Lapita Pottery

Very extensive horizon or a long enduring tradition and as a major intrusive culture within western island Melanesia from Southeast Asia.) elaborate decorated pottery, especially characteristic of the early assemblages in each region. Historically, the pottery is best described as comprising a ce...

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Lapita Pottery

Sunium

Promontory at southern tip of Attica with Temple to Poseidon c 440 BC and a harbor fortified during Peloponnesian Wars in late 4th century BC. State-owned silver mines were near Sunium.

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Sunium

Distyle

Of a Classical building, having two columns on the facade.

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Distyle

Perforation

A form of self-sacrifice widely practiced by the cultures of Mesoamerica. Historical sources, such as the Codex Mendoza, indicate that the Aztec frequently engaged in penitential exercises by causing self-inflicted wounds with maguey thorns. Artifactual evidence in the form of plant thorns, sting...

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Perforation

Phase I Survey

An exploratory survey of an area to determine location and boundaries of any historic or archaeological site potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.

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Phase I Survey

Paleo-American

The earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch, c 8500-5000 BC

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Paleo-American

Moated Site

A class of sites in places like Thailand, Cambodia, England, Ireland, and Flanders. In the first two, they are known from protohistoric and early historic sites and are settlements encircled by one or more irregular moats. In England, Ireland, and Flanders, they were built during the late medieva...

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Moated Site

Contour Fort

A fort on a hill in which the defensive bank and ditch follows the contour so as to enclose the entire hilltop.

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Contour Fort

Ortoire

A cultural phase in Trinidad dated to c 800 BC, recognized by crude chipped stone tools, netsinkers, and grinding stones.

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Ortoire

Behavioral Archaeology

The study of the relationship between material culture and human behavior and the impact of humans and nature on material culture by interpreting its original use.

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Behavioral Archaeology

Arbitrary Excavation

Excavation by predetermined levels of a given thickness; used on sites or areas of sites without visible layering of the soil.

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Arbitrary Excavation

Kush

An Egyptian term for Upper Nubia and the independent states of the region during periods of Egyptian weakness. It is the name applied to the area which, during and after the pharaonic period, was subject to Egyptian cultural and /or political influence. Kush's main period of independence began c ...

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Kush

Scabbard

Leather, wooden, metal, or woven case in which a sword or rapier is kept when not in use. Most scabbards are provided with fittings so that they can be hung from a belt or sash; those for use by mounted cavalry will have a chape on the distal end that allows the scabbard to be held in place by th...

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