Marpole Culture

An archaeological complex in Canada, dating c 500 BC-1500 AD; the type site is at the mouth of the Fraser River in British Columbia. Its distinctive traits include flaked-stone points, microblades, ground-slate points and fish knives, and disc beads of shell and shale. Antler was used for barbed ...

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Marpole Culture

Emblematic Style

Stylistic variation that has a distinct symbolic referent, such as a logo.

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Emblematic Style

Arystichos

A Greek or Roman vessel for drawing water, especially from amphorae.

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Arystichos

Soroki

A complex of short-lived settlement sites of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic, located in the middle Dniester valley in Moldova. The Mesolithic sites, with radiocarbon dates of c 5600-5400 BC, have provided data on the late Mesolithic / early Neolithic Bug-Dniester culture. The earliest oc...

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Soroki

Transfer-Print

A mass-production method of applying an image to a curved or uneven surface, most commonly used for printing on porcelain and other hard surfaced pottery

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Transfer-Print

Yuanmou

Early Palaeolithic site in Yunnan province, China, dated to 700,000 bp; Homo erectus dental remains were found.

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Yuanmou

Filimoshki

A Pleistocene site on the Zeya River in eastern Siberia with flaked quartzite cobbles recovered from alluvium and classified as Lower Palaeolithic tools.

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Filimoshki

Boian

A Neolithic culture (c 7000-3500 BC, some say Middle Neolithic c 4200-3700 BC) in lower Danube valley of southern Romania and characterized by terrace-floodplain settlements, consisting at first of mud huts and later of fortified promontory settlements of small tells. The Boian phase was marked b...

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Boian

Sothic Cycle

In ancient Egypt, the civil year was a quarter of a day too short in relation to the rising of Sothis (Sirius), the Dog star, so that the new year advanced by one day every four years; New Year's Day and the rising of Sothis coincided again only after approximately 1,460 years. Period elapsing be...

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Sothic Cycle

Petén

A geographical and cultural part of the Maya lowlands in Mesoamerica, including much of the southern Yucatán. The center of the Mayan Old Empire, Tikal, Uaxactún, and Altar de Sacrificios are in Petén.

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Petén

Hanging Bowl

Any thin bronze, shallow bowl found in Anglo-Saxon graves up until the 7th century, an important part of a Celtic metal-working tradition which has its origins in the Roman and pre-Roman Iron Age. They have three equally spaced suspension rings, fixed to the bowl by escutcheons usually decorated ...

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Hanging Bowl

Haplotype

A specific combination of alleles within a gene cluster.

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Haplotype

Skateholm

Mesolithic fishing sites in southern Sweden (Scania) with domestic areas and 80+ graves. The site is dated to 6000-5500 BP.

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