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1. Abbevillian, adj. and n. View full entry 1934
...Archaeol. Designating a culture of the Lower Palaeolithic dated to about 700,000–500,000 years ago, characterized by the first appearance in Europe of crude hand axes and now often subsumed in, or...
2. Abbevillian, adj. and n. View full entry 1937
...Archaeol. With the. The Abbevillian culture....
3. abri, n. View full entry 1887
...Archaeol. A hollow beneath overhanging rock; a rock shelter....
4. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1919
...Geol. and Archaeol. Of time or chronology: expressed in calendrical years rather than in terms of geological or cultural periods, or relative to an event....
5. aceramic, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1961
...Of a culture, esp. an early Neolithic culture: lacking pottery. Also: of or relating to such a culture. Also occas. as (with the)....
6. Acheulean, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1901
...Of, relating to, or designating an early Palaeolithic period in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India, preceding the Mousterian, and distinguished in particular by the manufacture of stone hand axes. Also...
7. Aegean, adj. and n. View full entry 1890
...Of, associated with, or designating Bronze Age Greek civilization in the Aegean area....
8. agger, n. View full entry a1398
...A heap of stones and earth, an earthwork, mound, or embankment; (Archaeol.) the raised rampart of a Roman camp; the raised part of a Roman road or causeway, with ditches...
9. Ahrensburg, adj. View full entry 1931
...Of, relating to, or designating an early postglacial culture of north Germany and the Low Countries dating to the period around 8500b.c., remains of which were first discovered at...
10. alignment, n. View full entry 1831
...Archaeol. A linear arrangement of three or more standing stones....
11. allée couverte, n. View full entry 1870
...A type of tunnel-shaped Neolithic tomb, typically comprising a long rectangular chamber, found esp. in central and northern France; = gallery gravegallery2....
12. Altithermal, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1948
...Designating a period of the Holocene, between about 7500 and 5500 years ago, when the western United States was relatively warm; of or relating to this period. Also as : this...
13. Anasazi, n. and adj. View full entry 1936
...Archaeol. A member of the Basket Maker people, or of their successors the early Pueblo people, of the uplands of northern Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and Colorado, together considered as...
14. Anasazi, n. and adj. View full entry 1936
...Archaeol. Of, designating, or belonging to the Anasazi or their culture....
15. Anglo-Roman, adj. View full entry 1774
...Ancient Hist. and Archaeol. Of or relating to England (or Britain) as part of the Roman Empire; of or relating to the ancient Romans in Britain....
16. archaeolithic in archaeo-, comb. form View full entry 1865
...of or relating to the most ancient stone implements used by prehistoric man....
17. archaeoastronomy, n. View full entry 1971
...The study of astronomy as it was practised in prehistoric times or is represented by archæological remains....
19. archaeographical, adj. View full entry 1877
...Of or connected with archæography....
20. archaeography, n. View full entry 1804
...Systematic description of antiquities....
