Archaeology Glossary Entries from Appenine Culture through Assyria

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Archaic period is the name given to generalized hunter-gatherer societies in the North American continent from approximately 8000 to 2000 years BP.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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)

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