Archaeologs - Archaeologs

Paddy

Any field for the intensive cultivation of rice, flooded naturally or by irrigation; wet land on which rice is grown.

Paddy

Mortuary Priest

In ancient Egypt, a person or persons appointed to bring daily funerary offerings to a tomb; known as the 'servant of the ka'. An endowment of lands and estates during the life or after the death of the deceased provided the offerings, which then reverted to the priests.

Mortuary Priest

Cost-Surface Analysis

The use of GIS software and digital landscape information such as slope and distance, fed into computer along with the figure of one hour for a 5-km walk on the surface that is used to do calculations, using built-in data on the energy cost of traversing different kinds of terrain.

Cost-Surface Analysis

Samoa

A major island group in the south-central Pacific Ocean about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand. American Samoa, a dependency of the United States, consists of the six islands. Western Samoa, an independent nation, consists of the nine islands. The islands were settled by Lapita col...

Samoa

Kuk

A site complex in the New Guinea Highlands, near Mount Hangen, which has produced several systems of swamp-drainage ditches, going back to about 7000 BC. A drain and evidence of clearance took place then and a sequence of field systems were made from about 6000 bp to the present. The findings hav...

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Kuk

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Ruanga

An Iron Age settlement in northern Mashonaland, Zimbabwe, where a stone building appears to have been occupied by people related to those of Great Zimbabwe.

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Ruanga

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Speos

In Egyptology, a term for a small rock-cut temple or tomb; the hypogea or subterranean Egyptian temples. Hemispeos were temples built partly above and partly under the ground. A speos was often of some architectural importance.

Speos

Spud

A tool, possibly for cleaning mud from parts of a plow.

Spud

Humbolt Series Point

Bifacially worked chipped stone points of lanceolate outline manufactured by Archaic Stage communities on the Great Plains and western interior of North America in the period c.3000 BC to AD 700. There are numerous variations in style and in size, but most have a hollow base and none have side no...

Humbolt Series Point

Flag Fen

A Late Bronze Age settlement site on the Cambridgeshire fens (island) of England. It was reached by a timber track from the mainland at Fengate and was occupied c 1000-700 BC. Artifacts include flint tools, bronze dagger, shale bracelet, wooden items, and pottery.

Flag Fen

Reisner, George Andrew

American Egyptologist who set new standards in Egyptian archaeology with his meticulous excavation methods, which were then comparable only with those of the British archaeologist Flinders Petrie. He carried out long-term excavations at Giza, Nag ed-Der, Kerma, and Deir el-Ballas. He directed a c...

Reisner, George Andrew

Paleomagnetism

The magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified. The permanent magnetism in rocks, resulting from the orientation of the Earth's magnetic field at the time of rock formation in a past geological age. It is the source of information for...

Paleomagnetism