Chiot Pottery

Archaic pottery of the Greek island of Chios, though it may also have been made at Naucratis. The pots and chalices had a cream slip and glazed interior. Decoration on the exterior was scenes with figures; inside were floral patterns.

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Palstave

A Middle Bronze Age form of ax with side flanges, stop-bar (or -ridge), and sometimes one or (rarely) two loops attached - found in Europe. Its features made for more secure hafting of the ax blade by preventing lateral movement and haft splitting. This development lead to the socketed ax. It was...

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Palstave

Infrared Linescan

Imagery that results from equipment that scans from horizon to horizon to detect and record actual temperature differences (thermal prospection) on continuous videotape.

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Infrared Linescan

Countersunk Handle

A rounded handle partly sunk into the side of a vessel

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Countersunk Handle

Drinking Tube

A length of hollow bird-bone used in aboriginal ceremonial situations for drinking liquids

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Drinking Tube

Trend Surface Analysis

A method used to make a generalized map from observed data and used to highlight the main features and important trends of a geographic distribution. Archaeological observations mapped are discontinuous and at isolated points and therefore must be used to give information over a wider area. This ...

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Trend Surface Analysis

String Mark

The marks on the base of a vessel caused by the potter detaching the pot from the wheel by means of a wire or string.

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String Mark

La Tène

The site of a great Iron Age votive deposit in the shallow water at the east end of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Excavations revealed wooden piles, two timber causeways, and a mass of tools and weapons of bronze, iron, and wood (swords, fibulae, spearheads, etc.). Some of these objects bore curvi...

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La Tène

Combe Capelle

A rock shelter in Dordogne, France, with Châtelperronian, Aurignacian, Gravettian, and Solutrean industries as well as a burial of a Homo sapiens sapiens.

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Combe Capelle

Dog-Leash Technique

A method of defining an archaeological recovery area by attaching a rope to a centrally located marker stake and tracing the boundary in a circle.

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Dog-Leash Technique

Lupembian

A stone industry of the Lower Palaeolithic of west-central Africa, developed from a Sangoan predecessor and characterized by tools appropriate for rough woodwork. Lupemban is found in northern Angola and southern Zaire and an important dated site is at Kalambo Falls on the Zambia/Tanzania border....

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Lupembian

High-Energy Society

Any society characterized by high per-capita consumption of energy, mostly through nonfood sources. Industrial societies, with their reliance on fossil fuels, are high-energy societies.

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High-Energy Society

Yaz-Depe

Site in the Murghab delta of southern Turkmenia, the type site of the Iron Age Yaz complex. There is a citadel, extensive irrigation system, and pottery of three phases from mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BC.

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Yaz-Depe

Colossi Of Memnon

Two colossal seated statues of Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BC), carved from quartzite sandstone, which are located at the eastern end of the site of his much-plundered mortuary temple in western Thebes; each of the figures is flanked by a representation of Tiy. The two remaining statues are 70-feet ...

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Colossi Of Memnon

Skraeling

Norse term for native peoples of Greenland, also known as Inuit, who settled the island in the late 10th century AD. They are probably of the Thule culture.

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Skraeling

Kbs

An Earlier Stone Age industry (and site) of the Oldowan industrial complex at Koobi Fora, Kenya, dating to 1.8 million years ago. The site has stone artifacts and animal bones that are an important source of information on early Hominids.

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Kbs

Whirligig

In early Celtic art a motif comprising three or four conjoined spirals either radiating from, or swirling about, a common centre, of which one element may be eccentric, being larger or more complex than the others. The four-part version may appear as a curvilinear rendering of the swastika motif....

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Whirligig

Sacsahuamán

An immense fortified Inca complex, built as an adjunct to the Incan capital at Cuzco, Peru, and begun some time after 1438. Thought to have functioned as a storage center and military garrison in peacetime, it was used as a safe haven for Cuzco residents in times of danger. Its north-facing limes...

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Sacsahuamán

Cacaxtla

A group of platforms, palaces, and ceremonial buildings occupied between 400- 1100 AD in the area of modern Tlaxcala, Mexico. Some structures have well-preserved frescoes, painted murals, and plaster reliefs from the 8th and 9th centuries depicting dancers and elaborately dressed warriors, with d...

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Cacaxtla

Peiligang

Neolithic sites in Henan Province, China, and the name of the earliest millet-based culture of northern China. It includes or parallels Cishan, Laoguantai, and Lijiacun.

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Peiligang

Parting Agent

A material like sand, ash, or dry clay, sprinkled over a mold or working surface to prevent wet clay from sticking

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Parting Agent

Barley

A hardy group of staple cereals (genus Hordeum), cultivated in all parts of the world and since at least 7000 BC in the Near East, at least as early as wheat. The two-row barley, Hordeum distichum, was derived from the wild H. spontaneum, distributed from the Aegean to the Hindu Kush. It is recor...

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Ramesseum

The mortuary temple of Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC), located on the west bank of the Nile at western Thebes, opposite modern Luxor. The temple is famous for its 57-foot seated statue of Ramesses II. The walls of the Ramesseum are decorated with reliefs, including scenes depicting the Battle of Kade...

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Ramesseum

Mortuary Temple

An Egyptian temple, located close to a royal tomb, where the mortuary cult of a king was carried out. It was a center for the performance of rites for the benefit of the dead king and a depository for offerings of food, etc. It was originally part of the funerary complex; in the New Kingdom, it c...

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Mortuary Temple

Samaria

Palestinian site which was the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel. After a sporadic Early Bronze Age occupation, the city was founded by Omri, king of Israel, in 880 BC, and the earliest, and very fine, buildings and planning are attributed to him and his son, Ahab. Influence of the Phoeni...

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Samaria