Glossary: B Terms
Boardwalk Site, British Columbia
The Boardwalk site is an ancient cemetery in British Columbia with early evidence for social ranking
Bottle Gourd
The bottle gourd was probably domesticated in Asia, some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago
Bodo Cranium (Ethiopia)
The Bodo Cranium is a nearly complete hominin skull recovered from a site in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia.
Bog Bodies
The term bog bodies is used to refer to human burials, some likely sacrificed, recovered from peat bogs of Denmark, Germany, Holland, Britain, and Ireland.
Boghazkoy (Turkey)
Boghazkoy is the site of a major Hittite capital called Hattusas, in what is now Turkey, some 100 kilometers from the Black Sea and 150 miles from Ankara.
Bolomor Cave (Spain)
Bolomor Cave is a karst rockshelter, which is located near the Mediterranean coast in Valencia, Spain, and has a long stratified history of use by Neanderthals during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods.
Bonampak
Bonampak is a classic Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico, famous for the extraordinary mural paintings that completely cover the walls of one of its buildings.
Boomplaas Cave (South Africa)
Boomplaas Cave (Tree Farm Cave) is located in the Swartberg Range of South Africa, near the southern most tip of the continent.
Border Cave (South Africa)
Border Cave is a rockshelter in the Lembombo Mountains between South Africa and Swaziland, in Kwazulu Natal of South Africa.
Bordesley Abbey (UK)
Bordesley Abbey is a Cistercian Medieval monastery complex, built in the 12th century AD in Warwickshire, England.
Bosutswe (Botswana)
Bosutswe is the name of a deeply stratified Toutswe culture site, located on the Motloutse river (tributary to the Zambezi River) at the eastern edge of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.
Bourbon Excavations
In 1738, Charles of Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies and founder of the House of Bourbon, hired antiquarian Marcello Venuti to work at the sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Bouri (Ethiopia)
The paleontological region called Bouri is located within the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia and contains evidence of hominid occupation between 2.5 and 160,000 years ago.
Box Gully (Australia)
Box Gully is the name of a very old archaeological site located on Lake Tyrell, southern Victoria, Australia.
Boxgrove (UK)
The Boxgrove site is a Middle Stone Age site located in a stone quarry in West Sussex England.
Boylston Street Fish Weir (USA)
The Boylston Street Fish Weir is a Late Archaic fish trap located within the town of Boston, Massachusetts.
Boyne Valley (Ireland)
The Boyne Valley in Ireland, called 'Brugh na Bóinne'in Gaelic, is an important region in Europe.
Breadnut Tree
Brosimum alicastrum, asli known as breadnut tree or ramon tree was an important and widespread plant in ancient Maya forest.
Brandwijk-Kerkhof (the Netherlands)
Brandwijk-Kerkhof is an open-air archaeological site located on a river dune in the wetlands near the Dutch Rhine/Mass river in the extreme southeastern part of the Netherlands, associated with Linear Band Keramic and Swifterbant cultures.
Briquetage
Briquetage is essentially a refuse midden, created as a by product of the production of salt, and found world wide beginning at least 4500 years ago.
Brickell Site (USA)
The Miami Circle, also called Brickell Point or the Brickell Site, is a hotly debated archaeological site in downtown Miami, on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
Broad Spectrum Revolution
The Broad Spectrum Revolution (sometimes abbreviated BSR) refers to a proposed subsistence shift at the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 to 8,000 years ago.
Los Buchillones Site, Cuba
Los Buchillones is a waterlogged Taino settlement located in northern Cuba.
Bromme Culture
The Bromme culture is the name given to an early prehistoric reindeer-hunting culture of Scandinavia
Domestication of Broomcorn
Broomcorn or broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) is today primarily considered a weed suitable for bird seed; but it was one of the earliest domesticated crops in China and the world
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a fairly arbitrary technological stage invented as part of a three-part system (Stone, Bronze, and Iron)
Broxmouth (UK)
Broxmouth is the name of an archaeological site excavated in the 1970s, representing an Iron Age hillfort 600 meters from the North Sea coast of Scotland
Butrint: City of Mosaics - the Architectural Gem of Butrint
The World Heritage site of Butrint, located in southwest Albania on the Mediterranean Sea, is a unique blend of Greek and Roman and Byzantine and Venetian architecture, a result of its long and checkered history.
Brook Run
In the piedmont region of northern Virginia, in a grove of cedar trees near the Rapidan River, lies important evidence of rock quarrying by some of the earliest human residents of the region.
Budakalász (Hungary)
The archaeological site of Budakalász is a Baden culture (Bell Beaker, 3500-3000 BC) occupation and cemetery
Building J at Monte Alban (Mexico)
The mysteriously-shaped Building J at the Zapotec site of Monte Albán in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, has been thought to have been built for astronomical and ritual purposes
Burgwall culture
"Burgwall" translates to "castle wall or barrier" in German, and the term refers to the medieval slavic culture of central Europe of the 11th century AD.
Byzozova (Russia)
Byzozova is the name of an upper Paleolithic site located near the Arctic circle in Russia.
Burials and Graves in Archaeology
Archaeological research into death includes mortuary behaviors, grave goods, cemetery plans, mortality, morbidity, and diet and health.
Burzahom (India)
The site of Burzahom is a Neolithic settlement and cemetery in the Kashmir state of India, occupied between about 3000-1500 BC.
Burnum (Croatia)
The site of Burnum is an important Roman Empire site in the Sibenik-Knin district of central Croati
Bushmen
The Bushmen is a collective term for a modern cultural group in subsaharan Africa, primarily the Kalahari Desert.
Tell Brak (Syria)
Tell Brak was a Mesopotamian center on a transportation route connecting the Tigris river valley north to Anatolia, the Euphrates and the Mediterranean Sea.
Byzantium (Turkey)
Byzantium is the name of the state, culture and capital city of the eastern Roman empire, which outlived the Roman empire, from Roman times through the 15th century AD.
El Brujo Complex (Peru)
El Brujo is the name of a Moche culture complex, and a major religious center of the Moche between the first and seventh centuries AD.