.

Benchmark

Allometry

A scaling of body parts in animals so that the measurement of one part is a function of the measurement of another part.

Allometry

Addaura

A cave in Monte Pellegrino near Palermo, Sicily, with engravings from the Upper Palaeolithic period. The main scene is of human figures and seems to depict an initiation or circumcision. It is attributed to the Romanellian culture of 11,000 years ago.

Addaura

Mut

In Egyptian religion, a sky goddess and great divine mother. Mut may have originated either in the Nile River delta or in Middle Egypt. During the 18th dynasty (1539-1292 BC), she became the companion of the god Amon at Thebes, forming the Theban triad with him and Khons, who was said to be Mut's...

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Mut

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Calowanie

An Upper Palaeolithic site in eastern Poland with artifacts dating to 11,500 BP and overlying layers dating to c 11,000-10,000 BP.

Calowanie

Artenac

A cave site in Charente, France, which is the type-site of the Artenacien culture. Artifacts include copper beads, flint daggers, and fine pottery with beaked handles. There are simple megalithic tombs and burial caves, dating to c 3000-2000 BC.