A term used to describe a rounded tip or blunt tipped artifact.
The earliest kingdom of Laos, founded in 1353, the establishment of an eastern branch of the Thai people in a territory which belonged to the declining Khmer empire of Angkor. The kingdom was formed by the union of the principalities of Muang Chawa (present-day Luang Prabang) and Wian Chan (prese...
The placement of materials in a geographic, temporal, etc. context with other similar artifacts; the study of artifact classes with common characteristics; classification according to artifact type.
A monumental tomb in the shape of a pentahedron, a square base and four straight sides converging to an apex, built by the ancient Egyptians in stone or brick to cover or contain the burial chamber of a pharaoh. Its origin lay in the mudbrick mastaba of the Archaic Period, which in the Old Kingdo...
A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery; is a long, tapered, semi-cylindrical implement with a broad groove or hollow at the U-shaped, scooplike working end
An area of Oceania which was unknown until the 1930s and whose population is Melanesian speakers of Papuan languages. Its prehistory goes back at least 26,000 years and supported agricultural systems dating back at least 6000 years.
A site in southwestern Iran including a large cemetery and platform from Susa's initial occupation, dating to the end of the 5th millennium BC. The site is divided into Acropole 1 and 2; Acropole 1 has provided a sequence of 27 levels up to the Akkadian period. Some levels contain evidence of the...
Major worldwide division of the Tertiary Period that began about 36.6 million years ago and ended about 23.7 million years ago. It follows the Eocene Epoch and precedes the Miocene Epoch. The term Oligocene is derived from Greek and means the epoch of few recent forms referring to the sparseness ...
The sharp ridge that marks the boundary between flake scars on the dorsal surface of a lithic flake.
The application of chemical theories, processes, and experimental procedures to obtaining archaeological data and to solutions of problems in archaeology. This field includes laboratory analysis of artifacts and materials found in archaeological context.
Prehistoric site in Haryana, India, with a double mound consisting two occupational periods. Mitathal I has pottery similar to the Early Harappan site of Kalibangan. The Mitathal II has the same pottery with Mature Harappan changes, also seen in other artifacts and the town layout.
A small edible one-seeded fruit from an Asian tree of the buckthorn family.
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