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Senina

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Selevac

One of the largest open settlements of the Early VinCa period, Selevac extends over 80 hectares of gently sloping hillside in the Konjska basin, northern Serbia, Yugoslavia. Four occupation levels were detected in the central part of the site, excavated by R. Tringham and D. Krstic and dated c430...

Seleucid

Macedonian-Greek dynasty founded by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great’s generals, who managed to piece back together virtually all of Alexander’s eastern empire after the king’s death, to make a domain stretching from Anatolia and Syria to Afghanistan. The dynasty is usually dated fr...

Seleucid

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Seibal

Lowland Maya site, located on a high bluff overlooking the Pasion River in the Peten Province of Guatemala. Although there is evidence of occupation in the Middle PreClassic (e.g. Xe pottery and a cache of OLMEC-style jade axes) its period of maximum activity is in the Late Classic between ad 830...

Sehonghong

See Moshebi’S Shelter.

Segovia

[Roman Segobriga]. A local oppidum in central Spain of obscure history before 80 bc, when it came under Roman control, and famous today for its grand-scale aqueduct. Even for the Roman town, information is not plentiful, but the investment represented by this massive structure must presuppose a c...

Segmented Cist

A type of megalithic tomb in which the burial chamber is divided into a number of compartments by the use of septal slabs or jambs. Alternatively these tombs are sometimes labelled segmented gallery graves. Good examples occur in the British Isles among the Clyde Carlingford tombs.

Seeds

A variety of seeds may be preserved on archaeological sites by charring, as grain impressions, or as a result of waterlogging. They may be the seeds of weed plants, fruits, pulses (see beans), or the grains of cereals (see BARLEY, MAIZE, MILLET, OATS, RICE, RYE, WHEAT). Segesta [Greek Egesta]. An...

Seeds

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Sediments

Deposits of accumulated fragmentary material. Some sediments of archaeological sites are directly man-made, deposited as parts of structures or as a result of waste disposal. Other sediments arise from the erosion and decay of structures. In addition, sediments may be affected by soiL-forming pro...

Sediments

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Section

Term used to describe the vertical site records of an archaeological excavation. It is applied both to the standing vertical face preserving the stratigraphy of a feature or area and to the drawing of such a face. Advocates of open-area excavation prefer not to have standing sections on the site;...

Sea Level

The long-term level of the sea varies in two ways: (1) Changes in the volume of water held in the sea, known as eustatic sea level change; (2) Relative movements of the land surface, resulting from various types of deformation of the earth’s crust. Many such forms of crustal deformation are known...

Sdok Kak Thom

A site in northwestern Cambodia, famous for a stele of the 11th century. It bears a detailed inscription relating the foundation of the kingdom of Angkor in 802 (for which there are no contemporary epigraphical sources) and its history until the time of writing. See also Kulen.

Sdok Kak Thom

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Scramasax

A cross between an iron hacking sword and a dagger, with an angled back and single sharp cutting-edge. They commonly occur in Migration Period and AngloSaxon contexts until about the 10th century. These weapons tended to become increasingly elaborate: many were finely inlaid with a variety of met...

Scotti

See Dalriada.

Scotti

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Schliemann

(1822-90). German scholar famous for his excavations at the Aegean Bronze Age sites of Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns. He spent most of his life in business and made a fortune in international finance before he embarked on work in the Aegean to support his long-held view that Homer’s epics were true an...

Schliemann

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Schist Hones

Whetstones made of mica-schist from the highly distinctive Eisdborg rocks of southern Norway were widely distributed on all classes of sites all around the North Sea throughout the medieval period. A 9th-century boat carrying these hones was recently found near Kaupang.

Sceatta

[sceat]. Small silver coins minted from about 690 until about 790 in the southern English and Frisian kingdoms. Sceattas are distinctive because they were made from pellets which were hammered between two dies, not minted from a flattened piece of metal (as after c790 in England). The earliest sc...

Scapulimancy

See oracle bones.

Scapulimancy

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Saxon Shore

[Latin: litus saxonicum]. The name litus saxonicum occurs first in a late Roman historian (Ammianus Marcellinus, xxvii, 8.1, concerning 367 ad), but was probably in use earlier. It denoted the southeastern coastline of Roman Britain, from the Wash to Southampton, and probably about 200 ad onwards...

