Santubong

A complex of open sites on the delta of the Sarawak River in southwestern Sarawak, Borneo. Most sites date between 900 and 1350 and contain evidence for iron-smelting, large quantities of Chinese pottery, and local pottery of Tanjong Kubor type. There is a possible Tantric Buddhist shrine at Bong...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Santiago De Compostella

See pilgrim.

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Santiago De Compostella

Santa Isabel Iztapan

Kill site in the Valley of Mexico near Tepexpan, at which the butchered remains of two imperial mammoths were uncovered in association with flint and obsidian tools. It is important as an indicator of the rapidity with which newly arrived Asian hunters dispersed southward. Its geological context ...

archaeologsEnglishPlace Names

Santa Isabel Iztapan

Santa Ana

Very extensive proto-historical burial ground, now in a suburb of Manila, Philippines, which produced extended burials with large quantities of Chinese monochrome and early blue-and-white pottery of the Sung Dynasty (probably 11th to early 14th century ad). See aZsoCalatagan.

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Santa Ana

Sanskrit

An early Indo-European language, still used in India for religious purposes. The Rigveda, the oldest religious document of India, is written in an archaic form of Sanskrit. The discovery in the late 18 th century that this language was related to Greek and Latin and many other European languages ...

archaeologsEnglishAncient Languages

San Pedro

Most recent of the chronological periods of the Cochise culture. Typically, tool assemblages contain seed-grinding tools such as manos and metates, and a variety of projectile points, including the narrow stemmed, side-notched type which first appeared during Chiricahua. Sites generally became la...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

San Lorenzo

Earliest of the major Olmec ceremonial centres and a site of long occupation. Located in the open country around the Rio Chiquito in southern Veracruz, Mexico, its main construction, oriented on a north-south axis, rests on an artifically modified salt dome. This plateau has a series of man-made ...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sankisa

Holy Buddhist site in the upper Ganges Valley, India, where the Buddha is said to have descended from heaven. It was visited by the emperor Asoka in his pilgrimage of 249 BC and retains the commemorative pillar with its elephant capital erected on that occasion.

archaeologsEnglishOthers

San Jose Mogote

The largest of a number of village communities which developed in the Pre-Classic Period in central Oaxaca, Mexico, some time prior to 1300 be. Established in an area where the water table was a mere three metres below the land surface, agriculture was practised by ‘pot irrigation’, that is, dire...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

San Jose Mogote

Sanjaya

(1) A Sivaite king of the 8th century in Central Java. His earliest inscription dates from 732, and in much later ones he is represented as the founder of the kingdom of Mataram and of a dynasty bearing his name. However, his successor reigned under the suzerainty of the Sailendras. (2) The name ...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sanjaya

Sangoan

The name, derived from Sango Bay on Lake Victoria, Uganda, loosely applied to a rather heterogeneous group of industries in eastern and south-central Africa, and perhaps in West Africa also, following the final Acheulian. Its charactertistic artefacts are massive triangular-sectioned picks and co...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sangiran

The most important locality for Indonesian finds of Homo erectus in central Java. Rich fossil-bearing deposits of both Middle Pleistocene (Trinil fauna) and Lower Pleistocene (Djetis fauna) have yielded fossils of more than four hominid individuals from each level, including five skulls from the ...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sangamon

Group of quaternary interglacial deposits in North America (see Table 7, page 420). The Sangamon comprises a range of sediments, including organic sediment, but is represented mainly by a palaeosol, which overlies Illinoian tills and is covered by Wisconsin loess and tills. This palaeosol can be ...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sangamon

Sanga

Major Iron Age cemetery beside Lake Kisale in the Upemba depression, southeastern Zaire. The numerous graves that have been investigated are attributed to the Kisalian and Kabambian industries.

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sandia Cave

Located in the Sandia Range near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, the lowest levels of this site contained a unique tool assemblage. Radiocarbon dates indicating an age greater than 10,000 years are generally disputed but the Sandia level was overlain by Folsom material. An association with certain ...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sand

Term describing the size of particles which go to make up a sediment, soil or similar material. Sand particles are those between 2mm and 0.06mm (BS 1377) in diameter( see particle size). The term has no implications of colour, organic content or any property other than particle size or texture.

archaeologsEnglishOthers

Sanchi

Site in central India with a famous Buddhist stupa. Excavations have shown that a brick-built stupa of the Asokan period was later encased in stone and surrounded by a stone railing. This stupa measured c40 metres in diameter and cl 8 metres in height.

archaeologsEnglishOthers

San Agustin

Group of sites centred in the area of the headwaters of the Magdalena River in the highlands of Colombia. Though pottery, wattle and daub dwellings, and evidence of irrigation and terracing indicate a long cultural sequence in the region, San Agustin is most notable for its mounds and monumental ...

archaeologsEnglishOthers

San Agustin