Soda-Lime Glass

Glass produced using soda derived by burning seaweed and kelp.

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Soda-Lime Glass

Coconut

The nut or seed of the coco-palm, whose white flesh may be eaten. It was probably cultivated in Southeast Asia by 3000 BC and then spread by Austronesians through the Pacific and eventually to central America, India, and East Africa. Charred fruits occur in western Melanesian sites back to c 3000...

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Coconut

Sidi Abd Er Rahman

Palaeolithic site close to Casablanca on the Moroccan coast with Acheulian levels. There are abundant stone artifacts and a mandible attributed to Homo erectus. These are earlier than the Amirian dune (perhaps 0.5 million years old or 'Mindel') and later than the Saletian dune of about 1 million ...

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Sidi Abd Er Rahman

Sedimentation

The process of deposition of a solid material from a state of suspension or solution in a fluid (air, water, ice). It also includes deposits from glacial ice and those materials collected by gravity, or accumulations of rock debris at the base of cliffs. Depending on the conditions of sedimentati...

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Sedimentation

Unsystematic Survey

A simple walking survey across each part of the area, scanning the strip of ground along one's path, collecting or examining artifacts on the surface, and recording their location together with that of any surface features.

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Unsystematic Survey

Edge Angle

The angle of the cutting edge of a stone (or other material) tool. The edge angle often indicates the purpose for which the tool was used. Edge-wear analysis is the microscopic examination of the working edges of tools.

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Edge Angle

Logical Positivism

The philosophical position that there is an objectively knowable past that can be discovered through rigid adherence to scientific methods.

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Logical Positivism

Calcareous Concretion

A rounded mass of mineral matter occurring in sandstone, clay, etc. - often in concentric layers around a nucleus.

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Calcareous Concretion

Lindenschmit, Ludwig

Brothers who attributed burials they excavated at Selzen near Mainz to Great Invasions and the Franks. They used comparative methods and made proper use of terminus post quem provided by dates on coins.

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Lindenschmit, Ludwig

Faunal Association

A relative age determination technique based on archaeological associations with remains of extinct species.

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Faunal Association

Microstructure

The arrangement of phases of a material; in a ceramic, the internal arrangement of crystalline and amorphous materials, pores, and boundaries between them

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Microstructure

Enki

The third, with An and Enlil, of the great Sumerian gods, associated with water and purification.

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Enki

Skeleton

The bony supporting element in the bodies of vertebrate animals. It consists of the axial skeleton - skull (including teeth) and vertebral column - and the appendicular skeleton - ribs, girdles and limbs. In man, the proportions of various bones are fairly generalized, but in other animals bones ...

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