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Danilo

The eponymous site for the Danilo culture, distributed over central and southern Dalmatia from <4700 be to the early 4th millennium be. Excavated by D. Rendic-Miofcevic and J.Korosec, the site, near Sibenik, consists of large numbers of pits and post holes, whose associated material has been subd...

Danger Cave

Site of long occupation in northwest Utah, USA, containing one of the most complete inventories of material from the Desert Tradition. Characteristic artefacts, such as baskets, manos, metates and small projectile points, were found in abundance. The earliest evidence of human occupation dates to...

Danelaw

An agreement by formal treaty between King Alfred of Wessex and the Danish leader Guthram in 878, establishing a political boundary along the line of the old Roman road, Watling Street, from Chester through Lichfield and Hertford to London. The Danes were given the large area to the east of the l...

Danelaw

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Danekirke

A 5th-century site situated outside Ribe in Western Jutland. It poses interesting archaeological problems as the excavators found traces of only one large timber hall, associated with enormous quantities of imported luxury items including a great deal of West European glass. It may well be a Migr...

Danekirke

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Damb Buthi

A prehistoric site in southwestern Sind, Pakistan, which has produced material of both Amri and Harappan types, but from separate locations on the hill.

Damb Buthi

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Dalton

Complex of cultural traits from the late Paleo-Indian period, centred on the Southeastern United States. It is characterized by the Dalton point, a fish-tailed variation of the Clovis point. Most Dalton sites indicate that major subsistence effort was in hunting deer. There is inconclusive eviden...

Dalriada

In the later 5th century a group of Gaelic-speaking people known as the Scotti travelled from western Ireland to the northeast coast of Scotland (modem Argyllshire). There they founded the kingdom of Dalriada, which was imposed upon a native Pictish population. The Dalriada introduced the Picts t...

Dalriada

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Dalmatia

A Roman province, called after the local tribe of the Delmatae, which corresponds partly to modern Yugoslavia. The whole eastern Adriatic area, roughly equivalent to present-day Yugoslavia and Albania put together, was finally annexed by Rome in 9 ad and became the province of Illyricum, valuable...

Dai Viet

Name of Vietnam during certain periods of its history, notably from the 11th century to the 14th century, when the expansion towards the south and the absorption of the kingdom of Champa began.

Dai Viet

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Daima

A large occupation mound in the extreme northeast of Nigeria, on the seasonally inundated plains adjacent to Lake Chad. The site’s occupation began shortly before the middle of the last millennium be, but reflected the continuation of a life-style that had been established in the area at least 50...

Dadunzi

Neolithic site in Pei Yangshao levels range from c3700 to ¿3050 Xian, northern Jiangsu province, China, with bc. The uppermost Yangshao level represents three main levels named after the nearby sites a late stage of the Miaodigou I culture, known also from Guangwu Qinwangzhai and seen here at the...

Dahe

The site of a Neolithic village, now preserved as a museum, at Zhengzhou in Henan province, China. Several Yangshao levels are overlaid by Hougang II and Shang remains; four radiocarbon dates for the

Da But

A five-metre deep marine shell midden near Thanh-hoa in northern Vietnam, which has produced a mixed Bacsonian and Neolithic stone industry together with ochre-stained burials and pottery. Excavated in the 1920s, the site has recently been dated to ¿4000 be.

Dabban

A blade industry of Cyrenaician Libya, named after the site of Hagfet ed dabba but best known at Haua Fleam. At the latter cave it appears in the sequence c40,000 be, making a sharp break with the preceding Libyan Pre-AuRiGNACiAN. The Dabban is clearly related in some way to the broadly contempor...

Cylindrical Tripod Vase

A ceramic form popular in the Early Classic Period in Mesoamerica and a hallmark artefact of Teotihuacan. As the name suggests, it is cylindrical in shape and stands on three slab or cylindrical legs; it frequently has a knobbed lid.

Cyclopean Masonry

Style of building with large, irregular blocks of stone fitted closely together. It is named after the Greek mythical character Cyclops, thought by the Greeks to have built the walls of Tiryns, which are constructed in this way.

Cuzoul

The rock shelter of Le Cuzoul de Gramat in Lot, southwest France, has a series of Mesolithic levels, mostly Tardenoisian. Well-preserved human remains including a skeleton came from these deposits. Cycladic. Term for the Bronze Age of the Aegean Islands, equivalent to Helladic on the Greek mainla...