Sawankhalok

An ancient city in northern Thailand, known mainly for the celadon-like glazed pottery which its kilns, established in the 14th century, produced for centuries. The ware was exported to countries throughout the region, notably the Philippines and Indonesia. There are also Khmer remains at the sit...

Sawankhalok

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Savai’I Island

See Pulemelei.

Savai’I Island

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Sauveterrian

Two rock shelters at this locality in Lot et Garonne, southwest France, have revealed a sequence of Mesolithic deposits. Over the late Magda-lenian are found Azilian, Sauveterrian and Tardenoisian layers. A skull buried in Roc Allan is probably Sauveterrian.

Satsumon

Name given to the HAJi-like pottery made in Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan, from about 800 to 1300, and to the culture characterized by this pottery. Satsumon houses are very much like Late Kofun houses, such as those found at Nakada in central Honshu. Iron tools were used to grow millet, bu...

Sati

An Indian term describing the practice of a widow accompanying her husband to the grave. Archaeologists have sometimes used the term when they believe they have archaeological evidence of this practice: for instance, when a female burial is found in the same grave as a male burial, especially if ...

Sati

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Sassanian

Persian dynasty which ruled in Iran from c 224 ad when Ardashir Papakan revolted against the Parthians, until 651, when their empire was brought to an end by the Moslems. The Sassanian empire extended from India to Syria; in the west they were frequently in conflict with the Romans. Archaeologica...

Sarsen

Type of sandstone found on the Marlborough downs of Wiltshire, southern England, the remnants of a once much larger deposit from the Tertiary period. It was used by prehistoric man for the construction of megalithic tombs and for the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge, the latter site ...

Sarnath

A site in northeast India, famous as the place where the Buddha gave his first sermon. The emperor Asoka visited the site on his pilgrimage of 249 BC and set up a commemorative pillar, surmounted by a fine lion capital. There is also a small temple, also of the 3rd century bc.

Sarawak

See Borneo, Malaysia, Niah.

Sarawak

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Sarab

An early farming site near Kermanshah in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran. The site is at an altitude of 1300 metres and has produced little in the way of structures: it may have been seasonally occupied only, either belonging to a semi-nomadic herding community or representing a summer pastu...

Sarab

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Saqqara

A major necropolis in Lower Egypt, adjacent to modern Abusir and close to Memphis. The pharaohs of the Second Dynasty were buried here in graves which were clearly a development and elaboration of the type of royal tomb constructed in First Dynasty times at Abydos. With the passage of time burial...

Santubong

A complex of open sites on the delta of the Sarawak River in southwestern Sarawak, Borneo. Most sites date between 900 and 1350 and contain evidence for iron-smelting, large quantities of Chinese pottery, and local pottery of Tanjong Kubor type. There is a possible Tantric Buddhist shrine at Bong...

Santiago De Compostella

See pilgrim.

Santiago De Compostella

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Santa Ana

Very extensive proto-historical burial ground, now in a suburb of Manila, Philippines, which produced extended burials with large quantities of Chinese monochrome and early blue-and-white pottery of the Sung Dynasty (probably 11th to early 14th century ad). See aZsoCalatagan.

Santa Ana

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San Pedro

Most recent of the chronological periods of the Cochise culture. Typically, tool assemblages contain seed-grinding tools such as manos and metates, and a variety of projectile points, including the narrow stemmed, side-notched type which first appeared during Chiricahua. Sites generally became la...

San Lorenzo

Earliest of the major Olmec ceremonial centres and a site of long occupation. Located in the open country around the Rio Chiquito in southern Veracruz, Mexico, its main construction, oriented on a north-south axis, rests on an artifically modified salt dome. This plateau has a series of man-made ...

Sankisa

Holy Buddhist site in the upper Ganges Valley, India, where the Buddha is said to have descended from heaven. It was visited by the emperor Asoka in his pilgrimage of 249 BC and retains the commemorative pillar with its elephant capital erected on that occasion.

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