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Xanthian Marbles This collection of "marbles" (low-relief statuary) from various Greek temples and tombs in Asia Minor weas exhibited in the British Museum, courtesy of their owner, Charles Fellowes, and the British government, which paid for the shipping of the artefacts. The title "Xanthian Marbles" was somewha...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Xanthian Marbles Xanthos Mermerleri, Antik Likya'nın ana kenti Xanthos'ta bulunan heykeller. Kentin en dikkat çekici kalıntıları, bu devasa kayalara oyulmuş sütun mezarlarıdır. İngiliz arkeolog Sir Charles Fellows tarafından 19. yüzyılda kabartmalar ve mezar İngiltere'ye British Museum'a kaçırılmıştır. Figürler ...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Others

Gilgamesh En ünlü Sümer destanının kahramanı, Mezopotamya'da İ.Ö. 3. binyılın başlarına ait ünlü bir figürdür. Gılgamış, literatürde yarı tanrı yarı insan olarak kabul edilmiştir.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Others

Zoque See Chiapa de Corza.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zong Zhou [Tsung Chou]. See Zhou capitals.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zong [¡sung, ts’ung]. Chinese jade object made in the shape of a tube with square outer and round inner perimeter. Examples vary widely in size and proportions. Zong have been found at both Shang and Zhou sites but may have been more common in Neolithic times. The earliest examples come from 3rd mille...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zfota Settlement and cemetery site of the Neolithic-Copper Age in southern Poland. The community lived by farming and the exploitation of nearby flint mines. They lived in simple square houses made of wattle and daub, while the dead were buried in cist graves. Grave goods include cord ornamented pots, ...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zlaty Kun A cave near Beroun in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Two partial skulls from this site are associated with Szeletian (early Upper Palaeolithic) artefacts. They are of broadly Cromagnon type but also have surviving Neanderthal features, as is typical at this time. There are no radiocarbon dates from thi...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Ziwiye Tell site near Saqqiz in Azerbaijan, northwest Iran. It was a fortified city of the local Mannaeans in the 1st millennium bc. Very little scientific excavation has taken place, although the site has been looted over a long period. The most famous discovery is a hoard of gold, silver and ivory obj...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Ziwa A local Early Iron Age variant in the Inyanga area of Zimbabwe, closely related to the Gokomere tradition.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zinjanthropus Name originally given to a robust Australopithecus from Olduvai Gorge. This fossil is now usually classified as Australopithecus boisei or Australopithecus robustus. See also human evolution.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zimbabwe Contrary to popular usage, which applies the name to a single site, this term, which is believed to be derived from the Shona, is correctly applied to many stone-built enclosures located in the plateau country between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers of southern Africa. The major site near Fort Vic...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Ziggurat The name given to the great stepped temple towers of the Mesopotamian civilizations — Sumer, Babylon and Assyria.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zhuangbo [Chuang-po]. SccFufeng.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zhouyuan [Chou-yiian]. See Zhou capitals.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zhoukoudian [Choukoutien]. A locality 42 km southwest of Beijing [Peking], China, famous for the very numerous human fossils of ‘Peking man’ found in deposits of possibly 400,000 to 800,000 years ago. Over 40 individuals are represented and most of the bones of the skeleton are known; this has become one of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zhou For several generations before their overthrow of the Shang dynasty, the Zhou were settled in the Wei River valley of Shaanxi province, China. They are reported in later histories to have shifted their pre-dynastic capital several times, on one occasion to a place that the texts call Zhouyuan, ‘t...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zhou [Chou]. The longest dynasty in Chinese history, founded in the 12th or 11th century bc (see Shang) and surviving until 256 bc. The Zhou period is subdivided into Western Zhou, when the capital was in Shaanxi province, and Eastern Zhou, which began in 770 bc with the transfer of the capital eastwa...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zhongzhoulu [Chung-chou-lu]. See Luo-yang.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zhongyuan [Chung-yuan], Literally the Central Plain, an area of North China, comprising the river basins and alluvial plains of the Wei River (central Shaanxi province) and the Yellow River east of its confluence with the Wei (southern Shanxi, northern Henan, southern Hebei, and western Shandong). Capitals...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zhongshan [Chung-shan]. SeePiNGSHAN.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zhong [chung]. See bells (China).Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zhob A valley in northern Baluchistan, Pakistan, with a number of sites of the 4th and 3rd millennia bc, of which the best known are Periano Ghundai and Moghul Ghundai. The so-called ‘Zhob cult’ phase of the 3rd millennium bc is characterized by goggle-eyed hooded female figurines of a type labelled ‘...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zhi [chih]. See ritual vessels (China).Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zhengzhou [Cheng-chou]. A modern city south of the Yellow River in Henan province, China. Zhengzhou is the site of a large Bronze Age city, probably a capital of the Shang dynasty. The major part of the occupation predates the Anyang period and belongs to the Erligang phase (named after a type site near Zh...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zhanguo [Chan-kuo]. The Warring States period, 475-221 bc. See Zhou.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zhangjiapo [Chang-chia-p’o]. A Western Zhou site near the Feng River in Chang an Xian southwest of Xi’an, China. Extensive Western Zhou remains in this area may be connected with the Zhou capitals Feng and Hao (see also Puducun). Early Zhou finds at Zhangjiapo include modest tombs similar in construction to...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zengbvarkony Large settlement and cemetery of the Late Neolithic Lengyel culture, located near Pecs in south Trans-danubia, Hungary, and dated to much of the 4th millennium be. Excavated by J. Dombay, the site consists of clusters of graves interspersed with areas of settlement debris. This pattern is consist...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zemi A deity central to the religion of Arawakan groups in northeastern South America and the Caribbean (e.g. Taino). Represented in both human and animal form, zemis were commonly portrayed on household utensils as well as in loci of worship such as caves or possibly temples built from organic materi...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zelena Pecina Cave site of the Neolithic and Copper Age, situated above a side valley of the Neretva River near Mostar, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia. Three occupations are known from A. Benac’s excavations. Level III is an Early Neolithic Impressed Ware occupation with scanty StarCevo pottery imports, associated with ...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zebbug A group of five rock-out tombs on the island of Malta. This site has given its name to a phase in the prehistoric sequence of the Maltese Islands, dated to the 4th millennium bc and misleadingly labelled Copper Age, in spite of the absence of any evidence for the use of metal on Malta at this time.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zayosal See Jain a.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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Zawi Chemi Shanidar A site of the Karim Shahir culture near the Zab River in northern Iraq, 6 km from the Shanidar cave. This openair site provides important evidence of early stock control, associated with a radiocarbon date of c8640 be. High proportions of immature sheep, especially in the upper levels, were origi...Added by archaeologs | English|Others

Zarzi A cave in northern Iraq which has given its name to the Zarzian final Upper Palaeolithic culture in which microlithic tools are present.Added by archaeologs | English|Others

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