Archaeologs - Archaeologs

Monotonic

Having the property of either never increasing or never decreasing in one dimension as another dimension increases.

Monotonic

Rock

An aggregate of one or more minerals that can be defined by both physical properties and mineral content. The three forms are igneous, rock that has cooled from a molten state; sedimentary, rock that has formed through the accretion of sediments; and metamorphic, rock formed from preexisting rock...

Rock

Oxygen Isotope Analysis

Isotope analysis looking at the O18/O16 ratio in materials. The method can be used to classify glass types and to analyze mollusk shells in order to try and reconstruct their original environment and thus the source. It is also used to interpret deep sea cores. The basis for this technique is the...

Oxygen Isotope Analysis

Oblique Photograph

In aerial photography, taken from an angle (neither perpendicular nor parallel) so as to reveal elevation and contours.

Oblique Photograph

Homo Erectus

Upright man, an extinct form of Homo sapiens who evolved one million years ago, just before Neanderthal Man. This species had a larger brain and was bigger than Homo habilis, with a muscular stocky body and heavy face with thick brow bones. It is thought that Homo erectus made Acheulian stone art...

Homo Erectus

Colonial Williamsburg

A restoration of a large section of the early colonial area, which was first settled in 1633 as Middle Plantation. The restoration was begun in 1926 and the more than 3,000 acres of land have nearly 150 major buildings restored or reconstructed. The exhibition buildings, which include the Capitol...

Colonial Williamsburg

Kandanda

A site on the upper Zambezi River in Zambia, with a prepared-core industry that included rare bifacial hand axes which continued to a remarkably late date. It was replaced by a microlithic industry probably around 1000 BC.

Kandanda

Qingliangang

A Neolithic culture and site of the 5th millennium BC in Huaian Xian, northern Jiangsu province, China. It succeeded Hemudu and merged with Dawenkou. It had unpainted openwork ceramics with pedestals.

Qingliangang

Compression

The stress of a crushing force applied to a material

Compression

Kon-Tiki

A replica of a balsa raft constructed by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 to test the hypothesis that South American Indians could have drifted into Polynesia. This was the type of raft used in the 16th century AD along the coasts of Ecuador and northern Peru. He sailed the raft from South America to the T...

Kon-Tiki

Kausambi

A site in the Ganges Valley of northern India which was a great urban center in the early historical period. Its earliest wall, of mudbrick faced with baked brick 12 m high, was built about 500 BC. Within it is a Buddhist monastery the fifth century BC where, according to an inscription, the Budd...

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Kausambi

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Phial

A small cylindrical glass bottle, typically for medical samples or medicines

Phial