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Banshan

Site of a Neolithic cemetery in the Tao River valley of China, the type site of the Banshan (or Pan-shan) culture which belongs to the western or Gansu branch of the Yangshao Neolithic. Banshan is best known for its painted pottery first found in a grave in 1923. Panshan ware is generally conside...

Bannerstone

A stone atlatl - a throwing-stick weight - put on the shaft to give great propulsion to a thrown dart. The stone is perforated for hafting and often has a bipennate, “butterfly” or bannerlike appearance. [banner stone, birdstone, boatstone]

Bann Flake

A type of leaf-shaped flake found widely amongst the later Mesolithic assemblages of Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, and a component of the Bann culture. These are large flakes having no significant tang, with light retouch, either as elongated or laminar forms or as broader leaf-shaped for...

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Bandkeramik

A pottery of the Danubian I culture, a Neolithic culture that existed over large areas of Europe north and west of the Danube River around the 5th millennium bc . It consists of hemispherical bowls and globular jars, usually round-based and strongly suggesting copies of gourds. The name refers sp...

Band

A design element or fundamental part that is continued or repeated along a straight line that, on pottery, most commonly encircles the vessel but may also be vertical or diagonal.

Baluster Jug

A general type of tall medieval jug used in Europe whose height is about three times its diameter.

Ballista

An ancient heavy missile launcher designed to hurl javelins or heavy balls on the principle of a crossbow. The smaller ballista was just that - a basic, large crossbow fastened to a mount. It was also used to hurl iron shafts, Greek fire, heavy darts, etc. during sieges. The huge, complicated Rom...

Ball Clay

A fine-textured, highly plastic sedimentary clay, usually composed of the mineral kaolinite, typically containing considerable organic matter and firing white or cream. [ball-clay]

Ball

A round object used in games. [game ball]

Balance

An apparatus for weighing, usually consists of a beam on a pivot with a means of supporting the object to be weighed on one side and weights on the other.

Baikal Neolithic

Neolithic period of the Lake Baikal region in eastern Siberia. Stratified sites in the area show a long, gradual move from the Paleolithic to Neolithic stage, starting in the 4th millennium bc . The postglacial culture was not “true” Neolithic in that it farmed, but was Neolithic in the sense of ...

Bag Wear

Damage that can occur to artifacts and ecofacts during excavation, transportation, and cataloging.

Badorf Ware

A type of pottery of the 8th to 9th centuries from the hills of Cologne, Germany. The globular pitchers and bowls of the Carolingian period are the best known. Badorf-ware kilns have been excavated at Bruhl-Eckdorf and Walberberg and products have been found in the Netherlands, eastern England, a...

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Badge

A distinguishing emblem or mark, often worn to signify membership, achievement, employment, etc.

Backplate

Plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass.

Backing

1. A type of steep retouch probably used to dull the edge of a flake, making it suitable for hafting or handling with fingers; common on the edge opposite the cutting edge of a knife. 2. Pertaining to enamel or pottery.

Backed Flake

A purposely created stone flake tool which is usually a decortication flake that retains a piece of the cortex on one side and a sharp edge on the other.

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Backed Blade

İn stone toolmaking, a small blade with one edge blunted by further chipping along one edge. This retouching technique was used so that it could be fitted snugly into a haft, to provide a fingerrest, or so that it could be held in the hand without cutting the fingers. [backed knife]

Bacini

Pottery vessels ranging in date from the 11th to 15th centuries and found in northern Italy, especially in medieval churches. They were placed in walls of churches, over church doorways, and in church towers for decorative purposes. These Italian vessels were imported from the Byzantine and Arabi...

B Ware

Ceramic amphorae of the east Mediterranean, from the 1st to the early 7th century ad and divided into four subgroups.

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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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Ax-Hammer

A tool consisting of an ax and a hammer combined, i.e., a shaft-hole ax having a hammer knob in addition. It was primarily a weapon of war, combining the functions of battle ax and mace. [axe hammer, axe-adze, hammer axe]

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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Axle

A rod or spindle, either fixed or rotating, on which a wheel or group of wheels is fixed. The axle cap is usually made of iron; it bound the end of an axle and was perforated to allow a linch pin to pass through the axle and keep the wheel in place.

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