Glossary Entries between Sa Huynh and Saxons

Sa Huynh Culture
The Sa Huynh Culture is the name given to an urnfield (jar burials) culture on the coastal plains of central and south Vietnam

Saffron (Crocus sativus)
The crazy expensive spice saffron has been used for its vivid color, aroma and flavor since its domestication some four thousand years ago.

Saar (Bahrain)
Saar as an Early Dilmun village on the island of Bahrain where excavations in the 1990s have given us a glimpse of mideastern lifeways during the reign of Mesopotamia.

Sago Palm - Metroxylon sagu Rottboell
The sago palm (Metroxylon sagu) is believed to have been domesticated in Papua New Guinea perhaps 1500-1700 years ago.

Saint Denis, Basilica of (France)
The Basilique de St-Denis is the most recent structure of several churches built on the top of a Gallo-Roman cemetery where St. Denis is said to have been buried.

Saint-Blaise (Switzerland)
The archaeological site of Saint-Blaise is a late Neolithic lake dwelling in the Neuenburgersees Canton of Switzerland.

Salt in Ancient Mesoamerica
Salt was an important product in Ancient Mesoamerica used as condiment, food preservative and dye mordant.

Saladoid Culture
The Saladoid culture is the name given to immigrants from South American who moved into the Caribbean region about the 4th century BC.

Salawusu (China)
The Salawusu site is an early Homo sapiens site located in Ordos, Neimenggu (Inner Mongolia), China.

Samarra (Iraq)
The modern city of Samarra is located on the Tigris River; its earliest urban occupation dates to the Abbasid period.

Salvage Archaeology
Salvage archaeology, also known as Cultural Resource Management or CRM archaeology, is generally state or federally funded archaeological research, completed because a particular parcel of privately owned property is to be purchased by the state for use in a road, bridge, or other public works project.

Sambor Prei Kuk (Cambodia)
The Hindu temple complex of Sambor Prei Kuk was established in the early 6th century AD at the city of Isanapura.

Samnite Culture
The Samnite culture is one of several ethnic groups in the Roman empire, originating from the Samnium region, roughly encompassing the Sangro Valley region of the Abruzzo in Italy.

San Blas (Mexico)
The destroyed Late Archaic archaeological site of San Blas, Mexico was located near the town of the same name in Nayarit.

San Agustin (Colombia)
The San Agustin archaeological park in Colombia includes a wide variety of stone sculptures carved between AD 100 and 1200.

San Lorenzo (Mexico)
The archaeological site of San Lorenzo is the royal center of the larger San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan Olmec period site located in the state of Veracruz, Mexico

San Dieguito-Pinto Culture
The San Dieguito-Pinto Culture is the name given to a collection of early Archaic occupation sites located in the American Southwest and southern California.

San Jacinto 1 (Colombia)
The San Jacinto 1 archaeological site is in the Lower Magdalena valley of Colombia, and consists of a deeply buried sedentary fishing village dated between 6000 and 5700 years ago.

San Pedro de Atacama
The archaeological site of San Pedro de Atacama is a Tiwanaku empire outpost, located in a desert oasis some 800 kilometers from the capital of the Tiwanuku empire

San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán is the name of a polity capital of the Olmec civilization, located in the Coatzacoalcos floodplain in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.

Sandhavn (Greenland)
Sandhavn, an Atlantic trading bay on the southern shore of Greenland, was shared by both the Inuit and Norse.

Sandia Cave (US)
The archaeological site of Sandia Cave, located in the American state of New Mexico, is one of those sites that archaeologists and politics have clashed so strenuously that we'll probably never really know what's going on with it.

Sannai Maruyama
Sannai Maruyama is an large Early to Middle Jomon period settlement in Aomori prefecture of northeastern Japan.

Sanghao Cave (Pakistan)
Sanghao Cave is a rockshelter located on the Potwar Plateau of Pakistan with an Upper Paleolithic component.

Sangiran (Indonesia)
The Sangiran cave site, located on the island of Java, is a Homo erectus site excavated by R.G.H. von Koenigswald in 1936-1941.

Sant' Angelo Muxaro (Italy)
The Iron Age site of Sant'Angelo Muxaro is in the Agrigento region of Sicily and was a Greek colony, although there is also an Iron Age component.

Sanskrit
The Sanskrit language is one of the oldest written languages in the world.

Santa Luisa (Mexico)
The archaeological site of Santa Luisa is a multicomponent site located east of El Tajin in the state of Vera Cruz

Santa Elena (USA)
Santa Elena was a Spanish colony in South Carolina, established in 1566, the year after the military post of Saint Augustine

Sanxingdui (China)
The archaeological site of Sanxingdui, China is a Bronze Age site (circa 2800 to 800 B.C.) located in the town of Guanghan of Sichuan Province, and part of the Shu state.

Sarup (Denmark)
The site of Sarup in southwest Funen in Denmark contains two Neolithic causewayed enclosures dated to the 3rd millennium BC, one belonging to the Funnel Beaker culture and one to the Klintebakke phase.

Saqqara Plateau (Egypt)
The Saqqara plateau is a flat desert landform close to the modern town of Saqqara, Egypt, used by Egyptian pharaohs since the 2nd Dynasty.

Sardis (Turkey)
The archaeological site of Sardis was the capital of a dynasty in Asia Minor, according to Herodotus, beginning during the 12th century BC.

St. Albans (UK)
The site of St. Albans began as an Iron Age settlement called Verlamion around the end of the first century BC.

Save the Past for the Future
The archaeological movement in the Americas to engage the public in information about scientific research in order to support the preservation of archaeological sites got a huge boost in 1988, when a conference supported by the Society for American Archaeology entitled Save the Past for the Future was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Savi
Savi (also spelled Xavier, Sabi or Sabbee) was the capital city of the Hueda kingdom, located on the Atlantic coast of Africa near the town of Ouidah in what is today Benin.

Saxons (Anglo-Saxons)
The Anglo-Saxons were peoples who originated in northern Germany and Scandinavia, and who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD.

St. Catherine's Monastery (Egypt)
St. Catherine's Monastery is a Byzantine church built between 548 and 565 AD at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt.

St. Augustine (USA)
The Spanish colonial town of St. Augustine, Florida, was established in 1565 as a military outpost to protect Spanish interests in the New World.

St. Paul's Cathedral (UK)
St. Paul's Cathedral, designed by architect Christopher Wren and built between 1675 and 1701, is the fourth church on this site overlooking London.

St. Peter's Basilica (Italy)
The ancient basilica of Old St. Peter's in what is today Vatican City was one of the earliest churches built by the Emperor Constantine during the early christian period in the 4th century AD.

St. Priscilla's Catacombs (Italy)
Priscilla's catacombs on the Via Salaria, in the city of Rome, is a subterranean burial structure that contains examples of early Christian art dated to the 2nd and 3rd century AD.

Saint-Césaire
The archaeological site of Saint-Cesaire has Middle and Upper Paleolithic occupations that are associated with Neanderthals.

Santa Isabel Iztapan (Mexico)
Santa Isabel Iztapan: a Paleoindian Kill-Site in Central Mexico