Würm

Gerzean

A late predynastic culture of Upper Egypt, successor of the Amratian, c 4000-3500 BC. It is named after the site of El Gerza or Gerzeh in the Fayum and is well represented at the cemetery of Naqada in Upper Egypt; another important site is Hierakonpolis. Flintwork included ripple-flaked knives an...

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Gerzean

Percussor

A hammerstone, bone, etc. used to strike a stone in a percussion technique.

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Percussor

Taula

Bronze Age ritual monument found in the Balearic Islands of Minorca and Majorca from the Talayot culture. A taula may be 4 meters in height, and consists of a horizontal block supported either by a monolithic pillar or a column made of several stones. Often surrounded by a U-shaped enclosure wall...

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Taula

Valac

Small hilltop settlement of the Late Vinca phase, c 3950 BC, near Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Serbia. The single occupation level has poor ceramics, but each house has a rich ritual assemblage with fired clay zoomorphic figurines known as 'centaurs'.

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Valac

Sheshonq

Libyan name held by five kings of the 22nd and 23rd Dynasties (945-715 BC, 818-715 BC, respectively) as their birth name or nomen. Sheshonq I (fl. 10th century BC), was the first king (reigned 945-924 BC) of the 22nd dynasty of Egypt.

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Sheshonq

Verwood Ware

Products of a medieval and later pottery industry based in the New Forest of southern England.

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Verwood Ware

Infusible Clay

Clay that is not fusible, not capable of being dissolved or melted.

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Infusible Clay

Header And Stretcher

In architecture, header is a brick or stone laid in a wall with its end towards the face of the wall; stretcher is a brick or stone laid with its length parallel to the face of a wall.

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Header And Stretcher

Port Of Trade

Any town or city whose specific function is to act as a meeting place for foreign traders. It serves as a center for transshipment and storage of goods; the site is characterized by facilities for storage. Ports of trade, such as Tyre and Sidon, may have been important models of early long-distan...

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Port Of Trade

Target Population

The entire group of items (sites, features, artifacts, etc.) that an archaeologist is interesting in analyzing.

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Target Population

Vinca

Large tell just outside Belgrade, Serbia, spanning c 5000-3500 BC. Its lowest level consisted of Starcevo material; the next of Middle and Late Neolithic are Vinca-Tordos and Vinca-Plocnik. The pottery is typically dark burnished with fluting, channeling, and simple incised decoration. It was a s...

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Vinca

Library

Collection of books used for reading or study, or the building or room in which such a collection is kept. The origin of libraries came in the 3rd millennium BC, when records on clay tablets were stored in a temple in the Babylonian town of Nippur. In the 7th century BC, the Assyrian king Ashurba...

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Library