Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (337 page)

An establishment which provided food, drink, stabling and, usually, accommodation for travellers. Inns commonly stand along main highways and in market towns.

 
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Material objects that are not part of the animal or vegetable kingdom.

 
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Term used to describe marks or lines forming a design, motif, image, or pattern of some kind that can been cut into stone, metal, bone, wood, ceramic, or other fairly soft material.

 
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A set of words or pictographic images cut into the surface of a block of stone, ceramic panel, metal plate, or some other kind of durable material in order to record some kind of event or dedication.

 
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The recovery of insect remains from anaerobic and semi-anaerobic deposits can be very revealing about the climate, local environment, and the health and welfare of local populations. The most common find is the hard exterior skeleton of beetles, but other fragments of insects themselves, their eggs and lava can also be recovered. Remains are usually collected by froth
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in the laboratory and studied using comparative reference material. Their preferences and habitats can be modelled by observing modern insect populations.

 
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In its original position.

 
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A fixed pattern of behaviour which has genetic origins and which appears in all normal animals within a given species.

 
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