Tools - Archaeologs

Tools

Discover the ingenuity and resourcefulness of ancient artisans with our collection of Tools - witness the evolution of technology and craftsmanship over time, from the humble stone tools of early humans to the sophisticated implements of ancient craftsmen and engineers!

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Abolla

Yunan ve Roma uygarlıklarında kullanılan yünlü pelerin. Yunan felsefecilerin giyimlerinin karakteristik bir parçasıyken, Roma'da genellikle askerler tarafından giyilir.

Abolla

A cloak made of a piece of cloth folded double, worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans draped over one shoulder and fastened with a brooch.

Abolla

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Abaculus

Roma uygarlığında yer mozaiklerini oluşturan küçük küp biçimli öğelere verilen ad. Tessera da denir. Değişik renklerde, cam, mermer ve taşlardan kesilmiş olabilirlerdi.

Abaculus

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus.

Abaculus

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Abaci

Roma' da kullanılan, üzerine altından veya gümüşten kaplar ve kıymetli lüks eşyaların dizildiği süs masaları.

Abaci

A table, dresser, or stand for supporting vessels of any kind.

Abaci

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Ard

Antik saban, toprağı tırmalamak yerine yüzeyini çizmekte kullanılan basit bir bıçağa sahip eski bir tarım aletidir. İnsanlar ya da hayvanlar kullanılarak toprağı sürme işlemi yapılırdı. Daha sonraki süreçlerde kullanılan sabanların aksine toprağı sürdükçe çevirmezdi, sadece düz çizgiler çizerdi. ...

Ard

Ards were used by the Celts to plough fields. Unlike modern ploughs, which turn over the soil, ards only broke it up. Double ploughing in opposite directions was therefore necessary, and this criss-cross pattern is visible in aerial photographs of Iron Age settlements.

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 man and grooved the ground, but it had no mold board or colter and therefore did not turn over the soil. With this type of plowcross-plowing was usually ...

Ard

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Fibula

Eski Tunç Çağı'ndan itibaren yaygın olarak, süs eşyası olmasının yanında, giyisileri omuztan tuturmak için kullanılan, üzeri genellikle bezemeli, madeni çengelli iğne veya broş. Tunç çağından Romalıların son zamanlarına kadar kullanılmıştır.

Fibula

Metal and metal composite clothes pins, consisting of a bow, pin and catch, which were used throughout Europe in the 1st millennium BC. Proto-type fibulae seem to have developed in the late 2nd millennium BC, and during the 1st millennium BC these evolved into such a variety of designs that they ...

Fibula

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Leptolithic

Term used to describe industries characterized by thin blade lithic technology (i.e. industries of the Upper Palaeolithic onwards), as opposed to cruder flake technology.

Leptolithic

Leptolitik, Üst Paleolitik dönem içerisindeki alet endüstrisine verilen bir isim. Küçük taş, kaya parçalarından yapılan bıçakları, bıçak takımlarını, kazıma araçlarını, sırtlı bıçakları ve taş kalemlerini içerir. Terim, kelime anlamıyla 'küçük taşlardan' anlamını taşımaktadır. Herhangi bir tarihl...

Leptolithic

Describing industries with many blades and blade tools, especially end scrapers, burins, and backed blades, typical of the Upper Palaeolithic. The term leptolithic, literally 'of small stones', has sometimes been used specifically to refer to this type of stone technology, without any dating conn...

Leptolithic

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Horologium

Horologium, Latince kökenli bir kelime olup, antik Yunan dilinde orologion olarak geçmektedir. Kelime anlamı olarak, “saati söyleyen” denilebilir. “ora”, saat anlamında, “-logion” ise söylemek anlamındadır. Antik Roma ve daha öncesinde güneş ve mevsim saati olarak kullanılmıştır....

Horologium

Horologium is from Latin horologium, from Greek orologion, literally 'that which tells the hour', from ora, 'hour', and -logion, that which tells, from legein to tell. Greek ora, hour, comes from the Indo-European root *yér- 'Year, season'. Derivatives: year, Yahrzeit (the anniversary of the deat...

