Paleoserology

The study of ancient man by blood groups; a branch of serology dealing with human serums and their properties. Results have been obtained from mummified and frozen bodies, with research concentrating on family groupings among mummified remains, though diseases may also be studied (palaeopathology...

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Paleoserology

Genotype

Genetic composition of a cell or individual, as distinct from its phenotype.

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Genotype

Status Differentiation

Inequality in human society in which individuals or certain groups have access to more resources, power, etc. than others.

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Status Differentiation

Norsuntepe

Prehistoric site on the upper Euphrates River in eastern Anatolia with a sequence of occupation from the Chalcolithic to Iron Age times. Early levels show connections with Halaf and 'Ubaid. Architecture became more elaborate and there is a probably copper foundry and copper workshops through the ...

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Norsuntepe

Tunnel Handle

In pottery, a handle flush with the surface of the pot. It is usually produced by piercing two adjacent holes in the wall of the vessel before firing and adding a pouch of clay inside to prevent the contents from escaping. The feature was widely used around the western Mediterranean c 3500-2000 BC.

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Tunnel Handle

Diamicton

A sediment or soil texture larger than sand-sized clasts. It is a matrix of sand, silt, and clay and are glacial debris-flow and colluvial deposits.

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Diamicton

Probability Sample

A sample selected on the basis of probability theory.

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Probability Sample

False Relief

A form of excised or impressed decoration on pottery in which two rows of inward pointing triangles are cut from, or impressed on, the pot surface. The zigzag running between them then appears to be in relief, though it is actually no higher than the surface of the pot.

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False Relief

Compass Map

A map of a region or site created by using a compass to control geographical direction and, usually, pacing or tape measures to control distances, but not elevation.

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Compass Map

Hajdúsámson

A level of Hungarian and Rumanian metalwork hoards (Apa-Hajdusamson horizon) dated to the later Early Bronze Age, c 1700-1500 BC. The bronze solid-hilted swords, disk-butted and shaft-tube axes and daggers are often richly decorated, but the gold-working is even finer. The horizon includes many s...

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Hajdúsámson

Barbotine

A primitive technique of decorating pottery by adding thick slip to the surface of a pot before firing. The term also refers to the creamy mixture of kaolin clay itself, for pottery ornamented with barbotine, and the technique of applying incrustation of this mixture to a ceramic surface for deco...

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Barbotine

Kabal

A simple turntable used in pottery manufacture in the New World.

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Kabal

Würm

The fourth and final Pleistocene glaciation in the European Alps, c 110,000/70,000-10,000 years ago, ending with the onset of the postglacial Holocene. The Würm glacial stage followed the Riss-Würm interglacial and is correlated with the Weichsel glacial stage of northern Europe and the Wisconsin...

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