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Ipswichian

The last interglacial of Britain, equivalent to the Eemian Interglacial of North Europe, with its type site at Bobbit's Hole, Ipswich. The Alpine equivalent is the Riss-Würm and the Sangamon in the North America equivalent. The deposits indicate warm conditions with evidence of vertebrate fossils...

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Muang Fa Daet

Settlement in the upper Chi valley, Thailand, the largest moated site in the Khorat. Its three concentric moats and reservoir dated to the Khmer of the late 1st millennium AD. There was farming, trading, bronzeworking, and ironworking. Its material culture resembles Dvaravati.

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Muang Fa Daet

Scatter Diagram

A visual way of presenting data which might otherwise be offered in numerical form. It consists of the plotting of units as dots against an X and a Y axis representing two attributes, so that relationships between attributes as well as relationships between units may be shown. When clustering of ...

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Scatter Diagram

Rustic Ware

A pottery type made principally in northern Britain, a technique occasionally used on flower pots today. Barbotine is applied to the ware and a finger put on the wet clay and lifted off, so the clay has finger forms in ridges and then a point. The term also refers to pottery made by Frenchman Ber...

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Hou-Kang

The type site of a Neolithic culture (also called Honan Lung-shan, Henan Longshan) in Honan province, China, the first to show Yangshao, Honan Longshan, and Shang remains in stratigraphic succession. Other cultural sites are Xiawanggang and Dahe. The radiocarbon dates obtained from Hou-kang are c...

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Hou-Kang

Mesh

The netting of an archaeological sifter, esp. the coarseness or spacing of the strands of the net; (with preceding numeral) a measure of this, usually indicating the number of openings per unit length, or the largest size of particles that can pass through the grid

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Mesh

Syllabic

A term describing scripts in which each of the signs represents a syllable, as in Linear A and B.

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Syllabic

Alashiya

A site mentioned in texts of the 2nd millennium BC as a source of copper; assumed to be Cyprus. The texts also record the workings of the Sea Peoples c 1200 BC.

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Alashiya

Grotta-Pelos

A culture of a series of archaeological sites in the Cyclades (Early Cycladic I), c 3200-2700 BC.

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Grotta-Pelos

Tellem

Pre-Dogon people with large necropolises in Mali, Africa, of the 11th-16th centuries AD. The oldest wood sculptures to survive (dated 15th-17th centuries AD) were found in caves in the Bandiagara escarpment and are attributed to the Tellem. The figures, simplified and elongated in form, often wit...

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Tellem

Gastrolith

A stone or pebble ingested by a fish, reptile, or bird for the purpose of grinding food to aid digestion.

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Gastrolith

Anathermal

Szeleta Cave

Cave site on the Szinva River in the Bükk Mountains of Hungary, occupied from the Middle Palaeolithic. The Upper Palaeolithic with laurel-leaf points and scrapers is dated c 41,700 bp and there are Neolithic remains.

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Szeleta Cave

Stone Zone

A subsurface bed of stones or stone material within a soil that is larger than one layer thick; they may contain archaeological debris. Similar to stone lines, the origin of a stone zone is necessary for interpretation of the archaeological debris within this context.

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Stone Zone

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

French anthropologist and founder of structuralism, a name applied to the analysis of cultures, viewed as systems, in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Structuralism has influenced social science, philosophy, comparative religion, literature, and film. According to Lévi-Stra...

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Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Alveolus

The sockets within the jawbone in which the roots of teeth are set.

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Alveolus

Wooden-Chamber

Large wooden coffins which is an important form of burial chamber from late Neolithic times in China. A log or board enclosure contained nested wooden coffins and grave goods placed on display ledges within them. Wooden-chambers diffused to Korea and Japan in the early centuries AD.

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Wooden-Chamber

Construct

The most basic level of archaeological theory, referring to concepts through which time, space, form, and function are perceived and interpreted.

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Construct

Aichbühl

The site of a Middle Neolithic settlement (end of 3rd millennium BC) on the shores of Lake Federsee in southern Germany. There are foundations of about 25 rectangular houses around the lake. They were built of timber, usually divided into two rooms, and most contained a hearth and clay oven. A la...

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Aichbühl

Lamb Spring

Palaeoindian site in Colorado with camel bones dated to c 13,000 BP. There are also mammoth, bison, and horse bones and later Palaeoindian components.

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Lamb Spring

Predictive Model

The use of GIS and other tools to construct a model of a site location, to predict particular kinds of archaeological sites based on their tendency to occur in the same kinds of place.

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Predictive Model

Igbo Ikwu

A site in southeast Nigeria dating to the 9th century AD with rich Iron Age deposits and bronze objects. It has yielded remarkable evidence for artistic and technological development and accumulation of wealth in that part of West Africa during the closing centuries of the 1st millennium AD. A co...

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Igbo Ikwu

Isoline

A line that represents a constant value, such as the same number of artifacts, on a two-dimensional map.

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Isoline

Panlongcheng

Chinese archaeological site from about the middle of the Shang dynasty period (18th-12th century BC). The site, located near the confluence of the Yangtze and Han-shui rivers in central Hupei, consists of five graves and two storage pits. It is thought to be the southernmost outpost of the politi...

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Panlongcheng

Ringwork

A circular entrenchment, the most modest form of medieval castle, originating in Germany in the later 10th century. Excavations of several of the hundreds of 10th-13th-century ringworks have shown them to be fortified manors. The first ringworks in England were constructed just before the Norman ...

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Ringwork