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Sea Peoples

A collective term for various peoples who were on the move in the Aegean, Anatolia, and Levant in the 13th and 12th centuries BC. They were responsible for widespread destruction of settlements in these areas, particularly Ugarit and Alalakh and, more remotely, with the fall of Mycenaean Greece a...

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Sea Peoples

Kaminaljuyú

A large and important Maya site near Guatemala City that originally contained over 200 mounds, strongly influenced by Teotihuacán during the Early Classic. As the greatest of the early centers in the highland Maya zone, Kaminaljuyú has a history of occupation dating back to c 1800 BC, but it reac...

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Kaminaljuyú

Ellora

A site in central India with a series of magnificent rock-cut Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu temples, mainly of the Gupta Period c 320-540 AD. Many of them have fine sculptures. The most remarkable of the monuments is the monolithic Kailasa Temple, cut from a single outcropping of rock. It is extensiv...

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Ellora

Mshatta

Among the most famous pre-Islamic secular palaces, located in Jordan. Although only the main building was finished, it consisted of a square enclosure with a single gate in the south side. The interior was divided into three parallel strips running from north to south. There was a triple arch lea...

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Mshatta

Prismatic Blade

A flake struck from a polyhedral core, at least twice as long as it is wide, with steep, parallel sides, and trapezoidal (prismatic) in cross-section.

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Prismatic Blade

Geomorphology

A branch of geology (or geography) concerned with the form and development of the landscapes. It includes specializations such as sedimentology. Cultural remains are part of landscapes of the past.

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Geomorphology

Luristan

A region of the central Zagros mountains on the border of west-central Iran, where a distinctive bronze-working industry flourished 2600-600 BC. It is characterized by horse trappings, utensils, weapons, jewelry, belt buckles, and ritual and votive objects of bronze - which became most distinctiv...

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Luristan

Hippodamian Planning

A rectangular town layout used by Hippodamos of Miletus in the 5th century BC. Miletus, in western Turkey, existed to Roman imperial times, and Piraeus in Greece is another example.

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Hippodamian Planning

Chippable

Of a stone, capable of being worked to produce a tool or other such artifact. Chipped-stone artifacts are the class of lithic artifacts produced by fracturing flakes from a core.

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Chippable

Isolated Pit Approach

An excavation strategy that involves digging many small test pits over a large area in locations defined by random sampling.

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Isolated Pit Approach

E Group

An arrangement of buildings designed to mark the position of the rising sun during important solar events such as equinoxes and solstices in Mesoamerica

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E Group

Kernonen

A burial mound of the Armorican Early Bronze Age Tumulus Culture c 2000-2500 BC in Finistère, France. The circular stone cairn covered a rectangular dry-stone chamber. Grave goods include fine flaked flint arrowheads, amber beads, bronze axes and daggers, and wooden hilts decorated with gold nails.

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Kernonen