Myrtou-Pigadhes

Site of a Late Cypriot settlement and sanctuary in northern Cyprus, built c 1400 BC. The sanctuary was used until c 1175 BC and contained an ashlar alter with horns of consecration.

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Myrtou-Pigadhes

Stratigraphic Excavation

The layers of a site are excavated accroding to their natural shapes and dimensions and in the reverse order to that in which they were deposited.

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Stratigraphic Excavation

Differentiation Rule

A set of differentiation rules determining the range and types of distinctions that can be recorded for each attribute.

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Differentiation Rule

Coffin Texts

A collection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts consisting of spells or magic formulas that are intended to aid the deceased in their passage to the hereafter. The text was painted on or in burial coffins from the First Intermediate period (c 2130-1939 BC) and the Middle Kingdom (1938-c 1600 BC)....

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Coffin Texts

Fraser River

A complex of sites in the Fraser River delta in British Columbia, Canada, showing the sequence of the Northwest Coast Tradition of three periods: Early 1000 BC-1 AD; Intermediate 1-1250 AD; and Late from 1250 AD. Three culturally distinct areas (the Canyon, the Plateau, and the Delta) contain evi...

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Fraser River

Leveling

To establish the height above the site datum of a number of points (spot heights) which will either record the level of the surface of a feature or layer, or enable a contour survey to be constructed. It also means to find the heights of different points in (a piece of land) esp. with a surveyor'...

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Archaeozoology

The study of animal remains, especially bones, from archaeological contexts, including the identification and analysis of faunal species as an aid to reconstructing human diets, determining the impact of animals on past economies, and in understanding the environment at the time of deposition. An...

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Archaeozoology

Burrill Lake

A rock shelter on the southeast coast of New South Wales, Australia, with deposits dated to the Pleistocene c 18,000 BC. Stone artifacts included flake scrapers and dentated saws. Around 3000 BC, Bondi points and other tools of the Australian Small Tool Tradition appeared.

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Burrill Lake

Activity Area

A place where a specific ancient activity was located or carried out, such as food preparation or stone toolmaking. The place usually corresponded to one or more features and associated artifacts and ecofacts. In American archaeology, the term describes the smallest observable component of a sett...

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Activity Area

Vindija Cave

Palaeolithic site near Zagreb, Croatia, with occupation from the Middle Palaeolithic (last interglacial) c 115,000-60,000 bp. Neanderthal remains were in the upper Middle Palaeolithic level; anatomically modern remains in the Gravettian level.

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Vindija Cave

Soil Geomorphology

Study of the interaction of pedogenic and geomorphic processes to interpret landscapes. The physical context of archaeological material is determined and evaluated by soil geomorphic techniques.

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Soil Geomorphology

Serrated Point

An arrowhead with a serrated point, the edges with uniform small indentations in a sawtoothlike pattern

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Serrated Point

Classical Archaeology

A field within historical archaeology specializing in the study of Old World Greek and Roman civilizations, their antecedents and contemporaries.

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Classical Archaeology

Colony

A people or territory separated from but subject to the economic and political control of a ruling power, usually a parent country.

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Colony

Functional Type

A type based on cultural use or function rather than on outward form or chronological position. Classification based on cultural use or function rather than on outward form or chronological position.

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Functional Type

Phylactery

General term which included any kind of amulet worn about the person as a protection against dangers. The name phylactery is derived from the Greek phylakterion, meaning amulet.

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Phylactery

Secondary Products

Materials gained from animals without killing them, e.g. milk, wool.

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Secondary Products

Toftum

Neolithic site in Jutland, Denmark, with a causewayed ditch and material from the Fuchsberg phase c 3400 BC.

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Toftum

Cheese Press

A type of small, flat-bottomed ceramic dish with holes and concentric ridges in the bottom, sometimes with a flat matching lid. Presumed to have been used for making a moist cottage-type cheese.

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Cheese Press

Stanca Ripiceni Cave

Upper Palaeolithic site in eastern Romania with four cultural layers starting c 25,000 bp. There are bifaces, scrapers, and burins in the lowest assemblage and geometric microliths in the uppermost assemblage.

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Stanca Ripiceni Cave

Cmielów

A Funnel Beaker culture settlement site in the Holy Cross Mountains of Poland. There were mines of banded flint, which were used to make cores and axes, and evidence of copper metallurgy.

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Cmielów

Kalundu

A mound site near Kalomo in southern Zambia with an Early Iron Age tradition of the Chifumbaze complex of the same name dating to the 5th-9th centuries AD.

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Kalundu

Movius, Hallam Leonard

American prehistorian who worked in Northern Ireland, southeast Asia, and Abri Pataud, France.

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Movius, Hallam Leonard

Ptolemaic Egypt

Term describing Egypt during the Hellenistic era, when it was ruled by the dynasty of the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter (reigned 305/304-283/282 BC) and his descendants. The Ptolemaic Period was a large-scale experiment in bureaucratic centralism and mercantilism. Egypt was ruled by Ptolemy'...

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Ptolemaic Egypt

Obol

Greek silver coin, six of which equaled a drachma.

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Obol