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Lerna

Long-lived coastal settlement site near Argos in the Peloponnese, southern Greece. Middle and Late Neolithic villages were succeeded by a fortified township of Early Helladic II (c 3000 BC, Early Bronze Age). At this stage it was a fortified township, surrounded by a stone wall with D-shaped bast...

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Lerna

Inca

South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from the northern border of modern Ecuador to the Maule River in central Chile. The Inca established their capital at Cuzco (Peru) in the 12th centur...

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Inca

Plow Mark

Any mark left in buried soil indicating that the land has been plowed at some remote time, giving evidence of ancient agricultural activity. Plow marks have been found, for example, under several British Neolithic monuments and are valuable evidence for ancient clearance and cultivation. They are...

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Plow Mark

Close

To stop digging an archaeological unit; to complete the excavation of an archaeological unit.

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Close

Breasted, James Henry

American Egyptologist, archaeologist, and historian who excavated Megiddo (Armageddon), established ancient Egyptian historical periods, and founded University of Chicago's Oriental Institute (1919). Breasted promoted research on ancient Egypt and the ancient civilizations of western Asia as well...

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Breasted, James Henry

Magnetometry

Detecting buried remains through magnetic variations between them and the surrounding soil.

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Magnetometry

Cultural Revival

Reacceptance of cultural forms or ideas that had fallen into disuse.

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Cultural Revival

Sociotechnic

A category of material culture in which items are inferred to have served social roles, such as identity marking.

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Sociotechnic

Painted Grey Ware

A pottery type characteristic of Iron Age sites in northern India, with its center of distribution in the eastern Punjab and central Ganges Valley. It was a fine, wheelmade, thin-walled ware with a gray surface decorated with simple designs of circles and pothooks, made before 500 BC. The designs...

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Painted Grey Ware

Byzovaya

An Upper Palaeolithic site in Russia, the northernmost Palaeolithic site in Europe (65?) and probably occupied before the last glacial maximum (before 25,000 bp).

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Byzovaya

Bioarchaeology

A subdiscipline of biology that integrates the concepts of human biology with those of anthropological archaeology.

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Bioarchaeology

Kerma

The site of a capital of an independent Nubian/Kushite kingdom which became prominent after a northward retreat of the Egyptians during the 13th Dynasty, c 1700 BC. On the third Nile cataract in Upper Nubia (Sudan), it came into existence during the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms (2686-1650 BC)...

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Kerma