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Levallois

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Leubingen

An early Bronze Age chieftain’s burial of the Un£tice culture in Saxony, Germany. It consisted of a lean-to wooden mortuary chamber under a stone cairn, itself covered by a barrow c34 metres in diameter. Inside was the burial of an extended elderly male and, place at right angles across him, a se...

Lej

A small open settlement of the Early Neolithic Cri§ culture, the Rumanian regional variant of the First Temperate Neolithic, with later Boian and Gumelnita occupation levels. Located in the upper Olt Valley and dated typologically to the early 5th millennium be, LeJ is a rare example of a multi-l...

Lej

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Les Eyzies

This village on the Vezere River near the centre of the Dordogne, southwest France, is a natural centre of the rich sites left by prehistoric man in the limestone zone called the Perigord. The chateau and National Museum contains many important finds and underneath it there is a small Magdalenian...

Les Combarelles

A narrow tortuous cave just outside Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, southwest France, where a large series of engravings of Palaeolithic animals was discovered in 1901. Breuil regarded this cave as one of the ‘six giants’ of cave art.

Lerna

Coastal settlement in the Argolid, eastern Peloponnese (southern Greece) occupied in the Neolithic period and the Early and Middle Bronze Age. The Neolithic settlement was followed by a break in occupation and then the site was reoccupied in the Early Helladic II phase, c3000 bc. At this stage it...

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...

Leptis Magna

[also Lepcis (from Punic Lpdy or Lpqy)\. Principal city of Roman North Africa in Libya, particularly well-preserved after its 7th-century decline by the intrusion of the desert sand. It was known to imperial Rome as the birthplace of the Emperor Septimus Severus (193-211) whose Latin was apparent...

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Lepsius

(1810-84). Outstanding German Egyptologist of the 19th century. He followed up the lead of Champollion with further work on the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. He also worked in the field and between 1842 and 1855 led an expedition to record the monuments of Egypt and Nubia. The re...

Lepsius

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Lepenski Vir

A hunter-fisher-gatherer site in the Iron Gates gorge of the River Danube, on the right (Yugoslav) bank. Excavated by D. Srejovic, this site produced a three-level stratigraphy. I-II were Mesolithic levels, dated c5400-4600 be, with trapezoidal houses (often with red plastered floors), stone hear...

Leopards Kopje

(Nthabazingwe]. site near Khami, southwestern Zimbabwe. The name was formerly given to the greater part of the local Iron Age sequence, which was believed to reflect a process of internal development. However, recent research has shown that this sequence, like those in neighbouring areas, include...

Leopards Kopje

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Leopards Hill

Cave in south-central Zambia, east of Lusaka. The dated sequence covers the whole timespan of the south-central African microlithic industries, from their appearance <20,000 be, through a Nachi-kufan I phase and successive stages, to the appearance of the local Early Iron Age in about the 5th cen...

Lengyel

The type site for a widespread Late Neolithic culture of the 4th millennium be, distributed from central Hungary to western Austria and from southern Poland to Srem in Yugoslavia. The Lengyel culture is divided into two main phases: the Painted Lengyel, defined by white, red and yellow crusted wa...

Le Moustier

The type locality of the Mous-terian ‘epoch’ or Middle Palaeolithic, situated on the Vezere River in the Dordogne, southwest France. Upper Palaeolithic levels cover the Mousterian levels in both the classic shelter and the lower shelter. From the lower shelter came a Neanderthal skeleton of nearl...

Le Lazaret

Cave on the coast close to Nice in southern France, with a considerable thickness of deposits from before the last interglacial, with Acheulian tools and interspersed beach deposits. A human skull fragment is known, and it has been claimed that a hut was constructed inside the cave.

Lelang

[Lo-lang; Korean: Nangnang]. A Chinese commandery, located at modem P’ydngyang, established after the Han conquest of the Korean state of Choson in 108 bc. Lelang survived as an outpost of the Chinese empire until ad 313. Tombs excavated by Japanese archaeologists on the outskirts of the city con...

Leland

(1506-52). British antiquary. In his official capacity as King’s Antiquary (a post which unfortunately did not outlive its first and only holder) Leland toured England and Wales describing places of antiquarian interest, including prominent prehistoric sites.

Leland

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Leiwen

[lei-wen]. A cast background pattern of fine spirals, round or angular, used to set off the motifs in the decoration of Chinese bronze ritual vessels, chiefly those of the Anyang and Western Zhou periods (i.e. cl3th-9th centuries bc). See taotie.

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Leiwen

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Lehringen

A site near Bremen in north Germany, where organic muds have revealed In these muds, a yew wood spear 2.4 metres long and broken into several pieces was found. It passed between the ribs of the skeleton of an elephant of Elephas antiquus type. The tip was finely shaved to a point and hardened in ...

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Legion

The principal organizational unit of the Roman army, composed of Roman citizens. The legion changed size and character over the Roman period, ranging from a unit of 3,000 with a property qualification under the early kings, to one of6,000 in the final century of the Republic. Numbers changed agai...

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