Breton Arrowhead

Banawali

A site in northern Indiana with occupation between 2500-1500 BC. The earliest settlement had pottery similar to Early Harappan. A second phase was urban with residential blocks on regular streets and Mature Harappan-type pottery. The third phase had pottery comparable to Late Harappan wares (Bara...

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Banawali

Lepsius, Karl Richard

German Egyptologist who led the Prussian expedition and survey of Egyptian monuments in 1842-1845. He also worked in Sudan and Palestine, sending some 15,000 antiquities and plaster casts back to Prussia. He published the results of the expedition in a 12-volume work, "Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und...

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Lepsius, Karl Richard

Unfluted

A term referring to projectile or tool which did not have a channel flake removed to form a flute.

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Unfluted

Axhead

The cutting or chopping part of an axe.

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Axhead

Descriptive Type

A type based on the physical or external properties of an artifact

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Descriptive Type

Sherd

Any pottery fragment - piece of broken pot or other earthenware item - that has archaeological significance. They are an invaluable part of the archaeological record because they are well-preserved. The analysis of ceramic changes recorded in potsherds has become one of the primary techniques use...

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Sherd

Afanasievo Culture

A Neolithic culture of the Yenisei valley of southern Siberia. The people, who were stock breeders and hunters, probably moved into the area in the late 3rd millennium BC. Excavations uncovered burials under kurgans (low mounds), surrounded by circular stone walls. There was stamped dentate potte...

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Afanasievo Culture

Microcrystal

The individual crystals of certain rocks which can be seen only through a microscope.

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Microcrystal

Athabascan

Native Americans who speak languages of the Athabascan or Dene language family. The Northern variety is in Alaska and the Yukon; the southern variety, including the Apache and Navajo, are in the U.S. Southwest. The groups diverged around 500 AD.

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Athabascan

Fire Hardening

The exposure of a wooden implement to fire in order to dry out the wood but not char it. The tool becomes harder and more useful.

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Fire Hardening

Cape Krusenstern

The site of a national monument on the coast of the Chukchi Sea with a horizontal stratigraphy covering the whole of north Alaskan prehistory. Located on 114 ridges along ancient beach lines, the monument's remarkable archaeological sites illustrate the cultural evolution of the Arctic people, da...

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Cape Krusenstern

Ice Age

A period of intense cold and the expansion of glaciers, resulting in a lower sea level. Such periods of large-scale glaciation may last several million years and drastically reshape surface features of entire continents. In the past, there were many ice ages; the earliest known took place during ...

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Ice Age