An architectural construction method in which stones are laid on top of one another. Dry-laid are stones laid without mortar, dry-laid/daubed are dry-laid with daub pressed into the joints, and wet-laid are stones set in wet mortar.
The bones of a mammal traditionally defined as one which cannot be seen above long grass. This includes a variety of rodents, lagomorphs (hares and rabbits), insectivores, and carnivores. Bones of these animals are often preserved on archaeological sites. Identification of teeth and jaws of the s...
A limestone massif with a number of caves which have produced material of all periods from Palaeolithic to c 1300 AD in Sarawak, north Borneo. It is one of the major prehistoric deposits of island Southeast Asia with human remains. The most important site, the Great Cave, has deposits which may b...
A wave-like undulation visible on flakes that result from transmission of a shock wave through glass or chert.
Converted to charcoal or carbon usually by heat, organic materials may be preserved. Partial burning reduces the materials to a carbon-rich residue. In the case of wood, this residue is charcoal. Many organic materials may not retain their structure and become an amorphous residue. Charred remain...
The norms guiding the patterns of everyday life in a society.
Artifact made of organic materials - living organisms, including wood, bone, horn, fiber, ivory, or hide.
A subspecies of the wild ass of Asia that ranged in the steppes from northwest Iran to Turkmenistan. Pale-colored and small, it has a short erect mane and fairly large ears. It was domesticated in ancient times but was replaced by the domestic horse and donkey. It now is found in limited numbers ...
A natural feature of a land surface; a feature of the earth created by an erosional or depositional process or series of processes. Landforms together comprise a landscape.
Site in southwest India's eastern Karnata, with a series of Neolithic and Megalithic Grave period occupations. The Neolithic settlements began c 2100 BC and may be associated with the Deccan ash mounds. There was handmade pottery in the early Neolithic, changing to wheelmade and resembling the la...
A rock shelter on the Jos Plateau of central Nigeria with two main artifact-bearing layers, the first containing large scrapers and backed crescent-shaped implements, but no pottery. The later horizon contained a backed microlithic industry and pottery, and dates to 2000 BP.
A common class of sites where tools were made or repaired, resulting in a large number of flakes (and typically few other artifacts) at a site.
A Numidian settlement, the best-preserved ancient Roman city in modern Tunisia, located near modern Tabursuq, west of the ancient road between Carthage and Theveste. It was a dependency of Carthage until the 3rd century AD. Thugga's most notable pre-Roman ruin is a 2nd-century-BC mausoleum, built...
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