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Pyriform

Law Of Superposition

The principle that states that in any pile of sedimentary rocks that have not been disturbed by folding or overturning, the strata on the bottom will have been deposited first. This is the principle that the sequence of observable strata, from bottom to top, reflects the order of deposition, from...

Law Of Superposition

Petroform

A row of rocks or boulders configured on the ground in the shape of an animal, mythological figure, etc.

Petroform

Heijo

The site of an 8th century AD palace and the capital of the Ritsuryo state in Nara Prefecture, Japan. The seat of the government from 710-784, the grid-city plan includes remains of some 500 buildings, including royal residences, administrative quarters, warehouses, and workshops. Of particular i...

Heijo

Bean

The seed or pod of certain leguminous plants of the family Fabaceae and important to man since the beginning of food production. Most modern beans are of the genus Phaseolus, different species of which occur wild in two hemispheres. Their cultivation commenced at an early date in both. These spec...

Bean

Beit El-Wali

A rock-cut temple on the west bank of the Nile (Lower Nubia), which was dedicated to Amun-Ra and built during the reign of Rameses II (1279-1213 BC).

Beit El-Wali

Hascherkeller

A Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age site of the Hallstatt period in Bavaria, Germany. The farmsteads enclosed by earthworks showed pottery and bronze casting activities in the 1st millennium BC. It is typical of the period in central Europe before the emergence of large centers of production and...

Hascherkeller

Pedogenesis

The interaction of the physical, chemical, and biological factors, processes, and conditions that cause a soil to evolve into a soil horizon.

Pedogenesis

Bonobo

A small species of chimpanzee, closely related to humans

Bonobo

Persian Gulf Trade

The maritime trading of the 3rd and early 2nd millennia BC between Mesopotamia and Dilmun, Magain, and Meluhha. The busiest Mesopotamian sites were Lagash and Ur and the other three places' names are known from cuneiform texts. Combined with archaeological information, it has been determined that...

Persian Gulf Trade

Onomasticon

A Greek thesaurus of terms, a type of ancient text consisting of lists of various categories of names, from plants and animals to cities or professions. The onomastica were presumably intended to serve both as repositories of knowledge and as training exercises for scribes.

Onomasticon

Form Attribute

Attribute based on the physical characteristics of an artifact, including overall shape, shape of parts, and measurable dimensions - leading to form classification

Form Attribute

Netting Needle

A needle for making and mending nets, often forked at both ends, and with a hollow centre in which the thread or twine being used can be conveniently wound.

Netting Needle

Habiline

An early member of the genus Homo, including Homo habilis, known from fossils in Africa dating from 2 million to about 1.5 million years ago. There is much disagreement concerning the evolutionary place of this species, but H. habilis is generally accepted as the earliest member of the genus Homo...

Habiline

Point Provenience

The location (provenience) of a specific object at an exact point on a site.

Point Provenience

Facies

Any subgroup of elements within an industry or main culture tradition that is distinguished from the whole on the basis of some aspect of appearance or composition. A major division of a cultural sequence, such as the Mousterian culture of the European Palaeolithic, is often described as having d...

Facies

Half-Life

The time taken for half of a given amount of a radioactive substance to decay into a non-radioactive substance. It is also defined as the time taken for half the quantity of a radioactive isotope in a sample to decay and form a stable element. It is the basis of radiocarbon and other radiometric ...

Half-Life

Dice

A small cube with faces bearing from one to six spots, used in games of chance

Dice

Oscillum

In Roman architecture, an ornament of marble suspended from the architrave of a peristyle in a house. Some are circular with reliefs cut on both faces; others are theatrical masks.

Oscillum

Medial Axis

The middle of an imaginary line about which a body rotates or with respect to which it possesses rotational symmetry

Medial Axis

Laussel

A rock shelter near Les Eyzies in Dordogne, southwest France with a long sequence of Mousterian and Upper Palaeolithic levels. The site is best known for its bas-relief carvings, especially the female figure holding a horn or 'cornucopia'.

Laussel

Colt Hoare, Sir Richard

British antiquary who established the techniques of archaeological excavation in Britain. He excavated a large number of barrows (mostly on Salisbury Plain), classified and published his findings. He also recorded many other monuments of the area. However, at the time there was no means of dating...

Colt Hoare, Sir Richard

Herat

A town and province in western Afghanistan, important in pre-Islamic times and sometimes identified as the capital of the Achaemenid satrapy of Aria and the Hellenistic city of Alexandria Ariana. The principal monuments of Herat were built in the reigns of the Timurid rulers Shah Rukh (1405-1447)...

Herat

Ghana

The earliest and one of the most important of the West African empires, on the border of southern Mauretania and Mali and dating from at least the 8th century AD. It may have arisen as an organization of agricultural people who fought Saharan nomads. This early Sudanic state was well-established ...

Ghana

Banjica

A settlement on the slopes of the Avala Hill in Belgrade, Serbia. One of the horizons has been dated to c 3760 BC. The culture is Vinca and some complete house plans have been recovered with details of food preparation, weaving,, working pits, etc. Pottery with incised signs might indicate ritual...

Banjica