Cuzoul

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Cuzco

Still a thriving community, this site of the Inca capital is located in the Urubamba Valley in Peru at an elevation of 3500 metres. A ceremonial centre rather than a population centre, it stood at the intersection of the four administrative quarters of the empire (called Tawantinguyu). Although a...

Cursus

A type of Neolithic earthen monument found in Britain, consisting of a long narrow enclosure or avenue delineated by banks and external ditches. The antiquary William Stukely was the first to identify a monument of this type, near Stonehenge, and he is responsible for the name: he compared the mo...

Currency Bar

Term used to describe long iron objects found in the British late Iron Age and thought to represent a form of currency. Three standard types have been identified — sword, spit and ploughshare; they are thought to represent regional preferences rather than different values.

Curicamcha

See Cuzco.

Curicamcha

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Curia

A Latin term used in the early period of Rome’s history to denote a principal subdivision of the Roman people. Each of the original three tribes of Romulus were subdivided into ten curiae. This division was important for military organization, and for political representation — an early assembly ...

Curacchiaghiu

A rock shelter in southern Corsica with a sequence of deposits from a pre-NEOLiTHic level dated to the 7th millennium be (the earliest evidence of man in Corsica) to the Late Neolithic. A level with 6th millennium be dates had pottery with punctated and incised decoration, and a lithic industry w...

Cupisnique

Centred on the Chicama Valley in north coast Peru, Cupisnique is characterized by ChaviN-like pottery, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as Coastal Chavin. Most often associated with graves, pottery is typically a polished grey-black ware and stirrup-spout vessels are a common form. The...

Cup And Ring Mark

The commonest form of rock carving in the British Isles, consisting of a cup-like depression surrounded by one or more concentric grooves. Cup and ring marks are found on standing stones, on their own or in stone circles, and on the slabs of burial cists, as well as on natural rock surfaces. The ...

Cup And Ring Mark

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Cunnington

(1754-1810). British antiquary who, like his contemporary Colt Hoare, recorded and excavated many barrows and other prehistoric monuments in southern England, especially on Salisbury Plain. His excavations were of good quality for the time, but his work lacked the framework of a classificatory sy...

Cunnington

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Cuniculus

[Latin: ‘a mine’]. Latin military term, usually an area of excavation by a besieging force beneath a fortification wall with the aim of undermining the structure and/or gaining access. The digging soldiers (cunicu-larii) would normally be protected by various structures of wooden posts, shields, ...

Cuniculus

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Cuneiform

Writing system developed in Sumer in the early 3rd millennium bc and used in many areas of western Asia until the last few centuries bc. The system involved making impressions on clay tablets with a wedge-shaped stylus, which has given the script its name (from the Latin cuneus, a wedge, and form...

Cumae

A town in Campania, southwest Italy, best known as one of the first Greek colonies in Italy and the home of the Sibylline oracle. Evidence exists for earlier (Bronze Age) occupation. Lying in the area known to antiquity as the campi phlegraei (‘fiery fields’) because of the volcanic and hot-sprin...

Cuivier

(1769-1832). Eminent French geologist (nicknamed the ‘Pope of Bones’) who was one of the foremost proponents of the catastrophist geological theory, which held that the record of the earth’s surface could only be interpreted in terms of a series of great catastrophes, of which Noah’s Flood was th...

Cuivier

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Cuidadela

See Teotihuacan.

Cuidadela

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Cuicuilco

Located at the southern end of ancient Lake Texcoco, Cuicuilco was the largest and most important centre of the Basin of Mexico in the Late Pre-Classic Period. Early large-scale construction in the form of adobe and stone-faced platforms occur in c400 bc. Cuicuilco appears to have been a thriving...

Cueva De La Sarsa

A cave near Valencia in southeast Spain with Neolithic settlement of the Impressed Ware phase. As well as pottery, finds include polished stone axes, flint tools, bone spatulae and spoons, and stone and bone jewellery. Evidence on the subsistence economy is provided by the remains of carbonized w...

Cueva De La Sarsa

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Cueilo

Site located on a ridge between the Rios Hondo and Nuevo in northern Belize [formerly British Honduras] which is notable for its evidence of early settlement in the Maya Lowlands. Its long stratigraphic and ceramic sequences cover the period from the Early Formative to the Late Classic. The earli...

Cueilo

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Cucuteni-Tripolye

The double-barrelled name indicates national terminology for a more-or-less identical cultural assemblage. Cucuteni, the Rumanian version, distributed over Moldavia, is divided into 4 stages: Pre-Cucuteni, Cucuteni A, AB and B, dating ¿4200-3000 be. Tripolye, the Russian version, spreading eastwa...

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