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Acheulian

A European culture of the Lower Paleolithic period named for Saint-Acheul, a town in northern France, the site of numerous stone artifacts from the period. The conventional borderline between Abbevillian and Acheulian is marked by a technological innovation in the working of stone implements, the...

Aceramic Neolithic

Early part of the Neolithic period in western Asia before the widespread use of pottery (c. 8500-6000 bc in an economy based on the cultivation of crops or the rearing of animals or both. Aceramic Neolithic groups were in the Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B), Zagros area (Karim Shahir, Jarm...

Aceramic

Without pottery or not using pottery; a term applied to periods and societies in which pottery is not used, especially in contrast to other periods of ceramic use and with neighboring ceramic cultures. Aceramic societies may use bark, basketry, gourds, leather, etc. for containers.

Accession Number

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

Accession Catalog

An accounting system used in the lab after artifacts and ecofacts are initially processed and providing the numbers with which artifacts and ecofacts are marked for storage. Its records describe and record what was found during an archaeological investigation and it is the primary record for all ...

Acanthus

Conventionalized representation of the leaf of the Acanthus spinosus plant, found on the lower parts of Corinthian and Composite capitals, and also used for enrichment of various elements in Classical architecture.

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Abydos Ware

Pottery of Canaanite (Syro-Palestinian) origin found in the royal tombs of the 1st and 2nd dynasties (the Old Kingdom) at Abydos, Saqqara, Abusir el-Melek, and other sites in Upper Egypt, dating to the Early Bronze Age II (3300-2700 bc The pottery, often red-rose slipped and burnished or painted ...

EnglishAncient Pottery

Abydos

Two hieroglyphic inscriptions containing the names of Egyptian kings that were found on the walls in a small temple at Abydos, Egypt. The first tablet has the names of the kings of the 12th and 18th dynasties and it is now in the British Museum. The second tablet begins with Menes, one of the fir...

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Absorption

Process by which a liquid is drawn into and fills the pores of a permeable, porous body.

Absolute Dating

Determination of age with reference to a specific time scale, such as a fixed calendrical system or in years before present bp based on measurable physical and chemical qualities or historical associations such as coins and written records. The date on a coin is an absolute date, as are ad 1492 a...

Absolute Age

Amount of time elapsed, with reference to a specific time scale, since an object was made or used.

Abrader

A stone tool with abrasive qualities, such as pumice or sandstone, used in grinding, smoothing, sharpening, or shaping tools or other objects. [abrading stone]

Abrade

To scrape or wear away by friction or erosion. [abrasion (n.)]

Abingdon Ware

A Neolithic pottery c. 3900-3200 bc found in a causewayed camp about 15 km south of Oxford, England. The pottery is fairly heavy and formed into round-bottomed bowls with frequentstroke decoration and some having handles.

EnglishAncient Pottery, Tools

Abingdon Ware

archaeologsAncient Pottery, Tools

Abejas Phase

First important agricultural phase in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico, dated 3500-1500 bc after the introduction of maize.

Abbevillian

Name for the period of the earliest hand-ax industries of Europe, taken from Abbeville, the type site near the mouth of the River Somme in northern France. The site is a gravel pit in which crudely chipped oval or pear-shaped hand axes were discovered, probably dating to the Mindel glaciation. Th...

Abacus

A calculating table or frame, specifically one in which balls slide upon wires, used for the mechanical solution of arithmetical problems.

EnglishArchitectural

Sailendra

Mahayana Buddhist dynasty that appeared suddenly in the late 8th century in Central Java. Its name (‘King of the Mountain’) has been seen as the claim to ‘Universal Rulership’, taken over from the kings of Fun an ; indeed, the Sailendras exercised a sort of hegemony in the region, extending even ...

Sialk, Tepe

Tell site near Kashan on the Iranian plateau, occupied from the 6th to the 1st millennium bc. The earliest settlement was built of pisé, though no house plans were recovered; painted pottery was in use and some ornaments of hammered copper occurred. In Period II, after c5000 bc, mudbrick architec...

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Srivijaya

An ancient Sumatran kingdom centred on Palembang, which came into being at the end of the 7th century and developed rapidly. This development may be linked with the dismemberment of Funan. First mentioned by the Chinese pilgrim I-Ching as an important centre of Buddhist learning and a relay stati...

Szeletian

An early Upper Palaeolithic culture named after the cave of Szeleta in Hungary. It is characterized by leaf points, and seems to mark the transition from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Upper Palaeolithic. Indeed, the earlier Szeletian level from the type site could be regarded as Mousterian, whil...

Szegvar-Tuzkoves

Nucleated open settlement of the later Neolithic period, situated near Szentes in southeast Hungary. Two occupation horizons are represented: a SzakalhAt (Alfold Linear pottery) level dated to the late 5th millennium be and a thick Tisza culture level dated to the 4th millennium be. Several compl...

Szegvar-Tuzkoves

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Szakalhat

The eponymous site of a later Neolithic regional group of the Alfold Linear Pottery, located in the town of Hodmez-dvdsarhely in southeast Hungary. The settlement has two occupation layers, a level with late Alfold Linear pottery and a level with Szakalhat pottery. For many years Hungarian archae...

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