Archaeology Glossary Entries from Appenine Culture through Assyria

Appenine Culture
The Appenine culture is the name given to an Early Bronze Age culture in Italy, between about 1350-1150 BC.

Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)
Anuradhapura an ancient trade capital located on the modern island country of Sri Lanka, founded in the 4th century BC, and active for 1500 years.

Aqaba (Jordan)
The site of Aqaba is a medieval Islamic town in Jordan originally called Ayla and occupied from the Chalcolithic period through Roman times.

Apulian Culture
The Apulian culture was an Iron and Bronze Age Greek colony in the boot heel region of southern Italy during the fifth century BC.

Aramaean Culture
The Aramaeans were a loose confederation of kingdoms including the people of the Aram region of Syria

Arawakan Culture
The Arawaks are a modern Native American tribe of the Peruvian Amazon in South America.

Aramis (Ethiopia)
Aramis is the name of an archaeological site located in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia.

Archaeoastronomy
Archaeoastronomy is the the study of ancient methods and reasons for studying the stars and planets

Archaeology
Archaeology is the study of the human past, including everything from yesterday's garbage trip to the landfill to the impressions of footprints in the mud at Laetoli.

Archaeomagnetic Dating
Archaeomagnetic dating is a method of assigning a date to a fireplace or burned earth area using the earth's magnetic field.

Archaeometry
Archaeometry is the term given by archaeologists to the application of scientific methods from the physical sciences and engineering to archaeology problems.

Arbon Bleiche 3 (Switzerland)
Arbon Bleiche is what archaeologists call a lake or pile dwelling, located on the shores of Lake Constance, Switzerland.

Arene Candide (Italy)
The site of Arene Candide is a large cave located on the Ligurian coast of Italy near Savona, in which the richly appointed grave of an Upper Paleolithic young man was discovered.

Areni 1 (Armenia)
Areni 1 is a cave in southwestern Armenia where evidence of early shoe construction and wine making have been identified.

Archeology
Archeology is an alternative spelling for Archaeology. Both spellngs are accepted by most scholars today, although the impeccably stodgy Oxford English Directory insists on the 'ae' form.

Areitos
Areitos were ancient ceremonies of the Caribbean, performed within open spaces in Taino villages throughout the Caribbean.

Argos (Greece)
The ancient site of Argos is an Early to Middle Helladic settlement and one of the most important Mycenaean city-states of the Peloponnese

Arikamedu (India)
Arikamedu was a Roman trade center on the southeast coast of India, near the modern town of Pondicherry.

Arlington Springs (USA)
The Arlington Springs site is located on an island in the North Channel Islands off the coast of southern California in the western United States.

Artifact
An artifact (spelled artefact, if you're in the Old World) is an object or remainder of an object, which was created, adapted, or used by human agency.

Arrowhead
An arrowhead is the word used by archaeologists and enthusiasts alike to mean the sharp tip of an arrow, whether made of stone, bone, metal or other material.

Asklepios (Greece)
The archaeological site of Asklepios is a Corinthian sanctuary at Epidauros and the center of an early cult of health and healing.

Asmar (Iraq)
The archaeological site of Asmar is located in the city in modern day Iraq.

Assemblage
Archaeologists use the word 'assemblage' to refer to the collection of artifacts recovered from a single site.

Assyria
Assyria was an ancient civilization located in Asia during the 14th-7th century BC.

L'Arbreda Cave (Spain)
L'Arbreda Cave is a rockshelter in in the Catalonian region of Spain, with evidence of continuous, uninterrupted occupation of Neanderthal, and then abruptly by modern humans, around 40,000 BP.

Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard (Iraq)
The Tell Asmar sculpture hoard is a collection of 12 alabaster statues, discovered beneath the floor of the Square Temple at the Mesopotamian site of Tell Asmar (Iraq)

Anangula Site
The Anangula site contains evidence of the earliest human presence in Alaska, Aleutians Islands