Herat

A town and province in western Afghanistan, important in pre-Islamic times and sometimes identified as the capital of the Achaemenid satrapy of Aria and the Hellenistic city of Alexandria Ariana. The principal monuments of Herat were built in the reigns of the Timurid rulers Shah Rukh (1405-1447)...

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Polished Tool

Any artifact made by the pecking or grinding of hard stones. The Neolithic Period was the first widespread used of polished rock tools, notably axes, with the adoption of a new technique of stoneworking. The revolutionary method used to create polished tools was essentially a finishing process th...

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Polished Tool

Ghana

The earliest and one of the most important of the West African empires, on the border of southern Mauretania and Mali and dating from at least the 8th century AD. It may have arisen as an organization of agricultural people who fought Saharan nomads. This early Sudanic state was well-established ...

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Banjica

A settlement on the slopes of the Avala Hill in Belgrade, Serbia. One of the horizons has been dated to c 3760 BC. The culture is Vinca and some complete house plans have been recovered with details of food preparation, weaving,, working pits, etc. Pottery with incised signs might indicate ritual...

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Banjica

Cemetery

A place set apart for burial or entombment of the dead.

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Cemetery

Antonine Wall

A defensive fortification on the frontier of the Roman Empire in Scotland, built by the governor Lollius Urbicus for the emperor Antoninus Pius c 142-145 AD. It spans the distance between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, running for 36.5 miles (58.5 km) with 19 forts on its ...

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Antonine Wall

Arene Candide

A cave site at Finale Ligure on the Italian Riviera whose excavation revealed a stratigraphy extending from the Upper Palaeolithic through Epi-Palaeolithic, to Early, Middle, and Late Neolithic, as well as poor levels from the Bronze and Iron Ages up to the Roman period. There were some rich buri...

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Arene Candide

Petrographic Analysis

A technique that analyzes the mineral composition of an artifact's temper and clay through microscopic observation of thin sections

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Petrographic Analysis

Sangoan

Stone tool industry or complex of Sango Bay in Uganda on Lake Victoria, a Mainly Middle Pleistocene series of assemblages containing heavy-duty picks (core axes), handaxes, scrapers, finely flaked lanceolate points, cleavers, and small specialized tools. The Sangoan may have developed from a late...

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Sangoan

Palafitta

The Italian name for villages of pile dwellings in the northern part of the country. Most of these lakeside villages belong to the Neolithic period and earlier part of the Bronze Age. Later changes in water levels have caused many of these villages to become submerged.

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Palafitta

Sedimentary Rock

Rock that is the result of consolidation of sediments.

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Sedimentary Rock

Wabet

In ancient Egypt, the place where part of purification or mummification rites took place.

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Wabet

Trace Element

Elements present in a mineral in minor proportions (between 0.1-2.0%) but which are frequently characteristic of the original source of the material. Trace elements occur naturally in minerals in soils and sediment and are not added deliberately to a substance. Minute amounts of chemical elements...

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