Glossary: G Terms
Gallagh Man (Ireland)
Gallagh Man is the name given to an Iron Age (ca 470 and 120 B.C.) bog body recovered from a peat bog in Castleblakeney, County Galway.
Gamla Uppsala (Sweden)
The modern town of Uppsala about 45 miles northwest of Stockholm, Sweden, and adjacent to it is a Viking period site called Gamla.
Gao (Mali)
The west African kingdom of Gao (or Kawkaw) was established by the 8th century AD, and involved in active trade throughout northern Africa; it's major city became the capital of the Songhai empire in 15th century.
Gardar (Greenland)
Gardar - Viking Estate in the Eastern Settlement of Greenland
Garum
Garum is the name of a fish sauce, very popular in the Roman Empire cuisines and an important manufacturing and trade item throughout the Mediterranean.
Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada
Gatecliff Shelter is the name of an Archaeological site in Mill Canyon of the Toquima Range, Monitor Valley of Nevada, in the southwestern US.
Gault Site (Texas, US)
The Gault site is a Clovis period site located in central Texas, discovered in the early 21st century.
Gebel Manzal el-Seyl (Egypt)
Gebel Manzal el-Seyl is a mine site in Egypt's eastern desert, where stone for vessels was quarried during the first few dynasties of the Old Kingdom.
Geofact
A 'geofact' is a piece of rock that has been naturally broken, as opposed to one that was broken by human agency. The word is what linguists call a 'back formation' from the word artifact, of course; artifacts are products of human behaviors, while geofacts are products of natural forces.
Geoglyphs
A geoglyph is a work of rock art that was made from moving or arranging stones on a landscape.
Geophysical Prospection
Geophysical Prospection, also called remote sensing, is any method of several of seeing what is beneath the surface of the ground, without actually disturbing the ground.
Geophysical Survey
Geophysical survey can refer to any systematic collection of geophysical data for spatial studies.
Gerasa (Jordan)
The ancient town of Gerasa or Jerash, located 48 kilometers north of the Jordanian capital of Amman, is one of the best preserved Roman towns in the world.
Ginsy (Ukraine)
The Ginsy Site is an Upper Paleolithic site located on the Dneiper River of Ukraine, with a mammoth bone dwelling.
Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (Israel)
Gesher Benot Yaaqov is a Lower Paleolithic site located in the northern Jordan valley of Israel.
Geißenklösterle (Germany)
Geißenklösterle, or Geissenklosterle, in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany, is an important Aurignacian site with some of the earliest examples of musical instruments and sculptured ivory.
Glenrose Cannery Site, British Columbia
Glenrose Cannery is an important and threatened site of prehistoric British Columbia and Archaic Northwest Coast.
Göbekli Tepe
Gobekli Tepe is a 11,600 year old shrine shared by several Pre-Pottery Neolithic communities in the Fertile Crescemt
Giza Pyramids (Egypt)
The Pyramids of Giza consist of three Old Kingdom burial structures and the Sphinx, all built during the 4th dynasty of ancient Egypt.
Gondar (Ethiopia)
The city of Gondar, Ethiopia, dated to the 17th century AD, was part of the Abyssian empire
Gona (Ethiopia)
At 2.6 million years old, the Lower Paleolithic site called Gona or Kada Gona in Ethiopia is the earliest site yet to contain evidence of chipped stone tool making.
Gontsy (Ukraine)
Gontsy is the name of a mammoth bone dwelling settlement located in the Dnepr valley region of Ukraine, dated to the Late Upper Paleolithic site.
Gran Coclé Chiefdoms of Central Panama
Gran Cocle refers to the region of central Panama, where during the 3rd through 16th centuries AD flourished several chiefdoms with access to gold and lots of it.
Gordion (Turkey)
The archaeological site of Gordion is located in central Turkey, about 100 kilometers west of the modern town of Ankara.
Gran Dolina (Spain)
Gran Dolina is a cave site in the Sierra de Atapuerca region of central Spain, with human occupations dated between 300,000 and 880,000 years ago.
Goths
The Goths were a loosely organized tribe from Scandinavia who were fond of wandering and somehow destroyed the Roman empire around 350 AD.
Ground Hog Bay Site, Alaska
Ground Hog Bay is one of the earliest human occupations in Alaska, ca 12,000 years ago.
Gressbakken House
Gressbakken houses are a type of dwelling built by maritime hunter-gathers on the arctic coasts of Norway and Russia.
Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (France)
The site of Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure holds a controversial piece of the puzzle to understanding the relationships between Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans at the Middle and Upper Paleolithic transition.
Grauballe Man (Denmark)
The Grauballe Man is the name of an Iron Age bog body recovered in 1952 from a peat bog in central Jutland, Denmark.
Great Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Great Zimbabwe is a large African Iron Age site, and a powerful force in central Africa dated between the 10th and 15th centuries AD.
Great Wall of China
While not really visible from outer space, the Great Wall of China is still an amazing feat of architecture.
Grottes des Pigeons (Morocco)
The Grottes des Pigeons is a rockshelter located in eastern Morocco, and it includes the earliest example of symbolic art--perforated beads--known yet to humans.
Great Rift Valley
The Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa and Asia is an enormous geological split in the crust of the earth.
Guilá Naquitz (Mexico)
Guilá Naquitz is a small cave located within the eastern range of mountains in the Valley of Oaxaca.
Ground Penetrating Radar
Ground penetrating radar (abbreviated GPR) is a remote sensing technique that uses the continuous transmission of high frequency electronic signals
Guanacaste (Nicoya Polychrome)
Guanacaste or Nicoya Polychrome is the name given to the Early Post Classic period in Costa Rica and Guatemala.
Guinea Pigs
Guinea pigs, also known as cavies, are small, downright adorable rodents who were domesticated as a reliable food source about 7,000 years ago in South American Andes mountains, and imported into Europe shortly after the Spanish conquest.
Guitarrero Cave (Peru)
Located near Yungay, Peru, Guitarrero Cave contains evidence of human occupations beginning at least 10,000 years ago, and perhaps as early as 12,500 years ago.
La Garma A (Spain)
La Garma A is the name of part of an extensive cave system located within the Monte de la Garma hill in the Cantabrian region of northern Spain.
Guanacaste-Nicoya Culture Timeline
The Guanacaste-Nicoya Culture Timeline describes the development of the pre-columbian Guanacaste and Nicoya region of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.