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Aroids

The edible tubers of the family A raceae were of major importance in prehistoric Oceanic subsistence, and of sporadic importance through South and Southeast Asia. The major species, grown from India to Oceania, is Colocasia esculenta (taro), which is irrigated in terraced or bunded fields in many...

Aroids

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Arlit

See Tenere Neolithic.

Arles

[Roman Arelate]. City in southern France. A Celto-Greco-Roman town of Gallia Narbonensis (see Gaul) was situated on the left bank of the Rhone, close to the head of the delta. Very little is known of the Celto-Greek settlement, traditionally colonized by the Phocaeans. Significant history probabl...

Arkin

Location near Wadi Haifa in the Nubian Nile Valley, where a number of Stone Age sites have been investigated. Of particular interest are factory sites for the preparation of rough-outs for foliate points of the local Later Mousterian tradition, These factories, the products of which also show aff...

Ariu§d

[Eròsd]. The eponymous site of a small regional painted ware variant of the Cucu-teni-Tripolye culture. The site, one of the few tells found in southeast Transylvania, is in the catchment of the Upper Olt Valley, Rumania. Excavated by F. Làszló, the site has seven occupation horizons. Levels I-VI...

Ariu§d

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Ariana

SccAlaca Huyùk.

Ariana

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Arimaddanapura

Original name of the city of Pagan in northern Burma, founded in 849.

Arimaddanapura

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Ankara

See Middle Missouri tradition.

Ankara

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Arikamedu

Site on the Madras coast of southern India, excavated by Mortimer Wheeler. A native Iron Age settlement with Black and Red wares, it yielded evidence of abundant trading contact with the Romans from the mid-1st century bc onwards, attested by finds of Arretine ware, Mediterranean amphorae and Rom...

Argali

See sheep.

Argali

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Arezzo

See Arretium.

Arezzo

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Arene Candide

Cave site at Finale Ligure on the Italian Riviera, with a stratigraphy extending from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Late Neolithic and, at a poorer level, through to the Roman period. The site was excavated in the 1940s by Bernabò Brea and played an important role in his interpretation of the Neo...

Arena

[Latin: ‘sand’]. The central area in particular of an amphitheatre, which was originally surfaced with a simple sandy floor. When more sophisticated technology was developed ‘understage’, the surface was often still coated with sand to give an overall uniformity and to conceal trapdoors and other...

areca nut

See betel nut.

areca nut

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Arcy sur Cure

Group of caves some 160 km southeast of Paris with good examples of Upper Palaeolithic art. The Grotte du Cheval has a series of engravings including a fine mammoth. Archaeologically the most important are the Grotte de 1’Hyene and the Grotte du Renne. ‘Hyena cave’ has early occupation levels of ...

Arcy sur Cure

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Archaic Maiolica

Great range of jugs and bowls carefully decorated with geometric motifs, leaves and other forms outlined in brown and set in green or brown backgrounds. These wares were made from the early 13 th century until the 16th century in many Tuscan and north Italian towns, with certain specialized pots,...

Archaeomagnetism

See palaeomagnetism.

Archaeomagnetism

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Arboreal

To do with trees. In pollen analysis, arboreal pollen types may be distinguished from shrub pollen and herbaceous pollen. Hazel is usually separated from other trees in calculating proportional pollen counts.

Arawak

A number of linguistically associated native groups (e.g. Taino) which occupied a broad area covering northeastern South America and much of the Caribbean. A southern origin is probable for this skilled pottery-making agricultural group, but a late Mesoamerican influence may be inferred from the ...

Arausio

See Orange.

Arausio

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Aramagosa

See Newmìa Cane.

Aramagosa

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Arad

Located in the Negev desert of southern Israel, Arad has revealed evidence of three separate phases of occupation. The first settlement was in the Chalcolithic period and the second in the Early Bronze I and II phases. At this stage, in the later 4th millennium BC, it was a town of c nine hectare...

Arab’ilu

See Erbil.

Arab’ilu

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Aquatic Civilization

This somewhat misleading name — more fully and correctly ‘the aquatic civilization of middle Africa’ — has been proposed to designate a widespread series of cultural adaptations to the high lake and river levels which prevailed over a wide area of what is now the southern Sahara and Sahel between...

Aquae Sulis

See Bath.

Aquae Sulis

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Apollo 11 Cave

Cave in the Huns Mountains of the extreme south of Namibia, not far from the confluence of the Orange and Great Fish Rivers, which has yielded a long dated sequence of industries extending from "Middle Stone Age’ to recent times. Of particular importance is the series of detached rock slabs beari...

Anza

[Anzabegovo]. A large open settlement of the Macedonian First Neolithic and Early VinCa periods situated on the first terrace of the Bregalnica River in the Ovce Polje basin of eastern Yugoslav Macedonia. Intensive excavations by Korosec, Garasanin and Gimbutas have revealed a four-phase occupati...

Anyathian

A Pleistocene industry of pebble tools and flakes made of silicified tuff and fossil wood, found in terrace deposits of the upper Irrawaddy River in Burma. The earliest assemblages may be of Middle Pleistocene date, and the industry may continue into the early Holocene. See also chopper/

Anyang

[An-yang]. A city in Henan province in North China, near the site of the last capital of the Shang or Yin dynasty. The site is sometimes referred to as Yinxu, the Waste of Yin, an ancient name for the abandoned capital. At least as early as the Song dynasty (960-1279) Anyang was known as a source...

Anuradhapura

Capital of Sri Lanka from the time of the introduction of Buddhism in the 3rd century bc until it was abandoned in the 8th century AD, as a result of incursions of Tamils from South India. Important Buddhist monuments here include palaces, monasteries and stupas, many of which have been conserved...

Antonine Wall

Short-lived frontier of the Roman Empire in Scotland, spanning the distance between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde. The wall was probably completed by 143 and abandoned before the end of the century. Erected by the governor Lollius Urbicus for the Emperor Antonius Pius, it was probably...

Antlers

Structures of bone-like material on the heads of deer, grown and shed annually. Providing a large enough fragment remains, antlers can frequently be identified to species. The number of points or tines on a pair of antlers generally increases with age, but as it is also dependent on diet and othe...

Antlers

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Antequera

Town in Malaga, southern Spain, renowned for its three megalithic tombs, Cueva de Menga, Cueva de Viera and Cueva de Romeral. They are partly cut into the hillside and are constructed in various different ways. The Cueva de Menga has an enormous chamber c5 metres wide andcl5 metres long, roofed b...

Antefix

Vertical ornament fixed to the edge of the roof-line of Greek and Roman buildings to provide a decorative cover to the ends of the rain tiles.

Annealing

See cold working.

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