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Skewer
Pişirirken eti bir arada tutmak için kullanılan iğne.
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Canaanite Amphora
Kenan amphoraları, Doğu Akdeniz'de Geç Tunç Çağı'nın ortak nakliye amphoralarıdır. Kenan amforaları ortalama 30 inç yüksekliğindedir ve kısa, nispeten dar dışa dönük bir ağza, üzerinde iki kulp bulunan geniş bir omuza ve dar sivri bir tabana kadar inen bir sivri profile sahiptir. Doğu Akdeniz'de ...
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Toggling Harpoon
Şafta bir hat ve şamandıra ile tutturulmuş bir tür ayrılabilir zıpkın kafası.
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Ansa Lunata
Bir kap veya vazo üzerinde iki zıt yönde veya iki farklı aks üzerinde giden kulp veya kulplar. Terim, Apenin kültürüne ait Terramara çanak çömleklerini ve Orta Avrupa'dan Geç Tunç Çağına kadar Orta Avrupa'daki kapları tanımlar.
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Stibadium
The stibadium (plural: stibadia) is a later form of the Roman lectus triclinaris, the reclining seat used by diners in the triclinium. Originally, the lecti were arranged in a group of three in a semi-circle. The stibadium was a single semi-circular couch, fitting up to a dozen people, which repl...
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Stibadium
Stibadium, triclinium'da yemek yiyenler tarafından kullanılan yatar koltuk olan Roma lectus triclinaris'in daha sonraki bir şeklidir.
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Stibadium
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Notching Flake
Çentik pulu, taş bir alete saplama çentikleri yerleştirildiğinde oluşan pul. ...
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Biconical Urn
Στυλ αγγείου της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού της βορειοδυτικής Ευρώπης με ένα βαθύ, σε μεγάλο βαθμό απλό, φουσκωμένο προς τα έξω σώμα. Πάνω από αυτό είναι ένα κοφτερό γαρίφαλο, διακοσμημένο και μερικές φορές με εφαρμοσμένο κορδόνι, και ένας λαιμός με γωνία προς τα μέσα με εντυπωσιακά σχέδια κορδονι...
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Aulos
Aulos, plural auloi, Roman tibia plural tibiae, in ancient Greek music, a single- or double-reed pipe played in pairs (auloi) during the Classical period. After the Classical period, it was played singly. Under a variety of names it was the principal wind instrument of most ancient Middle Eastern...
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Aulos
Yunan müziğinin tok ya da çift dilli kavalı, Romalılar tarafından tıbia adı ile kullanılmıştır. Klasik Dönemde ikili (auloi), daha sonra tek olarak çalındı. Çeşitli adlar altında Ortadoğu halklarının ana çalgısı oldu. İkili olarak çalındığında her iki elde kamıştan, ağaçtan ya da madenden yapılm...
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Aulos
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Bossed Bone Plaque
Uzun hayvan kemiklerinden yapılmış ve bir dizi kabartma ile oyulmuş işlevi bilinmeyen nesneler - dairesel, kare veya oval süs motifleri. Lerna, Truva ve Altamira'dan örnekler MÖ 3. binyılın sonlarına tarihlenir. En iyileri de oymalı dekorasyona sahiptir. Sicilya, Castelluccio'dan İtalya ve Malta'...
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Costrel
Çoğunluğu deriden yapılmış ve günümüze ulaşmamış bir tür ortaçağ çömlek şişesi. Merovenj ve Karolenj çömlek paftaları, tıpa için hafif boyunlu, kabaca yuvarlak şekilli olma eğilimindedir. En çok bilineni, orta Rheinland'ın 'Badorf tipi' endüstrilerinde yapılan ve 870 yılına tarihlenen bir Viking ...
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Coracle
Çimen, sazlık veya fidanlarla kaplı, ilkel, hafif, çanak şeklinde küçük tekne.
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Glans Plumbea
[Latince: "kurşun meşe palamudu"]. Bir kurşun jeton, Roma ordusundan bir el cephanesi. Miktar ve yüksek hız bakımından sapan kullanan askerler tarafından taşlara alternatif olarak kullanılmıştır.
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Butcher Marks
Marks made on animal bone by stone tools during butchering. These marks are used to associate humans with animal remains for a relative date. The marks are classified according to form and function as cut marks, chop marks, and scrapes. [chop marks, cut marks, scrapes]
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Butcher Marks
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Bucket Urn
Type of large Middle Bronze Age pot of the Deverel- Rimbury ceramic tradition of southern Britain c. 1500 bc through to 1200 bc . Bucket urns are plain with some applied cordons, have straight slightly sloping sides, wider at the top than the bottom. They were used on domestic sites for storage a...
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Bucket Urn
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Bossed Bone Plaque
Objects of unknown function made from long animal bones and carved with a row of bosses - circular, square, or oval ornamental motifs. Examples from Lerna, Troy, and Altamira date to the late 3rd millennium bc . The finest have engraved decoration also. A series from Castelluccio, Sicily, with ou...
