potsherd
81ostracon — /os treuh kon /, n., pl. ostraca / keuh/. (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, esp. one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed. Also, ostrakon. [1880 85; < Gk óstrakon; see OSTRACIZE] * * * ▪ archaeological …
82Skara Brae — /skar euh bray / the site of an excavated Neolithic village on Pomona in the Orkney Islands, dating from c2000 B.C. * * * or Skerrabra Late Neolithic village on the shore of the Bay of Skaill in Scotland s Orkney Islands. Skara Brae was built с… …
83Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… …
84Albright, W.F. — ▪ American biblical archaeologist in full William Foxwell Albright born May 24, 1891, Coquimbo, Chile died Sept. 19, 1971, Baltimore, Md., U.S. American biblical archaeologist and Middle Eastern scholar, noted especially for his… …
85Native American music — Introduction music of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The Americas contain hundreds of native communities, each with its own distinctive history, language, and musical culture. These communities although united in placing… …
86Southern Africa — Introduction southernmost region of the African continent, comprising the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The island nation of Madagascar is excluded… …
87Christian Ostraka — Christian Ostraka † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christian Ostraka Inscriptions on clay, wood, metal, and other hard materials. Like papyri, they are valuable especially as the literary sources for early Christianity. They are found… …
88shard — 1. noun /ʃaːd,ʃɑːd,ʃɑɹd/ a) A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. The planet was still bound to the jewels magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondains castle. For, within each shattered… …
89Dosariyah — Saudi Arabia …
90Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings — The majority of the 65 numbered tombs in the Valley of the Kings can be considered as being minor tombs, either because at present they have yielded little information or because the results of their investigation was only poorly recorded by… …
