Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (278 page)

A vertical-sided beaker, with horizontal bands of corrugations, cordons, or latticing. Of mid 1st century
ad
date. Some were Gallo-Belgic and others locally made in Britain.
BUTT BEAKER
.

 
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In pottery making, a continuous horizontal groove around the belly of a vessel.

 
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See
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
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Egyptian sacred site and cemetery on the west bank of the Nile opposite modern Cairo. The centre-piece of the site is a group of three pyramids that date from the 4th Dynasty, the mid 3rd millennium
bc
. The most important is that of Cheops which differs from most other pyramids in having a great number of chambers and passages within it. The second pyramid is that of Chephren. The third is that of Mycerinus. Round about these great monuments are the working quarters of those who built them. Nearby is the Great Sphinx guarding the entrance to the Nile Valley.
[Sum.: G. A. Reisner , 1955,
A history of the Giza necropolis
. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press]

 
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Late Archaic cultural grouping found around Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and southern Ontario in the period
c.
1500–1000 bc. Characterized by mortuary rituals which involved interring the dead in natural hills of glacial gravel. Grave goods of copper ornaments and marine shells were sometimes included and attest long-distance trade links.

 
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A bank and ditch, constructed to present an unbroken slope from the crest of the bank to the bottom of the ditch. Such defences were often used by the builders of hillforts in the middle Iron Age period in northern Europe.

 
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