Aniba

The site of a cemetery and settlement in Lower Nubia, founded as an Egyptian fortress in the Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC). It is near the gold-mining region of Nubia.

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Botany

The scientific study of the structure, growth, and identification of plants.

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Botany

Klasies River Mouth

A complex of caves and overhangs on the south coast of South Africa (Cape Province). It provides one of the most complete sequences available for the area, including sea-level changes of the Late Pleistocene - at least the last 60,000 years. A long development of the 'Middle Stone Age' shares som...

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Klasies River Mouth

Seal Matrix

The object used to make impressions in wax as seals.

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Seal Matrix

Xanthian Marbles

Sculptures found at Xanthus, principal city of ancient Lycia (Turkey), now in British Museum. The most remarkable ruins of the city are these huge rock-cut pillar tombs. British archaeologist Sir Charles Fellows sent reliefs and sections of the tombs to the British Museum in the 19th century. The...

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Xanthian Marbles

Gogoshiis Qabe

A rock shelter of southern Somaia with Middle and Later Stone Age sequences and early Holocene burials. These graves, associated with lesser kudu horn cores, represent the earliest evidence of intentional grave goods in East Africa.

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Gogoshiis Qabe

Geomagnetic Surveying

A method of remote sensing that uses deviations in the earth's gravitational field to locate archaeological deposits.

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Geomagnetic Surveying

Gumelnita

A Late Neolithic/Copper Age culture of eastern Romania, Bulgaria, and northern Greece (eastern Balkans) c 3800-3000/2500 BC. There were permanent villages of rectangular houses forming low tells, use of copper and gold, and a flourishing painted pottery. The pottery was often decorated with graph...

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Gumelnita

Lascaux

A Magdalenian cave in the Dordogne, southwest France, with a spectacular collection of Palaeolithic paintings and engravings. Once the cave was opened to visitors, the delicate atmospheric balance was disturbed and the paintings were attacked by fungus; it was closed to the public in 1963. A smal...

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Lascaux

Thesauros

A treasury much like a naiskos and located in a temenos as storage of the valuables of foreign states. There is an elaborate series of thesauroi in Delphi leading up the sacred way.

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Thesauros

Chisel

A long-bladed hand tool with a beveled cutting edge, struck with a hammer or mallet to cut or shape wood, stone, or metal.

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Chisel

Reflex Bow

A small but powerful bow made such that, until strung, the ends of the bow project forwards rather than backwards. The simple bow, made from a single piece of wood, was known to Neolithic hunters; it is depicted in cave paintings by 30,000 BC. The first improvement was the reflex bow, a bow that ...

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Reflex Bow

B Ware

A range of ceramic amphorae originating at a range of source areas in the east Mediterranean. They date from the 1st to the early 7th century AD, although in Britain they date mainly to the later part of their currency. Divided into four subgroups, Bi-Biv. Bi are characteristic of sub-Roman sites...

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