A mining area and village in Zaire on the Kasai River where Early Iron Age pottery vessels of Urewe type were found in an undated context and without further archaeological associations. The discovery has been used as evidence for an early spread of Early Iron Age industries along the southern fr...
The present-day floor of the Chukchi and Bering Seas, which emerged as dry land during Late Pleistocene glacial advances. It is the only route for faunal exchange between Eurasia and North America as it united Siberia and Alaska. It seems to have been breached only in the past 2.5 million years, ...
An organic or inorganic coloring material.
An inventory of archaeological data in which an artifact is labeled with a reference number and described in detail. The catalog number is the unique number assigned to each individual item - or group of items - in an archaeological collection.
Mountain range of southwest Iran from the Sirvan River (Diyala) to Shiraz, where a number of archaeological sites are located: Jarmo, Ali Kosh, Tepe Ganj Dareh, Tepe Guran, Tepe Sarab, and Zawi Chemi Shangi-Dar.
A six-sided pebble or piece of stone which has been totally or partly reshaped by chipping of the surface in a number of directions; it resembles a ball. It was first created in pre-Acheulian and Acheulian and Middle Paleolithic times and used as percussion tools, throwing weapons, and nuclei for...
An Interstadial of the Weichselian cold stage, dated by radiocarbon to c 58,000 bp, but it may be earlier. The beginning of the Weichsel has been placed at about 70,000 years ago.
A ritually and historically important calendar used throughout Mesoamerica in which the solar calendar of 365 days ran in parallel with a sacred 260-day ritual calendar of named days. The calendar round is a 52-year cycle, since both calendars begin on the same day only once every 52 years. Coeff...
A Neolithic site in the Vale of Kashmir with phases of occupation dating from c 3050 BC to the 3rd-4th centuries AD. Deep pit dwellings are associated with ground stone axes, bone tools, and coarse gray burnished pottery. These characteristics plus the absence of blades, use of pierced rectangula...
River valley in Cape Province, South Africa, with more than 14,000 Stone Age sites. The ceramic sequence dates to the millennium prior to European settlers. There is information about the Stone Age Smithfield hunter-gatherers from this area.
Type site and culture of the late 4th to early 3rd millennium in eastern Kansu, eastern Tsinghai, and northern Szechwan, China. Majiayao is regarded as the earliest stage of the western or Gansu branch of the Yanshao Neolithic. Majiayao pottery designs, perhaps the finest known from the Chinese N...
A stone industry of flakes in Luzon, Philippines, thought to be early Holocene.
The excavation or opening up of large areas so that subsurface features and architecture are broadly exposed.
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