Categories - Archaeologs

Qaluyu

A site and cultural phase of the Early Horizon Period in northern Titicaca area of Peru. The pottery had incisions or simple painted geometric motifs in red on cream.

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Qaluyu

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Aestel

An object to point at words whilst reading

Aestel

Geosol

A unit of classification for a sediment or rock body with one or more soil horizons. A geosol is a recognized soil or palaeosol.

Geosol

Distance-Decay Function

A mathematical expression of the inverse ratio between the quantity of a substance and the distance from its source; the rate at which interaction declines as the distance from the source increases. This function is a specific example of linear regression analysis and can be used to describe the ...

Distance-Decay Function

Hunter-Gatherer

A way of life in which subsistence is based on the hunting of animals and the collection of wild plants rather than settled agriculture. It is a collective term for the members of small-scale mobile (to be near seasonally available wild foods) or semi-sedentary societies and the organizational st...

Hunter-Gatherer

Residue

Preserved foreign material, generally on an artifact such as pottery or basketry

Residue

Recovery

The act or process of obtaining artifacts from a site for the purpose of deriving archaeological data.

Recovery

Fulton Turkey Tail Point

A leaf-shaped side-notched point - with notches chipped into each side of the base to form a stem below the main part of the point, generally 3 3/4-6 inches long.

Fulton Turkey Tail Point

Tradition

A term describing the persistence in a given area over a period of time in individual attributes, artifact types, or technologies; a culture that exists for an extended period of time and usually over an extended area. An example is the chopping-tool tradition of South Asia. A tradition is also a...

Tradition

Argar, El

An Early Bronze Age settlement near Almeria in southeast Spain that is the type site of a culture of the 2nd millennium BC. The settlement was fortified and contained rectangular stone houses, though little has been recovered as they are not as well-preserved as the Argaric sites Ifre and El Ofic...

Argar, El

Mataa

Large-stemmed obsidian spearpoint that was shaped and hafted by inhabitants of Easter Island. It is of the period of internal wars, 18th-19th centuries AD.

Mataa

Matola

Early Iron Age shell midden site near Maputo on the coast of southern Mozambique. Its pottery is used to define the Matola section of the first Iron Age farmers in the area. The pottery recovered is remarkably similar to that from Kwale near the Kenya coast far to the north. There may have been a...

Matola

Romanesque

A style of architecture which emerged about 1000 and lasted until about 1150, by which time it had evolved into Gothic. It was hybrid style of architecture and ornament, transitional from the classical Roman to the introduction of the Gothic. It was a combination of horizontal and arched construc...

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Romanesque

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Nichoria

Mycenaean settlement in Messenia, Greece, with a 15th century BC structure which may have been an early palace. There were at least two tholos tombs.

Nichoria

Gaviota

The name of a final preceramic phase, 2000-1750 BC, of the central Peruvian coast. There was sedentary agricultural village life and early construction of large ceremonial centers.

Gaviota

Tordos

A site on the Mures River in Transylvania, Rumania, with archaeological finds dating from the Middle Neolithic Age (3500-2600 BC). Its has given its name to the Transylvanian regional group of the Vinca culture and is often coupled with that of Vinca to describe a Middle Neolithic culture coverin...

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Tordos

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Micoquian

Final Acheulian phase defined on the basis of assemblages from La Micoque, near Les Eyzies, France. Sites are in central Europe, including some in the former Soviet Union. The characteristic artifact is a pointed-pyriform (pear-shaped) or lanceolate (tapering) biface with a well-made tip.

Micoquian

Luni

An Apennine village with long houses cut into soft rock, a small but prosperous Roman town on the Ligurian coast of north Italy. It specialized in the trade of marbles quarried at Carrara. There is evidence of its Late Roman trading contacts with North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean and the...

Luni

Warp

The fair rigid foundation of basketry

Warp

Es-Skhul

Cave site in Israel's Mount Carmel complex. It has Natufian, Upper Palaeolithic, and Levallois-Mousterian occupation levels and skeletal remains dating to c 100,000 BP, thought to be ancestral to European Cro-Magnons.

Es-Skhul

Bothros

In Greek archaeology, a pit used for storage or rubbish disposal.

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Bothros

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Nimes

Colony founded by the emperor Augustus in southern Gaul (France), originally a Celtic settlement (capital of the Volcae Arecomici). It became a colony in 121 BC and the walls and gates were built by Augustus; in Roman times one of the richest towns of Gaul. Remains include an amphitheater designe...

Nimes

Crazing

A cross-hatched pattern of fractures, observable on the surface of a stone, as the result of excessive temperature exposure. In ceramic analysis, it is a situation in which differential shrinkage causes the surface of the vessel to crack while the remainder of the vessel wall remains undamaged.

Crazing

Chamberstick

A single candle holder with a curved handle coming from the base

Chamberstick

Tata

Middle Palaeolithic site on the Danube River in Hungary with artifacts and fauna, including woolly mammoth, horse, and wild ass, and dated to the early Last Glacial. Tools are sidescrapers, bifaces, Upper Palaeolithic tools.