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Cast

A molded object

Cast

Baden

A third millennium Copper Age culture over much of central Europe (the Carpathian basin: northern Yugoslavia, all of Hungary, most of Czechoslovakia, southern Poland, and parts of Austria and Germany). Ancient Baden was occupied by Celts and then by Germanic peoples and was conquered by Rome in t...

Baden

Manmade Layer

A deposit that has been deliberately positioned and constructed by human action and thus may defy the laws of natural or geological stratigraphy.

Manmade Layer

Schist

A coarse-grained metamorphic rock which consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates

Schist

Salinas La Blanca

Early Formative village site on the left bank of the Narajo River near Ocos, Guatemala. The principal features of the site are two low house-mounds constructed of clay and household debris and dating to 1000-850 BC. A typical household cluster consisted of the house and outdoor hearth, a number o...

Salinas La Blanca

Shaduf

An irrigation tool invented in ancient times, consisting of a long wooden pole with a receptacle at one end and a counterbalancing weight at the other, for transferring water out of a river or canal. This hand-operated device is still used in India, Egypt, and some other countries to irrigate lan...

Shaduf

Tulang Mawas

Literally, "monkey bone" a long-shafted socketed iron ax of Iron Age peninsular Malaysia c 300 BC.

Tulang Mawas

Nemset Vessel

A type of spouted vase or lustration vessel usually used in ritual contexts such as the opening of the mouth ceremony, which was a ritual intended to instill life into funerary statues or mummies.

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Nemset Vessel

Spatulate

A flared celt, usually 8-10 inches long with a smooth, slender handle, used mainly like a chisel or knife

Spatulate

Reclamation Process

The transition of cultural materials from the archaeological record back into the systemic context; archaeological excavation itself is reclamation

Reclamation Process

Gabillou

An Upper Palaeolithic cave site in Dordogne, southwest France, with Magdalenian levels, including numerous engravings. The engravings are amongst the finest and most delicate ever found from the Palaeolithic period.

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Gabillou

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Leister

A two-pronged forklike fish spear made of two bone or antler heads with barbs pointing inwards and backwards. They are recorded from Mesolithic and lakeside Neolithic settlements, as well as present-day use by the Eskimo, mainly for salmon.

Leister