Kansanshi

Tating Ware

Distinctive type of ceramic pitcher probably made in the Rhineland during the 8th century AD. Readily recognizable because it was decorated with applied tin foil. Tating ware was widely traded to sites along the North Sea and English Channel coasts and beyond.

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Tating Ware

Emirean

An early Upper Palaeolithic industry of the Levant region, named for the Emireh cave at the north end of the Sea of Galilee (Israel) which yielded tools and triangular arrowheads with a base tapered by means of bifacial retouches (Emireh points). It is the earliest stage of the Upper Palaeolithic...

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Emirean

Seismic Surveying

A method of remote sensing that uses vibrations sent into the earth which are flected back by buried matter, helping to locate archaeological deposits.

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Seismic Surveying

Linear Pottery Culture

The earliest Neolithic culture of central Europe, western Ukraine to eastern France, between c 4500-3900 BC. It is so named after curvilinear incised patterns which make its pottery so recognizable. This was the first farming culture in central Europe, based on grain cultivation and domesticated ...

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Linear Pottery Culture

Emporium

A place that served as a center of commerce and characterized by a wide range of goods. They were often located at seaports where imported merchandise was warehoused and sold. The remains of the ancient emporium of Rome have been discovered on the banks of the Tiber.

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Emporium

Plane Table

Portable surveying instrument that consists of a drawing board and a ruler (alidade) mounted on a tripod and used to sight and map topographic details and to plot survey lines directly form field observations. This piece of equipment is much used in earlier surveying and map-making. One end of th...

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Plane Table

Kokkinopilos

A series of Palaeolithic sites on the Louros River in northern Greece. There are artifacts dating to the early Last Glacial, Middle Palaeolithic artifacts including Levallois cores, sidescrapers, and bifacial foliates. A surface collection of Mousterian types has also been found.

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Kokkinopilos

Aeginetan Marbles

Archaic Greek sculpture discovered in the temple of Pallas-Athene at Aegina, an island in the Saronic group of Greece. They are in the Glyptothek at Munich, Germany. Aegina's period of glory was the 5th century BC, which left a legacy of sculpture.

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Aeginetan Marbles

Iona

An island of the Inner Hebrides off the coast of Scotland. In 563, it was granted by Connal of Dálriada to St. Columba for the founding of a monastery. It was the base from which the Celtic church, under Columba, Aidan, and their successors, converted northern Britain to Christianity. Lindisfarne...

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Iona

Rhythmite

A sedimentary structure of rhythmically paired laminations or beds. The flat-lying, fine-grained bottomset beds of many large former glacial lakes filled in and buried all of the pre-existing relief and are now exposed, forming perfectly flat lake plains. Cuts into these sediments often reveal rh...

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Rhythmite

Incurvate

A term to describe the outline or shape that is indented or convex. A form of Basal edge or Stem Base outline.

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Incurvate

Chryselephantine Statue

A type of figurine sculpture made of ivory and gold. The flesh was of ivory and the drapery of gold. These were produced in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete, and in Greece from the 6th century BC. They were often colossal cult figures placed in the interiors of major temples, such as that of...

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Chryselephantine Statue