Parametric Test

Panpipe Lug

A type of handle found on Neolithic pottery of the Chassey, Cortaillod, and Lagozza cultures in France, Switzerland, and northern Italy. It consisted of cylindrical vertical lugs placed side by side, thus resembling slightly the panpipe. The panpipe, a wind instrument, was widespread in Neolithic...

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Panpipe Lug

Pre-Boreal

A division of Holocene chronology which began about 10,000 years ago and ended about 9,500 years ago. The Pre-Boreal Climatic Interval preceded the Boreal Climatic Interval and was a time of increasing climatic moderation. Birch-pine forests and tundra were dominant. It is a subdivision of the Fl...

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Pre-Boreal

Press Mold

A mold used to shape the exterior of a glass item while a plunger shapes the interior of the item.

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Press Mold

Intensive Survey

A systematic survey of a research area that attempts to find all possible sites.

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Intensive Survey

Huang

A flat semicircular or arc-shaped jade pendant known from Neolithic sites in China and made throughout the Bronze Age.

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Huang

Knossos

A well-known palace site on the island of Crete that has been inhabited almost continuously from 6000 BC when the first Neolithic settlement was constructed. It was the location of the chief palace of the Minoans, near Herakleion at the center of the north coast of Crete. The Neolithic settlement...

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Knossos

Triglyph

In the Doric architectural order, the part of an entablature of a building that alternates with a metope. It consisted of three elements separated by two vertical grooves in a Doric frieze.

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Triglyph

Serraferlicchio

A site near Agrigento in southern Sicily which has given its name to style of pottery of the Copper Age (3rd millennium BC). It is found mainly in rock-cut tombs and consists of a bright-red slipped ware decorated with black paint in geometric designs. Characteristic forms are open bowls and a va...

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Serraferlicchio

Landscape Signature

The material remains of human activities across the landscape.

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Landscape Signature

Watom Island

Island off New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago, Melanesia, with Lapita pottery c 2767-1787 bp. There is also obsidian from Talasea and Lou and Lapita human skeletal remains.

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Watom Island

Fremont Culture

An agricultural Puebloan people found throughout much of present-day Utah between 400-1350 AD. There is some similarity to the Anasazi in pottery types and pithouse architecture. Hunting and gathering was most important, supplemented by the growing of maize, beans, and squash.

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Fremont Culture

Fromms Landing

A limestone shelter site in the Lower Murray River Valley of South Australia with human occupation from c 3000 BC and deposits spanning 5000 years. The evidence parallels the nearby sequence of Devon Downs and includes stone artifacts (Pirri points and microliths) and a well-preserved dingo skele...

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Fromms Landing

Zhenla

The name used for an early Khmer state in southeast Cambodia and south Vietnam, probably established during the 6th century AD in the upper-middle reaches of the Mekong River, in what is now Laos. The leaders of Zhenla descended from the Funan. Zhenla was later divided into 'Land Chenla' and 'Wat...

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Zhenla

Acid Etching

The use of hydrofluoric acid to etch a pattern onto a glass surface.

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Acid Etching

Difference-Of-Means Test

Statistical test comparing two sample means to see if a sample probably came from a given population or if two samples probably came from the same population.

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Difference-Of-Means Test

Qasr Es-Sagha

Egyptian site in northern Fayyum with an undecorated temple, probably of the Middle Kingdom.

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Qasr Es-Sagha

Actualistic Study

Detailed observation of the actual use of archaeological artifacts, ecofacts, and features, used to produce general analogies for archaeological interpretation.

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Actualistic Study

Flange

The transverse flattening of an edge - making a projecting flat rim, collar, or rib on an artifact. It was used to strengthen an object, to guide it, to keep it in place, or allow its attachment to another object. The external ledge of a pottery bowl is often termed this.

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Flange

Kanjera

A site near Kanam in western Kenya with hand axes of probably Acheulian type in the Middle Pleistocene deposits. Very fragmentary remains of skulls are probably post-Pleistocene.

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Kanjera

Utilized Flake

A piece of stone debitage used for cutting or slicing. The edge may be damaged from use, but not deliberately.

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Utilized Flake

Dacia

A Roman frontier province north of the Danube in the area of the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania, in present-day western Romania, spanning c 106-270 AD. The Dacians were agricultural and worked their rich mines of gold, iron, and silver. As a people, they first lived south of the Danube and...

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Dacia

Crutch-Head Pin

A type of bronze dress fastener characterized by a simple shaft with a short cross-piece set in the form of a T. Some examples have decoration on the upper part of the shank and head. Dating to the 15th century BC they are found in southern Britain in association with Wessex Culture II graves and...

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Crutch-Head Pin

Spatial Dimension

A characteristic of an artifact based on its location in an activity area.

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Spatial Dimension

Nevali Cori

Prehistoric site on the Euphrates River near Samsat, Turkey, with an Aceramic Neolithic settlement revealing information about the PPNB complex. There is a series of buildings with stone foundations and broken stelae. Later occupation included Halaf period and Early Bronze Age I.

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Nevali Cori

Circumscription

The act or process of being enclosed by either environmental boundaries or social boundaries

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