Archaeologs - Archaeologs

Direct Age Determination

The determination of the age of archaeological data by analysis of an artifact, ecofact, or feature.

Direct Age Determination

Tula Adze

In Australia, a hafted chisel made to work hardwoods. It is a thick, round stone flake, usually about 5 cm long, with a steeply trimmed working edge opposite an obtuse-angled striking platform. They usually have a prominent bulb and convex bulbar surface. Ethnographic examples are set in gum on t...

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Tula Adze

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Quartz

A hard mineral of many varieties that consists primarily of silica or silicon dioxide. Quartz has been important from the earliest times; crystals of it were known to the ancient Greeks as 'krystallos'. It is typically colorless to white, with some minor impurities which make it into many differe...

Quartz

Molecular Clock

A method of tracing evolutionary lines based on the changes in the protein structure and DNA of living organisms that take place over long periods of time. By establishing the degree of difference between the proteins of two species, it is possible to calculate how long ago they shared a common a...

Molecular Clock

Late Bronze Age

A period of the Levant, following the expulsion of the Hyksos, during which the Egyptians invaded and Canaanite cities were under Egyptian control. It is divided into LBA I, c 1550-1400 BC; LBA Iia, c 1400-1300 BC; and LBA Iib, c 1300-1200 BC.

Late Bronze Age

Diversity

A measure of variety in a data set.

Diversity

Vesicular Ware

Pottery whose fabric embodies crushed calcite (either shell or mineral grit) as a tempering agent, used especially for kitchen wares such as storage jars, cooking pots, and bowls.

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Vesicular Ware

Sugu

Site in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, with many Yayoi settlements, cemeteries, and workshops. The Sugu site proper is a cemetery containing over 200 jar burials. The most famous burial was that of a probable political leader inside two jars, set mouth to mouth, along with at least 33 imported Chines...

Sugu

Quyn-Van

Shell midden in northern Vietnam which has produced a flaked stone industry together with pottery, grindstones, and contracted burials dated c 3000 BC. It could be a late and specialized coastal variant of the Hoabinhian.

Quyn-Van

Highland Zone

A settlement and geographic area corresponding to northern England, the Pennines, Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.

Highland Zone

Ahmose I

The founder of the 18th Dynasty and the prince of Thebes who drove the Hyksos from Egypt, invaded Palestine, and established the New Kingdom. He was the son of the Theban 17th Dynasty ruler Seqenenra Taa II and Queen Ahhotep, and came to the throne of a reunited Egypt after he and his predecessor...

Ahmose I

Systemic Context

Behavioral system wherein artifacts are part of an ongoing system of manufacture, use, reuse, and discard

Systemic Context