Cemetery

A place set apart for burial or entombment of the dead.

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Antonine Wall

A defensive fortification on the frontier of the Roman Empire in Scotland, built by the governor Lollius Urbicus for the emperor Antoninus Pius c 142-145 AD. It spans the distance between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, running for 36.5 miles (58.5 km) with 19 forts on its ...

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Arene Candide

A cave site at Finale Ligure on the Italian Riviera whose excavation revealed a stratigraphy extending from the Upper Palaeolithic through Epi-Palaeolithic, to Early, Middle, and Late Neolithic, as well as poor levels from the Bronze and Iron Ages up to the Roman period. There were some rich buri...

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Petrographic Analysis

A technique that analyzes the mineral composition of an artifact's temper and clay through microscopic observation of thin sections

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Petrographic Analysis

Sangoan

Stone tool industry or complex of Sango Bay in Uganda on Lake Victoria, a Mainly Middle Pleistocene series of assemblages containing heavy-duty picks (core axes), handaxes, scrapers, finely flaked lanceolate points, cleavers, and small specialized tools. The Sangoan may have developed from a late...

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Sedimentary Rock

Rock that is the result of consolidation of sediments.

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Sedimentary Rock

Wabet

In ancient Egypt, the place where part of purification or mummification rites took place.

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Trace Element

Elements present in a mineral in minor proportions (between 0.1-2.0%) but which are frequently characteristic of the original source of the material. Trace elements occur naturally in minerals in soils and sediment and are not added deliberately to a substance. Minute amounts of chemical elements...

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Bible

The holy book of the Jewish (Old Testament only) and Christian (Old and New Testaments) faiths. The Old Testament is a collection of writings that was first compiled and preserved as the sacred books of the ancient Hebrew people. As the Bible of the Hebrews and their Jewish descendants down to th...

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Sinan

A district in South Cholla Province, South Korea, where a sunken Yuan merchant ship of the 14th century AD was discovered off the coast. The ship's cargo was Chinese porcelain: more than 17,000 pieces have been recovered, mainly celadon and qingbai wares. Dated coins, 18.5 tons, and many metal, s...

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Archaeological Data

Material collected and recorded as significant evidence by an archaeologist. Archaeological data falls into four classes: artifacts, ecofacts, features, and structures.

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Orissa

A constituent state of eastern India, well known for its Jaina rock-cut temples, dating from the 1st century AD. Over the centuries, the land now called Orissa has passed under the names of Utkala, Kalinga, and Odra Desha, names originally associated with particular peoples.

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Delphic Oracle

The most famous ancient oracle, located at Delphi on the slopes of Mt. Parnassus above the Corinthian Gulf. Traditionally, the oracle first belonged to Mother Earth (Gaea) but later was either given to or stolen by Apollo. At Delphi the medium was a woman over fifty, known as the Pythia, who live...

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Delphic Oracle

Abeurador, Balma

An Epipalaeolithic to Late Neolithic cave site in France with 10 layers of human occupation from c 9000-2500 BC.

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Breastplate

A piece of armor covering the chest

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Arena

The central area of an amphitheatre, usually strewn with sand, where the spectacles and combats too place. The surface was coated with sand either to absorb the blood of the wounded or slain, and also to give a uniformity to the floor and conceal trapdoors and other devices. The term is also used...

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Susa

Major city of western Asia, in Khuzistan, Iran, with its first four phases paralleling those of Mesopotamia (Ubaid, Uruk, Jemdet Nasr, and Early Dynastic). It was the capital of Elam in Akkadian times (3rd, 2nd, 1st millennium BC) and again in the first as a capital of the Achaemenid empire. Susa...

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Bracteate

A coin, medal, dish or ornament made of thin, beaten metal - usually gold or silver. These items were often disk-shaped - hollow on the underside and convex on the upper.

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Dörpfeld, Wilhelm

A German archaeologist who excavated many important prehistoric and classical sites in the Greek world. He worked first under Ernst Curtius on the excavations of Olympia and then assisted Heinrich Schliemann on his third and fourth seasons at Troy, bringing to this work the careful digging and re...

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Mauriwi

The early inhabitants of New Zealand, in the 19th-20th centuries, who were probably conquered by the Maori.

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Mauriwi

Bar And Dot Notation

A Mesoamerican counting system in which a bar stands for 5 and a dot for 1. A stela at Chiapa de Corzo, dating to 36 BC, is the earliest example. The system came to use throughout Mesoamerica and is closely associated with the development of Maya and Zapotec writing.

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Stamping

A kind of impression where a stamp, seal, or die especially made for the purpose, is used to displace pottery fabric near the surface of a plastic or nearly leather-hard vessel and create a pattern or design.

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Murex

A mainly tropical marine snails of the family Muricidae (subclass Prosobranchia of the class Gastropoda); the elongated or heavy shell is elaborately spined or frilled. Found in the Mediterranean, the seashell which provided the purple dye for which the Phoenicians were famous (royal Tyrian purpl...

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Lightfoot, Dr. John

The master of St. Catharine's and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University who in 1642 declared that humans, heaven, and earth all were created by the Trinity on October 23, 4004 BC at nine o'clock in the morning.

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Mineral

A solid homogeneous crystalline chemical element or compound that results from the inorganic processes of nature. The term includes any of various ground substances such as stone, coal, salt, sulfur, sand, petroleum, water, or natural gas. Each of these naturally occurring substances has a charac...

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