Archaeologs - Archaeologs

Archaeomagnetism

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

Arauquinoid

One of the ceramic series developed by Irving Rouse and José Cruxent to facilitate cultural comparison in the Venezuela/Antilles area. Characterized by soft-textured, grey-coloured vessels tempered with spicules of freshwater sponge, the series flourished in the Orinoco basin from c500 to cl500 a...

EnglishArtifacts, Ancient Pottery

Arauquinoid

archaeologsArtifacts, Ancient Pottery

Aramagosa

See Newmìa Cane.

Aramagosa

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

Aqueduct

Any channel constructed for the supply of water, but most commonly applied to the massively engineered arched bridges built by the Romans both to carry water supplies over valleys and ravines, and also to maintain correct height and fall across open spaces. The most famous examples are the Pont d...

EnglishArchitectural

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

‘Aqrab

Tell site in the area of the Diyala River in Iraq east of Baghdad, excav ated by the Oriental Institute of Chicago University in the 1930s. The mound is now in empty desert, but it was clearly a flourishing city in the 3rd millennium bc. Excavations revealed a temple with building phases spanning...

EnglishPlace Names

‘Aqrab

archaeologsPlace Names

Aq Kupruk

Rock shelter (Aq Kupruk II) and an open site (Aq Kupruk III) on a terrace of the Balkh River. This is one of the richest Palaeolithic sites in Afghanistan, but not the earliest; Lower Palaeolithic material is reported from Dasht-i Nawar and possible Middle Palaeolithic deposits occur at Dara-i Ku...

EnglishPlace Names

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...

Apennine Bronze Age

The main Bronze Age culture of the Italian peninsula, lasting from c2000 to c800 BC. It is marked by its distinctive pottery, dark and highly burnished, and decorated with incised and punctuated bands. The handles are elaborate and include tongue, homed and crestéd types. It is often claimed that...

archaeologsCultures, Periods

EnglishCultures, Periods

Apennine Bronze Age

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/