Drachma

A Greek silver coin equivalent to six obols. In Athens, drachma were often decorated with Athena's head and her owl.

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Ucayali Sequence

In eastern Peru, a number of sites near Pucallpa, where the many pottery styles have been placed into a 4,000-year sequence.

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Ucayali Sequence

Accession Number

The number assigned to an archaeological collection that identifies its origin; part of the catalog number.

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Ayacucho Complex

A valley in southern Peru, north of the city of Ayacucho, with a series of caves - notably Pikimachay (Flea) Cave and Jayamachay (Pepper) Cave - which were the site of a complex of unifacial chipped tools (basalt and chert core tools, choppers, unifacial projectile points) and bone artifacts (hor...

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Ayacucho Complex

Welding

The joining together of pieces of metal, esp. iron and steel, by heating and hammering or pressure. It was done to combine the different qualities of malleability or hardness of these metals. This method was used in Europe at end of Iron Age to produce effective sword blades. Later, welding was d...

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Welding

Egolzwil

A series of Neolithic sites around former Lake Wauwil in Switzerland from the earliest phase of the Neolithic in that area. Most of them belong to the Cortaillod culture and have well-preserved organic material. The site of Egolzwil 4 had ten rectangular wooden houses placed close together. Food ...

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Akh

In Egyptian religion, the spirit of a deceased person and one of the five principal elements considered part of a complete personality - the other four being the ka, ba, name, and shadow. Akh is a state in the afterlife, both immortal and unchangeable, and the result of the successful reunion of ...

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Akh

Feather Termination

A gradual thinning of a lithic flake at the distal end to an extremely sharp point or edge.

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Feather Termination

Network Analysis

The study of any network or system of links, sites, points, and nodes, especially a communication system such as roads. The way in which the network is organized is studied rather than the actual lengths of the links, to determine the degree to which an efficient system has been evolved. Roman ro...

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Network Analysis

Páramos

A biome of wet grasslands or forests at high elevations with alpine-type vegetation characterized by tussock grasses and cushion plants.

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Páramos

Caelatura

From the Latin word meaning "to emboss, engrave" a general term for working in metal by raised work or intaglio such as engraving carving chasing riveting soldering or smelting. Similar work on wood ivory marble glass or precious stones was called sculptura.

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Caelatura

Ogham

A Celtic script used for writing in northwest Europe, probably created in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD, and used for writing Irish and Pictish languages. The alphabet has 20 letters represented by tally marks on either side of or crossing a horizontal baseline. The script is better suited for carving...

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Ogham

Aqar Quf

The settlement site of the Kassite city of Dur-Kurigalzu in northern Babylonia (Iraq) dating c 1400-1150 BC. There was a ziggurat and temple complex.

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