Liao Dynasty

Trajectory

In systems thinking, the series of successive states through which the system proceeds over time, said to represent the long-term behavior of the system.

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Trajectory

Harmal, Tell

An administrative center, Shaduppum, of the kingdom of Eshnunna of the Old Babylonian period, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. It was a walled settlement (Shaduppum) from the early 2nd millennium BC with several temples, residential buildings, and a collection of literary, scholarly, and admini...

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Harmal, Tell

Assimilation

In a sociocultural system, the integration of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups to the culture, ethnic identity, and language of the dominant cultural group.

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Assimilation

Kiln Site

Centers for the production of glazed stonewares during the early 2nd millennium AD on mainland Asia. The best-known were at Phnom Kulen and Buriram (Angkor), Go Sanh (Champa), and Kalong and Sukhothai (Thailand). There were also sites in north Vietnam and Burma.

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Kiln Site

Soft Paste

Artificial porcelain, made in Europe before the discovery of kaolin, one of the ingredients necessary for true, or hard-paste, porcelain. It was manufactured from white clays, mixed with ground glass to give it translucency. It was first produced at the Medici factory in Florence between 1575 and...

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Soft Paste

Marshall, Sir John

British archaeologist who worked in India as Director-General of Archaeological Survey in India and who was part of revealing India's long prehistory. He excavated at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro and at sites of the Indus Civilization. He discovered much about the Chalcolithic cultures preceding it. ...

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Marshall, Sir John

Sampung

Area in east-central Java and name of a mid-Holocene industry characterized by stone points and bone tools. The sites include Gua Lawa, Gunung Cantalan, Petpuruh, Sodong, and Marjan.

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Sampung

Füzesabony

The third stage of the early Hungarian Bronze Age, named after the Tószeg Tell in Heves. The Füzesabony culture of the 21st-19th centuries BC is the Hungarian version of the Transylvanian/Rumanian Otomani culture. Most known settlements are unfortified tells with wattle-and-daub timber-framed hou...

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Füzesabony

Vetulonia

Principal Etruscan city and, according to traditional sources, one of the confederation of twelve. The original settlement was probably early Iron Age (Villanovan) and it prospered between the 9th-6th centuries BC. There are Villanovan pits, biconical ossuaries (a type of circular tomb with a tum...

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Vetulonia

Lateral Section

A cross section in which the cut is made perpendicular to the base line of the artifact drawing and the outline of the section is oriented like a profile view but in horizontal alignment with the points through which the cut was made

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Lateral Section

Blade Tool

A tool made from a single thin narrow flake detached from a core. The controlled flaking technique is characteristic of the Upper Palaeolithic but it is also known from earlier cultures.

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Blade Tool

Use-Wear Striae

Polish, striations, breakage, or minor flaking which develop on a tool's edge during use. Microscopic examination and study of the wear may indicate the past function of tools.

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Use-Wear Striae