Archaeologs - Archaeologs

Buda Industry

A Lower Palaeolithic industry of Hungary characterized by the production of chopping tools on pebbles and flake tools.

Buda Industry

Cro-Magnon

A population of anatomically modern Homo sapiens dating from the Upper Paleolithic Period (c 35,000-10,000 years ago), first found in 1868 in a shallow cave at Cro-Magnon in the Dordogne region of southern France. French geologist Louis Lartet uncovered five archaeological layers and the race of ...

Cro-Magnon

Reclamation

Any of various processes by which artifacts move from an archaeological context to an active status, i.e. are reclaimed as when a later society makes use of objects deposited earlier. It is the transition of cultural materials from the archaeological record back into the systemic context such as ...

Reclamation

Antimonial Bronze

A bronze containing antimony in combination, as a third constituent. It may have been added to the original copper ore in the alloy since it improves the hardening qualities. It is used this way and in the names of many minerals, such as antimonial arsenic, copper, and nickel.

Antimonial Bronze

Jewelry

Decorative objects made mainly for the adornment of the body. The art of jewelry-making originated in prehistoric times when primitive people used objects from the animal world - such as horn, shell, and feathers - to adorn themselves. Cave paintings and carvings show figures decorated with brace...

Jewelry

Florisbad

A spring deposit in the Orange Free State, South Africa, which preserved a human cranium of Homo sapiens sapiens. Its brow ridges, while pronounced, are markedly less prominent than those of the (presumably earlier) skull from Broken Hill in Zambia. The Florisbad specimen is dated to c 50,000 bc ...

Florisbad

Broederstroom

An Early Iron Age village site in Pretoria, South Africa from the mid-1st millennium AD. Its remains, including 13 circular houses, gives a fairly complete picture of life at the time. There was iron-smelting and herding of cattle, sheep, and goats. Broederstroom pottery suggests connections with...

Broederstroom

China

A vitrified / glassy and nonporous ceramic fired to a temperature of 1100-1200 Centigrade.

China

Arthur

The legendary British king who is described in medieval romances as the leader of a knightly fellowship called the Round Table. It is said that he rallied the British against the Anglo-Saxon invaders and that behind the legend there may be a sub-Roman warleader who filled such a role. Though his ...

Arthur

Lake Condah

Complex of stone structures in southwest Victoria, Australia, including fish traps and huts, postdating the Late Pleistocene c 4000 bp. Fish-trap systems characterize the Holocene and may have been part of ceremonial gatherings.

Lake Condah

Leland, John

An early notable antiquarian who, in his official capacity as King's Antiquary to King Henry VIII, toured England and Wales describing places of antiquarian interest, including prominent prehistoric sites. He intended to write a book ("History and Antiquities of the Nation") that would provide a ...

Leland, John

Sugar Cane

Grasses which contain a sweet syrup in their coarse fibrous stems. It is believed that they were first used by man in the New Guinea region in an early phase of Austronesian settlement c 3000 BC.

Sugar Cane