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Avdeevo

An Upper Palaeolithic site near Kursk in Russia with a single occupation between 11,950-22,700 BP. There were pits and hearths and artifacts of shouldered points and animal and Venus figurines. Woolly mammoth dominates the large faunal assemblage.

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Avdeevo

Unifacial

Pertaining to a flaked stone tool with only one face or side retouched to make a sharp edge.

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Unifacial

Myrina

City on the western coast of Turkey with Hellenistic cemeteries containing hundreds of terra-cotta figurines.

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Myrina

Ball Clay

A fine-textured, highly plastic sedimentary clay, usually composed of the mineral kaolinite, typically containing considerable organic matter and firing white or cream

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Ball Clay

Inclusion

Material added to clay to provide strength and improve the firing process.

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Inclusion

Jiggering

A pottery-forming technique that involves use of a rotating mold that leaves its impression on either the interior or exterior surface of the vessel, which is otherwise shaped by wheel-throwing. When the clay body is placed within a concave mold, the process may be called jollying.

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Peat

An accumulation of dead organic matter, mostly from plants, which becomes preserved mainly by the exclusion of oxygen. It is dark brown or black and partially decomposed, being preserved under anaerobic conditions in an environment of excessive moisture. Peat forms mostly in bogs and fens; the im...

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Peat

Sedimentary Structure

The observable properties of sediments: composition, size, shape, orientation, and grain packing. These properties combine to provide data on processes and environment, giving much information about the past.

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Sedimentary Structure

Cartouche

The name given to the oval or oblong figures in Egyptian hieroglyphics which enclosed characters representing royal or divine names or titles. The term is also used for the amulet of similar design worn in ancient Egypt as a protection against the loss of one's name (i.e., one's identity). In arc...

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Cartouche

Aha

One of the earliest 1st Dynasty rulers of a unified Egypt, whose name means "The Fighter". Funerary remains at Abydos Saqqara and Naqada attest the reign and Flinders Petrie's excavation at Umm el-Qa'ab (Early Dynastic cemetery at Abydos) in 1899-1900 revealed objects bearing the name Aha in Tomb...

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Aha

Astarte

The goddess of the ancient Near East that was the chief deity of many important sites and the fertility goddess of the Phoenicians and the Canaanites. She is sometimes equated with Egyptian Isis, Babylonian Ishtar, Carthaginian Tanit, and Greek Aphrodite, Cybele, and Hera. She originated in Syria...

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Chagar Bazar

A tell site on a tributary of the River Khabur in northeast Syria with levels from the 5th millennium BC (Halaf period) to the mid-2nd millennium BC. It gradually grew in size and importance and during the reign of the Assyrian king, Shamsi Adad I (early 2nd millennium BC) and was an administrati...

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Chagar Bazar