Cutting Blade

Radiocarbon Age

The most likely statistical age of an object dated by radiocarbon. This date comes from the laboratory and is expressed in radiocarbon years before present (calculated as the age before 1950 AD) with a plus or minus factor; e.g., 3618 ? 120.

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Radiocarbon Age

Lot Number

The number assigned to an archaeological collection that identifies an aspect of context within a collection; part of the catalog number.

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Lot Number

Casing Nail

A nail similar to a finishing nail but heavier and used for trim where strength and concealment are required

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Casing Nail

Shabaqo

Cushite king who conquered Egypt and founded its 25th (Ethiopian) Dynasty. He ruled Egypt from about 719/718-703 BC. He had old texts recopied and also revived the practice of pyramid burials. He was interred in a pyramid at Mount Barkal, between the Third and Fourth cataracts of the Nile.

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Shabaqo

Head-Smashed-In

A bison kill site in southern Alberta, Canada, with evidence of use from 3700 BC.

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Head-Smashed-In

Khafajah

A group of tells on the Diyala River in east-central Iraq with the best evidence for the threefold subdivision of the Mesopotamian Early Dynastic period (3rd millennium BC). The stratified ceramic sequence from Jemdet Nasr to the late Early Dynastic times, combined with the findings from Tell Asm...

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Khafajah

Taiwan

Island 100 miles (160 km) off the southeast coast of the China mainland. Taiwan had a native aboriginal population of Malayo-Polynesian ancestry and it occupies an important position in the prehistory of Southeast Asia. Evidence for pre-Neolithic settlement is from c 3500 BC, followed by a Neolit...

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Taiwan

Teshik Tash

Middle Palaeolithic cave in Tadjikistan in the west Himalayas, with several Mousterian levels, and the skeleton of a Neanderthal child. The site is dated c 44,000 BP.

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Teshik Tash

Aymara

A large South American tribal group occupying the Titicaca plateau (central Andes) in the Late Intermediate Period - and the language spoken by them. The Aymara language is still spoken some parts of Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. The Aymara kingdoms - Canchi Colla Lupaca Collagua Ubina Pacasa Car...

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Aymara

Osirid Pillar

A square pillar with one of its faces carved in the form of a colossal statue of the god Osiris or a dead king. The pillar, most likely in an open court or portico, was not a weight-bearing element. Most are mummiform.

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Osirid Pillar

Grayware

A usually undecorated ware of gray body.

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Grayware

Papuan Languages

A group of over 700 languages of New Guinea and adjacent parts of eastern Indonesia and Melanesia. Today these languages are spoken by about 2.9 million people, and the family is perhaps the most diverse in the world. The Papuan languages presumably descend from the languages of the first settler...

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Papuan Languages