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Blade
A long, narrow, sharp-edged, thin flake of stone, used especially as a tool in prehistoric times. This flake was detached by striking from a prepared core, often with a hammer. Its length is usually at least twice the width. The blade may be a tool in itself, or may be the blank from which a two-...
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Bit
A metal mouthpiece attached to a bridle, used to control a horse. The domesticated horse was probably first controlled with a simple halter. The bit consists of a bit-mouth and adjacent parts to which the reins are attached. Bits with cheekpieces of antler did not appear in central Europe until a...
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Bit
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Biconical Urn
Style of Early Bronze Age pot of northwestern Europe with a deep, largely plain, outwardly flared body. Above that is a sharp carination, decorated and sometimes with an applied cordon, and an inwardly angled neck with impressed cord designs. The rim is typically beveled and lightly ornamented.
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Basketmaker Tradition
Late Archaic and Post-Archaic sedentary communities living in southwestern parts of North America between c. 1000 bc and ad 750 with three main phases. Basketmaker Phase I, dated to c. 1000-1 bc , is essentially the same as the Archaic. Basketmaker Phase II, c. ad 1-450, is the same as the Desert...
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Basketmaker Tradition
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Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead
Triangular-shaped flint arrowheads of the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Europe. They are distinctive in having a short rectangular tang on the base opposite the point, symmetrically set either side of which is a barb. The tang was used to secure the arrow tip to its shaft and usually pr...
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Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead
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Armorican Axe
Rather plain and shoddily made type of socketed bronze ax produced in the period 650-600 bc at the very end of the Bronze Age of northern France (Hallstatt II). Mostly found in large hoards, in which few examples appear to have been finished or used. This has led to the suggestion that they were ...
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African Red Slip Ware
Kuzey Afrika'da İ.S. 3. yüzyıldan 6. yüzyıla kadar yapılmış bir tür kırmızı parlak seramik. Parçalar damgalı süslemelere sahipti ve yaygın olarak ticareti yapılıp dağıldı.
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African Red Slip Ware
A type of red gloss pottery made in North Africa from the 3rd to 6th centuries ad. The pieces had stamped decoration and were widely distributed.
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Awl
A small tool consisting of a thin, tapering, sharp-pointed blade of bone, flint, or metal used for piercing holes, making decorations, or in assisting basketweaving. [bodkin, piercer, pricker] one of the last major categories of stone tool to be invented, around the end of the last Ice Age in the...
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Ard
An ancient light plow with a simple blade that was used to scratch the surface of the soil rather than turn furrows. It was drawn by animals or people and grooved the ground, but it had no mold board or colter and therefore did not turn over the soil. With this type of plow cross-plowing was usua...
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Archaic Majolica
A series of jugs and bowls of the early 13th to late 16th centuries in Tuscan and Italian towns. They were decorated with geometric motifs, leaves, and other forms outlined in brown and set into green or brown backgrounds. They were sold as far apart as Spain, North Africa, and northern Europe. T...
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Archaic Majolica
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Anvil
A block, usually of iron, upon which objects are shaped and hammered, e.g., in smithing.
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Anterior Scar Height
Bivalve measurement.
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Anterior Scar Height
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Allerod Oscillation
An interstadial (transient) period of glacial retreat at the close of the Würm glacial stage in Europe, dated to c. 12,00011,000 years ago. This temporary increase in warmth allowed forests to establish themselves for a time in the ice-free zones. Radiocarbon dates show similar conditions prevail...
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Allerod Oscillation
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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.
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Abingdon Ware
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Obsidian Hydration Dating
A method of dating artefacts of obsidian. Principles. Surface layers of obsidian artefacts undergo a gradual chemical change as a result of the inward diffusion of water. This ‘hydration’ commences as soon as the artefact is made and has surfaces exposed to the atmosphere. If the rate of hydratio...
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Obsidian
Black, naturally occurring volcanic glass, from which artefacts may be made. This brittle material can be easily chipped to produce implements with an extremely sharp edge; for this reason and because of its splendid appearance obsidian was highly prized by communities in several different parts ...
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Leptolithic
It is well known that blades and blade tools, especially end scrapers, burins and backed blades, are typical of the Upper Palaeolithic. The term Leptolithic has sometimes been used specifically to refer to this type of stone technology, without any necessary implication of age or evolutionary pos...
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Glans Plumbea
[Latin: ‘lead acorn’]. A slug of lead, an item of hand ammunition in the Roman army. They were used in quantity and at high velocity (mostly by specialized corps of funditores, ‘slingsmen’) and as an alternative to stones. Both stone and lead missiles are found inscribed with epigrammatic wishes ...
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Glans Plumbea
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Flake
The removal of a flake from a block of raw material is the basis of flint, and other stone, technology. Flakes vary greatly in shape and size, according to the technique used to remove them. They are generally used as blanks for the manufacture of tools, which is done by the removal of further sm...
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Fibula
Latin word for a common type of brooch, usually made of bronze, resembling the modem safety-pin and used in the fastening of such clothes as tunics and cloaks. The fibula essentially comprises a pin bent round (often with a spiral at the angle) with a catch to hold the point. Alternative forms ha...
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