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Dhimini

Small fortified settlement in Thessaly, northern Greece, which has given its name to the local late Neolithic. The settlement occupied c0.5 hectares and contains houses and a larger building in megaron form. The finely decorated pottery is painted in black or sometimes white on a yellow or buff s...

Dhar Tichitt

Located in south-central Mauritania on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Dhar Tichitt sites provide a clear, dated picture of the local beginings of cereal cultivation. Wild sorghum and bulrush millet are indigenous to the area. Around 2000 be there were extensive lakes at Dhar Tichitt,...

Devon Downs

Limestone shelter in cliffs beside the lower Murray River in South Australia. The two-metre deep deposit, rich in faunal material as well as stone and bone tools, was excavated by H. Hale and N.B. Tindale in 1929, as was the nearby open site of Tart-anga. This was the first systematic archaeologi...

Devils Lair

Limestone cave near the southwest coast of Western Australia, containing deep, well-preserved organic and stone deposits dating from the late Pleistocene. Human occupation debris was relatively sparse and occurred mainly between levels dated to 27,000 and 10,000 be. The stone assemblage included ...

Devils Lair

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Deverel-Rimbury

Middle to Late Bronze Age culture of southern England, named after two burial sites in Dorset. Palisaded farmsteads, nucleated settlements and some hillforts of this culture are known and many Celtic field systems are recorded. The dead were cremated and placed in globular, barrel-or bucket-shape...

Deverel-Rimbury

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Devensian

A group of British, mainly glacial, deposits, stratified above Ipswichian interglacial deposits (see Table 6, page 419). Much of northern England, Scotland and Wales is covered by a blanket of Devensian tills, sands and gravels. These sediments were deposited by an ice-sheet which spread out from...

Devaraja

[Sanskrit: ‘God-King’]. Name of a Hindu religious mode, known as the Devaraja cult, which prevailed in the kingdom of Angkor, Cambodia, from the 9th to the 13th centuries. It was based on the belief that during his lifetime the king was the incarnation or representation of a Hindu god, with whom ...

Devaraja

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Desert Tradition

Posí-Pleistocene adaptation to the arid environment of the Great Basin area of the western USA, which continues to be practised in some areas to this day. It is characterized by the utilization of a wide variety of food sources. Both big and small game animals as well as numerous plant species we...

Desert Tradition

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Deserted Medieval Village

The fossilized remains of hamlets and villages in Western Europe with earthworks or walls representing the church, the manor, the dwellings, and other features associated with medieval rural life. Some settlements were deserted each century, but many of these villages were abandoned following the...

Deserted Medieval Village

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Desborough

The find spot in central England of a lst-century bc bronze mirror, with fine engraved decoration in the insular British La T₺ne art style.

Desborough

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Denekamp Interstadial

An interstadial of the Weichs elian cold stage. It is dated to around 28,000 be.

Dendrochronology

The construction of chronologies from tree-ring sequences. Dendrochronology can be used as a dating method for timbers in buildings and other archaeological sites. It has also been used with great success for the calibration of radiocarbon dates. Tree-ring sequences are also used as indicators of...

Denbigh Flint Complex

The type collection for the Arctic Small Tool Tradition which was first excavated at Cape Denbigh on Norton Bay, Alaska. The site yielded a radiocarbon date of 2000 be, which became a landmark in the chronology of Arctic cultures. Denbigh artefacts have been found at numerous Arctic sites, notabl...

Demography

The study of population. It is difficult to study the size of ancient human populations, since it is most unlikely that skeletons excavated from sites in a given area represent the local population size reliably. However, age and sex may be determined from most human skeletons, and study of the p...

Delos

Tiny central member of a group of islands in the central Aegean known to antiquity as the Cyclades (from the Greek kuklos, ‘circle’) because they encircled the holy island of There is evidence for some late Neolithic and some Mycenaean settlement. Sometime early in the 1st millennium BC associat...

Deloraine Farm

A site near Rongai in the Rift Valley highlands of central Kenya, dated late in the 1st millennium ad. Domestic cattle were herded in large numbers. The associated pottery is unlike that found on Pastoral Neolithic sites: the relatively small number of chipped obsidian artefacts recovered suggest...

