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...

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Danekirke

Dammayan Temple

One of the largest Buddhist brick monuments in Pagan, northern Burma, built under king Narapatisithu in the late 12th century. It is similar in style to the Ananda Temple.

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Dammayan Temple

Damb Sadaat

A prehistoric site in the Quetta valley of West Pakistan which was occupied during the 3rd millennium bc. The population of this period lived in well-built mud-brick houses consisting of several small rooms, used tools of copper, and had wheel-turned pottery painted in black designs on a buff or ...

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Damb Sadaat

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.

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Damb Buthi

Damascus

Modem capital of Syria. A rich oasis city, Damascus was occupied by the 3rd millennium bc, but the settlements of the prehistoric, biblical and Roman periods underlie the modem and medieval city and are therefore not readily available for excavation. Egyptian texts and references in the Bible att...

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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...

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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...

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Dalriada

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...

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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.

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Dai Viet

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...

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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...

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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

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Dacia

A Roman frontier province held from cl06-270 ad, comprising an area to the north of the Danube and roughly equivalent to modem Rumania. The Dacians had constituted a threat to Rome for some time, and their leader Decebalus had to be recognized as a client king by Domitian. A more determined and s...

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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.

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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...

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Dabar Kot

A large site in the Loralai Valley in northern Baluchistan, Pakistan, probably occupied from the 5th millenniuum BC. In later levels, material of Harappan type was associated with local artefacts such as figurines of Zhob type. The latest occupation of the site is represented by a large Buddhist ...

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Konnakis Painter

Greek vase painter from Apulia, ca. 375-350 BCE.

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Konnakis Painter

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.

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