Categories - Archaeologs

Vertical Slab

A slab that is set on its side or its end.

Vertical Slab

Opus Mixtum

A Roman construction technique using mixed brick and stone facing popular under the later Roman empire and especially under Diocletian (AD 284-305).

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Opus Mixtum

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Top-Down Strategy

A strategy of archaeological survey that uses random sampling to select areas to survey and attempts to cover a large area, ignoring previous knowledge and intuition.

Top-Down Strategy

Humanism

A system of thought or action that emphasizes the importance of intuition and feelings in the acquisition of knowledge rather than a scientific focus.

Humanism

Chin Dynasty

A Chinese dynasty (AD 1115-1234) founded by the Jurchen tribes of Manchuria, who were formerly vassals of the Khitans or Liao dynasty (AD 916-1125). They overran most of northern China and captured the Sung capital of K'ai-feng, forcing the Chinese to move their capital south to Hang-chou in 1126...

Chin Dynasty

Muqdam, Tell El-

Large settlement site in the central Nile Delta, Egypt, which was probably the center of the 23rd Dynasty (818-715 BC). The site is still dominated by the remains of the temple to the local lion-god Mihos.

Muqdam, Tell El-

Anthropoid

Of human form; manlike. Taken from the Greek term for man-shaped, it is used to describe sarcophagi and coffins and other artifacts of human shape. The term is also used to describe a being that is only human in form or an anthropoid ape (gibbons, orangs, chimpanzees, gorillas).

Anthropoid

Tartaria

Late Neolithic site in Transylvania, Romania, with a Vinca pit containing three controversial clay tablets in a Tordos level. They bear incised signs, are unbaked, and resemble pictographic signs from Jemdet-Nasr and Uruk. However, there is approximately a 1000-year discrepancy between the Tartar...

Tartaria

Atlatl Weight

Drilled or grooved stone or shell that was used to weight the atlatl

Atlatl Weight

Apse

Semicircular end of a Classical building or Christian church.

Apse

Pendlebury, J.D.S.

An archaeologist who worked in Egypt, notably on the site of Tell el-Amarna, and then moved to the Aegean, attracted by the ancient Egyptian imports to that region, which are vitally important for cross-dating. His most famous book, "The Archaeology of Crete" was published in 1939. Pendlebury als...

Pendlebury, J.D.S.

Travertine

A compact, light-colored limestone (calcite) deposition formed by limestone in solution. It has been much-used in architecture. Stalactites and stalagmites in caves are formed from travertine. Fossils and other remains may be found in travertine deposits and dense travertine may sometimes be date...

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Travertine

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Single-Link Clustering

Adding a new member to a group on the basis of a high coefficient of similarity to only one existing member of the group.

Single-Link Clustering

Tutulus

A circular bronze ornament worn at the waist by women during the Danish Bronze Age

Tutulus

Epicanthic Fold

The skin and flesh immediately above the upper eyelid; a fold of skin across the inner corner of the eye (canthus). The epicanthal fold produces the eye shape characteristic of persons of Asian (Mongoloid) geographic race; it is also seen in some American Indians and occasionally in Europeans (e....

Epicanthic Fold

Habasesti

A stratigraphic settlement site of the Late Neolithic Cucuteni culture, in north Moldavia, Rumania. The main settlement level (Cucuteni A3), has a radiocarbon date of c 3130 BC. A village of almost 70 houses is on a promontory site, which is defended by a ditch and palisade. Rich polychrome paint...

Habasesti

Matupi

Cave site in northeastern Zaire in the Ituri forest, containing a long sequence of predominantly microlithic Later Stone Age industries extending back to c 40,000-3000 BP. It represents one of the earliest such occurrences in sub-Saharan Africa. The appearance of true backed microliths is dated p...

Matupi

Baal

A god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern places and the most important deity of the Canaanites. He was first mentioned in inscriptions of the Middle Bronze Age, middle of the 2nd millennium BC, and was depicted as a young armed warrior with bull's horns coming from his helmet. He was the f...

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Baal

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Death Mask

A cast of a person's face taken after death.

Death Mask

Bridge

A structure forming a road over a river, etc. or allowing passage between two points above the ground. A bridge can be a simple plank or single arch or an elaborate architectural structure supported by arches, chains, girders, piers, etc. They are made of many different materials. The first bridg...

Bridge

Glass

A hard, amorphous, inorganic, usually transparent, brittle substance made by fusing silicates, sometimes borates and phosphates, with certain basic oxides and then rapidly cooling to prevent crystallization. It was first developed from faience about 4,000 years ago in the Near East, but was rarel...

Glass

Pfupi

Term used for Later Stone Age material in southwest Zimbabwe. The terms Khami or Matopo are now more generally used.

Pfupi

Pitchfork

A two- or three-pronged implement equipped with a long handle, made of wood or having a wooden shaft and metal head, used for pitching hay or straw usually in the course of turning it, moving it, or building a storage rick.

Pitchfork

Zebbug

Cemetery of five rock-cut tombs on the island of Malta, which has given its name to the Zebbug phase of the Maltese Islands pre-temple Neolithic, dated c 4100-3800 BC.

Zebbug

Quarry Blank

A rather small or medium-sized thin leaf-shaped piece of slint that could be mistaken for a small knife, scraper, or triangular notchless arrowhead