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Yan Xiadu

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Yanik Tepe

A tell site near Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan in northwest Iran. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dated to the mid-6th millennium be. Nine phases of occupation of this early period were recognized, characterized by rectangular mud-brick houses with plaster...

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Yangshao

[Yang-shao]. A site in Mianchi Xian, western Henan province, China, that has given its name to one of the two broad divisions of the Chinese Neolithic, also called the Painted Pottery Neolithic (the other is the Longshan or Black Pottery Neolithic). The Yangshao site itself is an unimportant repr...

Yangshao

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Yandunshan

[Yen-tun-shan]. SeeDANTU.

Yandunshan

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Yan

[Yen]. The name of a fief established early in the Western Zhou dynasty of China in the vicinity of Beijing and of the independent state that succeeded it in the Eastern Zhou period. A cemetery site at Beijing and isolated finds of bronze ritual vessels farther north in Kezuo Xian, Liaoning provi...

Yamato

(1) The name of an old province located in the present Nara prefecture, Japan. (2) The historians’ name for the ruling lineage, from which the present Imperial family claims its ancestry, and which developed in the Yamato area. (3) An archaic expression for the Japanese and things Japanese. The o...

Yala Alego

Site in southwestern Kenya, north of the Winam Gulf of northeastern Lake Victoria, where Early Iron Age Urewe ware is dated to the first half of the 1st millennium ad and associated with evidence for the working of iron.

Yala Alego

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Yahya

Tell site in the province of Kerman in southeast Iran. It was occupied from the 5th millennium bc to the 3rd, with some later occupation up to the Sassanian period. In the late 4th and early 3rd millennium bc it was an important trading centre. The main commodity traded was locally quarried steat...

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Yahya

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Yagul

See Mitla.

Yagul

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Xun Xian

[Hsiin-hsien]. SeeXiNCUN.

Xun Xian

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Xolod

See Quetzalcoatl. X-ray fluorescence spectrometry [XRF]. A technique of chemical analysis. Principle. An artefact (or sample, if the artefact is too large to fit inside the chamber of the machine) is irradiated with X-rays. Resultant changes within the atoms of the material cause secondary X-rays...

Xolod

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Xochicalco

One of the earliest fortified sites of the Early Post-Classic and a likely beneficiary of the collapse of Teotihuacan (see also Cholula). Located on one of a string of hills in southern Morelos, Mexico, the site is positioned to control access to the Balsas River drainage. A strong Teotihuacan in...

Xipe Totec

See Aztec, Quetzalcoatl.

Xipe Totec

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Xiongnu

[Hsiung-nu]. A large tribal confederation of mounted nomads that dominated the Mongolian steppes during much of the Han dynasty. Formed near the end of the 3rd century bc, the confederacy reached the height of its power in the early 2nd century bc, when it defeated the Yuezhi. For the next two ce...

Xinzheng

[Hsin-cheng]. district in central Henan province, China, where an early Eastern Zhou tomb was rifled in 1923. More than a hundred bronze ritual vessels and bells said to belong to the find are now divided among museums in Beijing and Taibei. The somewhat disparate contents of the hoard, accumulat...

Xinyang

[Hsin-yang]. A district on the Huai River in southernmost Henan province, China. Two large Chu tombs of the 4th century bc were excavated at Xinyang Changtaiguan in 1957-8. Among the tomb furnishings were a set of 13 bronze bells and many fine painted lacquers. The bells were the first to be foun...

Xindian

[Hsin-tien]. SeeQiJiA.

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