Deloraine Farm

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Dejbjerg

A bog site in west Jutland, where two pre-Roman Iron Age vehicles were found, believed to be imports from South Gaul. They were decorated with openwork bronze, bronze masks, bosses and lattice work. The wheels had iron tyres and pegs of hard wood to act as ball-bearings.

Deir El Bahari

A location at Thebes in Upper Egypt, the site of several temples, notably the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, daughter of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Thutmosis I, who reigned over Egypt in her own right 1511-1480 bc. The temple includes a series of colonnaded terraces. Particular interest...

Deir El Bahari

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Deep Sea Cores

Since the development of the piston corer in 1947, it has been possible to take long cores of sediment from the ocean bottom. A wide variety of such sediment exists, but those most studied have been the oozes. Oozes form by accumulation of the dead skeletons of foraminifera and radiolaria, togeth...

Deep Sea Cores

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Dechelette

(1862-1914). French archaeologist who produced a masterly synthesis of European prehistory in the early part of this century. Entitled Manuel d’Archeol-ogie Préhistorique, Celtique et Gallo-romaine, the first volume — on prehistory — was published in 1908; the second part came out in separate vol...

Dechelette

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Debeira West

An extensive village site in Nubia, occupied between the 7th and 13th centuries. Excavation of its two-storey brick buildings has yielded a clear picture of its inhabitants’ life-style. Dates and sorghum were cultivated with the aid of irrigation; cattle, pigs, sheep and goats were herded. The vi...

Debeira West

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Ancient Hebrew manuscripts found in a cave near the ruin of Khirbet Qumran, north-west of the Dead Sea, in 1947. They are believed to be the library of the monastery at Qumran, occupied by an extreme religious sect known as the Essenes between 100 BC and ad 100. The library included all the Old T...

Dazaifu

The remains of the centre of frontier adminstration near Fukuoka, Japan. Established shortly after Japan’s spectacular defeat in the Korean campaign of 663, Dazaifu remained an important outpost of the government in the western frontier for the next few centuries. The Dazaifu area, with adminstra...

Davis

(1811-88). American doctor who together with E.G. Squier studied the prehistoric mounds of the eastern USA.

Davis

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Daub

A clay-based material, acting as the matrix in a wattle and daub wall. The daub is plastered on to the wattle framework and allowed to dry, forming a quick and relatively weathertight structure. The imprint of wattle has survived on some ancient daub from archaeological sites.

Dating

The determination of a date for objects, deposits and buildings is at the centre of all archaeology. In later periods this may be accomplished by historical methods (e.g. coin dating) but if such evidence is not available other methods have to be used. Cross dating and seriation or sequence datin...

Database Management System

Computer program that stores information and allows it to be retrieved in any desired combination or order. Filing systems of various kind are already widely used in archaeology; database management systems are merely an extension of these.

Database Management System

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Darwin

(1809-82). The founder of evolutionary theory, which he expounded in his seminal work Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, published in 1859. Its particular relevance for archaeology was to boost the acceptance of the anti...

Darwin

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Dar Es Soltan

A cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, some 200 km south of Tangier, where excavation has revealed a late Aterian industry associated with human remains of Mechta-Afalou type. Later levels contain a long sequence of iBEROMAURUSiAN-related industries.

Dar Es Soltan

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Dara-I Kur

See Aq Kupruk.

Dara-I Kur

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Dapenkeng

[Ta-p’en-k’eng]. A Neolithic site in Taiwan, near Taibei, characterized by coarse cord-marked pottery of a kind widely represented at sites in south and southeastern China that fall somewhere between the late 5 th and the 3rd millennium bc. The relationship of this corded-ware Neolithic, sometime...

Dapenkeng

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Danzantes

Stone slab, bas-relief carvings dating to c lOO bc - ad 100 (see also PreClassic) that flank the earliest flat-topped mound at Monte Alban, Mexico. They depict nude male figures, some with mutilated or elaborately emphasized sexual organs, in unnatural dancing or possible swimming poses. Sometime...

Dantu

A district just south of the Yangzi River in Jiangsu province, China. A Western Zhou tomb found in 1954 at Dantu Yandunshan contained a few pieces of glazed pottery and 12 bronze ritual vessels. The inscription on one of the bronzes, a GUI of conventional early Western Zhou style, names the marqu...

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