Barter

A type of direct exchange of different goods, not using any sort of currency, in which each party tries to get an advantage, however slight.

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Barter

Worked

A term used in projectile point descriptions which describes an area of an artifact that has been shaped or altered by man, such as the removal of flakes along a blade edge

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Worked

Wace, Alan

British archaeologist who was director of the British School at Athens and excavated in Laconia, Thessaly, and Mycenae. He discovered one of the earliest royal burials at Mycenae, a grave circle consisting essentially of vertical shafts cut into bedrock.

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Wace, Alan

Athribis

An important Egyptian city in the Nile delta with, to this point, only the remains of a Greco-Roman settlement.

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Athribis

Terrasse, Henri

French archaeologist who worked on Hispano-Moorish art from its beginnings to the 13th century. He is known as the discoverer of the Hispano-Maghreb world and a pioneer of systematic research.

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Terrasse, Henri

Re-Use Process

The transformation of materials through successive states within the behavioral system. Potsherds, for example, are sometimes ground up to be used as temper in making new vessels.

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Re-Use Process

Maize

A tall cereal grass widely grown in Mexico, South America, and the US which originated as a staple food in Mexico about 9000 years ago. A field of maize is a milpa. No wild maize appears to exist today. The plant originated in the Central Mexican Highlands, where pollen belonging to maize, or one...

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Maize

Church

A building used for collective Christian worship, the performance of ceremonies, pilgrimages, and the veneration of relics. The earliest churches were hidden in caves and catacombs. With the official acceptance of Christianity in the 4th century, larger buildings were built specifically for commu...

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Church

As

A small Roman bronze coin, four of which made a sestertius and sixteen a denarius

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As

Sample

Any subset of a population; a set of units selected from a population. In statistics, a sample refers to a representative group of objects, cases or items, selected from a larger population. The degree to which a sample is truly representative is controlled by the size of the sample and biasing f...

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Sample

Vallonnet

Lower Palaeolithic cave site in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France with stone artifacts associated with a fauna datable to c 0.9 million years ago.

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Vallonnet

Naram-Sin

Akkadian king who reigned c 2254-2218 BC, the grandson of Sargon and the last great ruler of the Akkadian empire.

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Naram-Sin

Tombstone

A stone placed across a grave.

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Tombstone

Grooved Ware

A pottery style of the British Late Neolithic, widely distributed c 2750-1850 BC. The characteristic vessel is flat-based with straight vertical or outward sloping walls. It was formerly known as Rinyo-Clacton after two widely separated findspots (Clacton in Essex and Rinyo in the Orkney Islands)...

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Grooved Ware

Blind Test

An experiment by one archaeologist while another archaeologist does the analysis of that experiment.

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Blind Test

Les Combarelles

A long narrow cave just outside Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, southwest France, where thousands of superimposed engravings from the late Aurignacian through the middle Magdalenian periods were discovered. The engravings are dominated by horses, bison, bear, reindeer, mammoth, and andropomorphs. The...

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Les Combarelles

Zong

Chinese artifact, a tube of jade with square outer and round inner perimeter, of unknown symbolism to the southern Neolithic cultures of China. Examples vary widely in size and proportions and have also been found at both Shang and Zhou (Chou) sites. They are often decorated with the taotie desig...

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Zong

Piston Corer

A device for extracting columns of sediment from the ocean floor. Deeper cores are taken by the piston corer, which can take samples as long as 20 meters. In a piston corer, a closely fitted piston attached to the end of the lowering cable is installed inside the coring tube. When the coring tube...

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Piston Corer

Bracer

A wristguard used in archery, fencing, and other sports

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Bracer

Fosse Way

A Roman road in England, from Devon to Lincoln (southwest to northeast), marking the line originally chosen by the invading Romans as the frontier of the new province before 47 AD. The road was needed to link a line of forts. The line, however, proved unsatisfactory and the frontier was soon push...

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Fosse Way

Kebarian

A stone-tool culture in Kebara (Kebareh) Cave of Mount Carmel, Israel. It is from the early Levantine Epipalaeolithic (c 20,000-14,500 BP, after the local Upper Palaeolithic. The nomadic hunter-gatherers worked with wild cereals and the flint industry was characterized by bladelets and microliths...

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Kebarian

Jiangling

A county seat of the Ch'in dynasty (221-206 BC) in third century BC China. Western Chou, Eastern Zhou, and Han remains as well as burials containing painted lacquers are of interest. Chiang-ling was also a center of a handicraft-textile industry, which was developed on a large scale by the Ch'ing...

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Jiangling

Quartzite

Metamorphic rock based on sandstone and consisting mostly of quartz; it is dense hard rock that fractures concoidally. Flaked tools were made of quartzite when there was no chert or flint and it was important for heavy monumental building stone. Pebbles of it were made into hammerstones and hand ...

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Quartzite

Kaya

A confederation of polities (tribal league) on the southern Korean coast formed before the 3rd century AD. The Kaya confederation developed trade largely by sea with the Chinese capital at Lo-yang and with Wae, Japan. The people of Kaya are thought to have been closely related to the tribes that ...

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Kaya

Signature

Traces in the archaeological record that can be linked to particular patterns of activity.

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Signature