A. Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
(1827–1900) [Bi]British soldier, anthropologist, and archaeologist often regarded as the ‘father of scientific archaeology’. He was born on 14 April 1827 at Hope Hall near Bramham Park, North ...
Aaron Burr
(1756–1836)US Democratic Republican statesman. After losing the presidential election to Jefferson in 1800, Burr was elected Vice-President. He was defeated in the contest for the governorship of New ...
abacus ([Ar]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
The uppermost member of a capital, set atop a pillar, and, on classical buildings, in contact with the bottom of the ...
abacus
An ancient device for performing arithmetic calculations by sliding beads along rods or in grooves. Despite the spread of electronic calculators and computers, the abacus is still widely used in the ...
῾Abbasid Caliphate Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
As the result of a revolution that culminated In 750
Abbasids ([CP]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
An Arab dynasty descended from Abbas, uncle of Muhammad, who supplanted the Umayyads in
Abbeville
[Si]A gravel pit in the 45 m gravel terrace of the Somme Valley, France, from which numerous handaxes were obtained by Boucher de Perthes and others from ad 1836 onwards and which in 1939 gave its ...
Abbeville, France ([Si]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
A gravel pit in the 45 m gravel terrace of the Somme Valley, France, from which numerous handaxes were obtained by ...
Abbevillian ([CP]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
Now obsolete, this term was originally proposed by Abbé Breuil in ad 1939 to describe the pre‐*Acheulian flint industries of western Europe on the basis of material from Abbeville in ...
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Abbevillian
[CP]Now obsolete, this term was originally proposed by Abbé Breuil in ad 1939 to describe the pre‐Acheulian flint industries of western Europe on the basis of material from Abbeville in France. Also ...
abbey Quick reference
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1 [De] A community of monks or nuns ruled by an abbot or abbess.
2 [MC] A general term used to describe the buildings inhabited by a community of monks ...
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ABC Model
[De]A scheme for the cultural history of the British Iron Age first proposed by Christopher Hawkes in 1931, but expanded and elaborated in the late 1950s as the opening paper at a conference on the ...
ABC Model ([De]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
A scheme for the cultural history of the British Iron Age first proposed by Christopher *Hawkes in 1931, but expanded and elaborated in the late 1950s as the opening paper at a conference ...
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abduction
An inference process widely used in artificial intelligence, particularly in expert systems and rule-based systems. In diagnosis, for example, there may be a rule like “if measles then red spots” so ...
Abejas Phase
[CP]Fourth main phase of activity in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico, dating to the period 4300–3000bc, marked archaeologically by the appearance of semipermanent villages of pit houses, new species of ...
Abejas Phase ([CP]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
Fourth main phase of activity in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico, dating to the period 4300–3000bc, marked archaeologically by the appearance of semipermanent villages of pit houses, new ...
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Abel, Félix-Marie (1878–1953) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
(1878–1953), professor
of history and geography at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem from 1905 to
Abercrombie Caves Quick reference
Kenneth Morgan
Dictionary Plus Archaeology
A series of limestone arch caves situated in the Central West region of New South Wales. The caves were officially
Abercromby, Lord John (1841–1924) Quick reference
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Scottish antiquary who specialized in the prehistory of northwest Europe. Born the 5th Baron of Aboukir and Tullibody, he served in the army from ...
Åberg, Nils (1888–1957) Quick reference
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Swedish archaeologist and scholar with wide interests in European prehistory. A pupil of Oscar Montelius and Professor of Archaeology at Stockholm University, his typological studies of ...
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