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Karasuk

A Bronze Age culture that succeeded the Andronovo culture in southern Siberia in the late 2nd millennium BC. The three main, basically successive, yet often overlapping cultures were the Afanasyevskaya, Andronovo, and Karasuk. The Karasuk culture developed when a gradual change was made from sett...

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Karasuk

Sheep

A ruminant (cud-chewing) mammal of the genus Ovis, usually stockier than its relative the goat. Sheep were first domesticated from wild species of sheep by at least 5000 BC, and their remains have been found at numerous sites of early human habitation in the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia....

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Sheep

Archaeological Record

The surviving physical remains of past human activities, which are sought, recovered, analyzed, preserved, and described by archaeologists in an attempt to reconstruct the past.

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Archaeological Record

Campanulate Bowl

A bowl or other kind of vessel, whether of pottery, metal, or some other material, shaped to the form of an inverted bell.

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Campanulate Bowl

Paffrath Ware

Hard-fired ware with a black finish, made from the 10th-11th centuries until the 13th century at Paffrath, near Cologne, Germany. The best-known products of this center are the so-called handled ladles - small cooking pots or bowls with a curved handle.

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Paffrath Ware

Eyasi

A late Middle Pleistocene site in northern Tanzania with faunal remains including archaic Homo sapiens and extinct mammal species as well as artifacts.

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Eyasi

Ruse

A city of northern Bulgaria, located on a major crossing-point of the Danube, which began as a fortified Roman harbor called Sexantaprista (Sixty Ships) in the 1st century BC. It was destroyed by barbarians in the 7th century. The Ottomans built a new town Roustchouk which subsequently bore the n...

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Ruse

Conflict Theory

Any theory that traces the origin of the state to warfare or intragroup conflicts.

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Conflict Theory

Historical Particularism

A school of anthropological thought associated with the work of Franz Boas and his students (including Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and A.L. Kroeber), whose studies of culture emphasized the integrated way of life distinctive of a people. It is a detailed descriptive approach to anthropology des...

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Historical Particularism

Fenbitou

A site and Neolithic culture on the southwestern coast of Taiwan, dating to 2400-1800 BC.

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Fenbitou

Xibeigang

Site in Hebei Province, China, of the Royal Cemetery of the Late Shang, with seven shaft tombs with wooden-chamber burials and human sacrifices. There are also over 2000 small pit-graves with human sacrifices. The hierarchy of burials at this and other cemeteries in the area reflected the social ...

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Xibeigang

Bouar

A city of the Central African Republic where, about 2500 years ago, farming people set up numerous series of megalithic monuments consisting of standing stones - which weighed several tons - associated with tumuli. The cooperation necessary to make and position these monuments suggests that they ...

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Bouar