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Bone Measurement

The measurement of bones to compare size and shape between different individuals. The dimensions of skeletal structures can be taken using a variety of calipers and other measuring equipment. Multivariate analysis is one method of comparison which helps to identify and distinguish bones by specie...

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Bone Measurement

Transverse Striae

Linear mark, ridge, or groove situated or extending across something

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Transverse Striae

Reliability

The extent to which a measure gives the same result over different situations.

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Reliability

Terminus Ante Quem

Latin phrase meaning 'the end before which' - the date before which a stratum, feature, or artifact must have been deposited. The term is used either to define a relative chronological date for artifacts or provide fixed points in a site's stratigraphy. If a deposit can be securely dated by mater...

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Terminus Ante Quem

Blue Willow Pottery

Blue Willow, first made in England over 200 years ago, is said to be America's favorite patterned ware. Willow Ware is available in a wide range of patterns makers-most identifiable by mark styles and periods-running from 1780 to wares produced today.

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Blue Willow Pottery

Leisner, Georg

Team of German archaeologists who studied megalithic tombs in Iberia. They published a series of monographs, "Die Megalithgräber der Iberischen Halbinsel" (1942-1965).

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Leisner, Georg

Takamatsuzuka

Mounded tomb (tumulus) of the Kofun period which is about 18 m in diameter and 5 m high, dating to the 7th century AD in Nara Prefecture, Japan. Excavation revealed paintings of human and mythological figures and celestial bodies, and murals of Chinese directional symbols, on the walls and the ce...

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Takamatsuzuka

Spear-Thrower

A device which increases the power with which a spear can be hurled; a long stick with a hooked end which holds the butt of a spear. The implement usually has finger grips at one end. The device thus becomes an artificial extension of the thrower's arm, giving him increased leverage and range and...

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Spear-Thrower

Hog-Backed Grave Cover

The distinctive stones used to cover graves during the 10th century AD in northern England and southern Scotland. They are characterized by rectangular blocks of stone with a flat bottom and pitched top. The upper surfaces are usually decorated with interlaced designs. They may have been made in ...

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Hog-Backed Grave Cover

Lerici Periscope

A subsurface detection probe fitted with a periscope or camera and light source, used to examine subterranean chambers - most often Etruscan tombs. The Lerici Foundation of Milan and Rome has had great success with this method since the development of the periscope, first used in 1957 in an Etrus...

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Lerici Periscope

Volute

A spiral scroll decorating capitals of the Ionic order.

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Volute

Boundary

A zone of vertical change from one soil horizon to another. They are described in vertical distance - as abrupt, clear, or gradual - and the horizontal character as being smooth, wavy, or irregular.

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Boundary