Glossary Entries between Amarna and AnYang
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Anasazi
Anasazi, ancestral Puebloan culture, Eastern and western Anasazi, Chacoan culture, Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon
Amaranth
Amaranth is a grain used in ancient Mesoamerica since very early times for its value as staple food and dye, and by the Aztec for its religious importance.
Amarna (Egypt)
Amarna is the modern name given to the capital city of Akhetaten, the heretic pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty Akhenaten, built about 1350 BC and abandoned at his death 20 years later.
Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE)
Amazonian Dark Earth refers to human-created highly fertile middens used by pre-columbian South American people.
Amber Trade
An exotic lithic material made from the sap from pine trees some 35-40 million years old, amber was (and still is) a highly tradeable item.
American Bottom (USA)
The American Bottom is the name given to the Mississippian culture homeland, a segment of the Mississippi River Valley in Illinois in the central United States
AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) Radiocarbon Dating
AMS radiocarbon dating is a form of radiocarbon dating that is more precise and requires less carbon than conventional radiocarbon methods.
Anasazi Culture
The Anasazi is the name given to the prehistoric agricultural group who occupied the Colorado Plateau in the American southwest
Anatolia
The Anatolia region is one of the cradles of urban civilization, and consists of the peninsula of Asia Minor.
Ancón
Ancón is an archaeological site located on the coast of Peru, about 40 km north of Lima. Based on architecture and archaeological evidence, the site is thought to been a colony of the
Andean Civilizations
The Andean Civilizations is a term used by archaeologists to refer to any of several civilizations of the Andes Mountains
Andronovo Culture
The Andronovo culture is the name given to an Old World sedentary pastoralist society of the Late Bronze Age.
Angkor Civilization
The Angkor Civilization (or Khmer Civilization) is the name given to an important civilization of Cambodia and Thailand
Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
Angkor Wat is a temple complex and capital city of the Angkor (or Khmer) civilization
Anglo-Saxon culture
The Anglo-Saxons were peoples who originated in northern Germany and Scandinavia who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD.
Anthropology Definitions
A collection of definitions of anthropology from a variety of anthropologists.
Anthropology
A definition of anthropology, courtesy of Michael Scullin.
Antioch (Turkey)
Founded by Alexander the Great's general Seleucus around 300 BC, Antioch also was the seat of a Roman governor after 64 BC.
Antonine Wall (UK)
The Antonine Wall marks the northern-most border of the Roman empire in Great Britain.
Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)
Anuradhapura was founded by the Sinhalese king Pandukhabaya as his capital city in 437 BC.
AnYang (China)
AnYang was the capital of the Shang Dynasty in northern Henan province, China, between 1554 and 1045 BC.
L'Anse aux Meadows (Canada)
L'Anse aux Meadows is the name of an archaeological site on the coast of Labrador which is the only commonly accepted evidence for the landing of Norse marauders led by Leif Eiriksson (or Erikson)