Categories - Archaeologs

Dhang Rial

A mound in southern Sudan with a two-part Iron Age sequence starting in 500 AD, with an earlier ceramic Stone Age occupation.

Dhang Rial

Saccopastore

Palaeolithic site in a quarry near Rome, Italy, which has yielded two human skulls. These are regarded as early or generalized Neanderthals (Neanderthaloid) and are believed to belong to the last Interglacial. The brain sizes of both skulls are smaller than classic Neanderthals. A few Mousterian ...

Saccopastore

Gebel Barkal

A mountain in Upper Nubia which was a center of worship for Amen in the New Kingdom. There was a temple built by Ramesses II that was extended by other rulers. There are nearby pyramids related to the Meroitic Period.

Gebel Barkal

Qataban

One of the kingdoms of southern Arabia in the 1st millennium BC, contemporary with the Minaeans, Sabaeans, and Hadramis. Its capital city was Timna'. Its heartland was at Wadi Bayhan.

Qataban

Middle Woodland Period

A term sometimes used to describe the time period during which the Hopewell culture flourished throughout the American Midwest, from roughly 50 BC to 400 AD.

Middle Woodland Period

Qermez Dere

Late Epipalaeolithic to early Aceramic Neolithic site in northern Iraq with seven phases of occupation defined. The lithic industry is similar to those west on the Euphrates River (Mureybet). It is the beginning of documented habitation on the north Mesopotamian plain. Views on the earliest Neoli...

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Qermez Dere

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Behbet El-Hagar

A town in the northern central Nile Delta which flourished in the 30th Dynasty (380-343 BC) and the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC). The site is dominated by the remains of a large granite temple of Isis.

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Behbet El-Hagar

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Conquest

Aggressive movement of human groups from one area to another, resulting in the subjugation of the indigenous society. It is also described as the acquisition of territory by the victorious state in a war, at the expense of the defeated state. An effective conquest takes place when physical approp...

Conquest

Ingombe Ilede

An Iron Age site in southern Zambia, occupies in the 14th-15th centuries AD by peoples who engaged in extensive trade in copper and gold. Elaborate graves contained metal bangles, ingots, iron hoes and gongs, bundles of copper wire, woven cotton cloth, marine gastropod shells, gold beads, and imp...

Ingombe Ilede

Lithology

The description of rocks on the basis of such characteristics as color, mineral composition, and grain size. Also, the physical character of a rock.

Lithology

Housemound

A type of low earth platform used by the ancient Maya Indians as a foundation for a house.

Housemound

Hazleton

A Neolithic chambered long Severn-Cotswold barrow in Gloucestershire, England, with two megalithic chambers. The radiocarbon dates were c 4700 BC.

Hazleton

Barrel Urn

Type of large middle Bronze Age pot found within the overall repertoire of the Deverel-Rimbury ceramic tradition of southern Britain in the period 1500 BC through to 1200 BC. Usually over 60cm high, barrel urns have a distinctive profile, wider in the middle than at the base or the rim, often wit...

Barrel Urn

Full-Time Specialist

A nonfood producer who earns a living by an occupation other than farming and who must exchange goods or services for food.

Full-Time Specialist

Colless Creek

A rock shelter site of northwest Queensland, Australia, with a rich artifact assemblage. Occupation was before 17,350 bp - possibly 30,000 years ago.

Colless Creek

Kition

An important Late Cypriot settlement in southern Cyprus, first occupied in the 13th century BC. The copper trade supported it until it was destroyed c 1200 BC, possibly by the Sea Peoples. In the 11th century BC, possibly because of an earthquake, it was abandoned but then recolonized by the Phoe...

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Kition

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Tustrup

Neolithic mortuary house in a megalithic tomb cemetery in Jutland, Denmark, c 2900 BC. Highly decorated pottery vessels accompanied the burial.

archaeologsAncient Pottery

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Tustrup

Glume

A floral ecofact; the casing holding the wheat kernel.

Glume

Varve Dating

A technique for producing chronometric dates based on the annual formation of layers of sediment on lake and river beds in glacial regions. Seasonal fluctuations in particle size and speed of sedimentation take place. During the winter, ice melting is very slow, melt-water streams do not contain ...

Varve Dating

Radioactivity Scanning

A type of surveying in which readings measure discontinuity between buried ditches or pits and the surrounding earth.

Radioactivity Scanning

Alambra-Mouttes

An early Middle Cypriote site in eastern Cyprus with rectangular stone houses.

Alambra-Mouttes

Myrtos

An Early Minoan settlement in southern Crete, occupied c 2600-2200 BC. It was a village of irregularly grouped buildings on a sloping hillside. There is evidence of relatively complex economic organization, attested by seals and sealings and by evidence of craft specialization. The economy may ha...

Myrtos

Axle

A rod or spindle, either fixed or rotating, on which a wheel or group of wheels is fixed. The axle cap is Usually made of iron, this bound the end of an axle and was perforated to allow a linch pin to pass through the axle and keep the wheel in place

Axle

Nakhon Si Thammarat

Walled town of Nakhon Si Thammarat, one of Thailand's oldest cities, which lies near the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. Founded more than 1,000 years ago, it was the capital of a powerful state that controlled the middle portion of the peninsula; it was often called Ligor until the early 20th cen...

Nakhon Si Thammarat

Orange

A colonia in southern France, established under Augustus' rule (27 BC-14 AD) which became a prosperous city. In the pre-Roman period, the area was occupied by rich, powerful Celtic tribes who appreciated its strategic position on the Rhône River. The semicircular theater, probably built during th...