To convert (waste) into reusable material
Marble from quarries on the island of Paros, Greece, which is white in color, close-grained, and peculiarly suitable for sculpture: it was widely used by the leading sculptors throughout the Mediterranean world.
British soldier who was one of the first people to visit and make a scientific record of the great Maya sites. Inspired by travelers' accounts of the ruins, he visited Guatemala and the neighboring republics, and by 1894 had made seven expeditions. He made photographs, casts, plans, and drawings ...
A lionheaded deity with cult centers at Musawwarat el-Sufra and Naqa in Sudan.
A term meaning 'all Greek', referring to regional sanctuaries which attracted dedications from within the Greek world.
An axhead of flint or other stone, commonly used for Neolithic types
Any specific interval of time in the archaeological record, such as the Upper Paleolithic period. This term is often confusingly used interchangeably with phase and stage. A period is a true time division of the history of a large region (such as the Valley of Mexico or southern China) and does n...
Site in western Molokai, Hawaii, with large midden deposits and stone structures from a fishing community, dated to 1750 AD.
Mesoamerican rain and fertility god, usually depicted wearing a fringed mouth-mask or a spectacle-shaped frame round his eyes, recognized this way in the art of the Aztec people of Teotihuacán. Under various names Tlaloc was worshipped by other of the Mexican tribes: Chac (Lowland Maya), Tajin (T...
Middle Palaeolithic cave in the Greater Caucasus of Georgia with two main cultural layers. Tools are scrapers and points and the newer assemblage has Levallois technique tools and blades.
A primary forming technique for producing pottery vessels, similar to pinching, whereby the body is pulled upward from the center of a ball of tempered clay with thumb and fingers.
The art of working metals. Various techniques include annealing, repoussé, cire perdue, cold-working, casting, forging, carburization, quenching, tempering, soldering, smelting, welding, and creation of alloys.
In pottery decoration, the roughening of the surface of a pot which may or may not have an applied slip. The roughening may be achieved using fingers, fingernails, twigs, etc., and though it may be pure decoration, in most cases it is probably a device to prevent a greasy pot slipping through the...
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