Horologium

The clepsydra was a hollow globe, with a short neck, and holes in the bottom; it measured time by the escape of water, and was at first used like an hourglass to regulate the length of speeches in the Athenian courts. The escape of water was stopped by inserting a stopper in the mouth, when the s...

Horologium

Sundials preceded all other instruments for the measurement of time. The gnomon or stocheion of the GREEKS was a perpendicular staff or pillar, the shadow of which fell upon a properly marked ground; the polos or heliotropion consisted of a perpendicular staff, in a basin in which the twelve part...

Horologium

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Biconical Urn

Bikonik urne, iki koninin birleşimi şeklinde, keskin hatlara sahip gömü kapları. Genellikler yakılan ölülerin küllerini saklamak ya da bu şekilde gömü yapmak için kullanılmıştır. Erken Tunç Çağı döneminde kullanılmaya başlanmıştır, Kuzeybatı Avrupa'da yoğun olarak kullanılmıştır.

Biconical Urn

This vessel, made without the use of the wheel, served as a cinerary urn. Personal items, such as fibulae or razors, are often found inside these containers in addition to the ashes.

Biconical Urn

Style of early Bronze Age pot found widely in northwestern Europe with a deep, largely plain, outwardly flared body above which is sharp carination, usually decorated and sometimes with an applied cordon, and an inwardly angled neck. The neck is usually decorated with impressed cord designs, and ...

Biconical Urn

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Adze

A cutting tool, similar to an ax, in which the blade is set at right angles to the handle or haft. One of the earliest tools, it was widely distributed in Stone Age cultures in the form of a handheld stone chipped to form a blade. By Egyptian times, it was made of stone, metal, or shell and had a...

Adze

Keser, bıçağın sapa veya dik açıda yerleştirildiği bir balta benzeri kesme aleti. Kullanımı en erken başlayan aletlerden birisidir. Stone Age kültürü ve benzer kültürlerde yoğun olarak kullanılmıştır. Mısırda taştan, metalden ve sert kabuklar gibi metaryallerden yapılmıştır, sap eklenmiştir....

Adze

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Sarcophagus

Sarkofag, tabut veya mezar şeklinde sandık. Mermer, taş, ağaç ya da pişmiş topraktan üretilen ve üzerinde kabartmalar, yazılar bulunan mezar çeşidi. Antik çağda daha çok statü sahibi, önemli kişiler için kullanılan mezar-gömü tipidir.

Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus, our term for a stone coffin located above ground, has a macabre origin befitting a macabre thing. Its ultimate source is the Greek word sarkophagos, "eating flesh, carnivorous," a compound derived from sarx, "flesh," and phagein, "to eat." Sarkophagos was also used in the phrase lith...

Sarcophagus

A coffin or sepulchral chest of stone, wood, lead, or terra-cotta, typically carved or inscribed and intended to be exposed to view. In Egypt it was the outermost container, with one or more wooden coffins and a mummy case within. Greek for flesh-eater" or "flesh-swallowing" it is also the term f...

Sarcophagus

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Obsidian

Volkanik lavların suyla karşılaşıp aşırı hızlı bir şekilde donmasıyla oluşan doğal bir camdır. Keskin, kolay işlenebilir ve kırılgan yapıdadır. Volkanik aktivite bulunan yerlerde bulunur. Cam parlaklığında ve yarısaydam görünümdedir. Tarih öncesi zamanlarda alet yapımı gibi alanlarda kullanımı ya...

TurkishTools, Artifacts

Obsidian

A jet-black to gray, naturally occurring volcanic glass, formed by rapid cooling of viscous lava. It was often used as raw material for the manufacture of stone tools and was very popular as a superior form of flint for flaking or as it is easily chipped to form extremely sharp edges. Obsidian br...

EnglishTools, Artifacts

Obsidian

A glassy, volcanic rock, often black in color, was used in ancient times to produce extremely sharp blades. Obsidian blades can have an edge so sharp that they have been successfully used as scalpels in heart and eye surgery.

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Obsidian

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Anvil

A block, usually of iron, upon which objects are shaped and hammered e.g. in smithing.

Anvil

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