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Ashunasirpal II
[Na].
[Na].
King of Assyria from 883 to 859 bc.
Ashurbanipal
[Na].
[Na].
King of Assyria from 668 to 627 bc.
askos
[Ar].
[Ar].
Asymmetrical pottery vessel, often duck-shaped, with one handle and its mouth off-centre. The form was common in the Aegean Bronze Age from early Helladic times and through into the classical period.
Aspero, Peru
[Si].
[Si].
A Preceramic Stage ceremonial centre on the coastal plain near the mouth of the Rio Supe, dating to
c.
2800 bc. The complex comprises perhaps as many as seventeen platform mounds. Each mound was built in stages, having two or three steps or tiers rising to about 10m above the surrounding ground surface. On the summit was a masonry structure comprising a series of rooms or cells of different sizes, each elaborated with niches and adobe friezes. Dedicatory caches are found within the structures, including feathers, cotton, string and cane objects, clay figurines, wooden bowls, and carved wooden items.
One mound, Huaca de los Idolos, measures 30m by 50m in plan and 10m high. A large settled population must have lived in the Supe Valley round about.
[Sum.: R. A. Feldman , 1987, Architectural evidence for the development of non-egalitarian social systems in coastal Peru. In J. Hass , S. Pozorski , and T. Pozorski (eds.),
The origins and development of the Andean state
. Cambridge: CUP, 9–14]
c.
2800 bc. The complex comprises perhaps as many as seventeen platform mounds. Each mound was built in stages, having two or three steps or tiers rising to about 10m above the surrounding ground surface. On the summit was a masonry structure comprising a series of rooms or cells of different sizes, each elaborated with niches and adobe friezes. Dedicatory caches are found within the structures, including feathers, cotton, string and cane objects, clay figurines, wooden bowls, and carved wooden items.
One mound, Huaca de los Idolos, measures 30m by 50m in plan and 10m high. A large settled population must have lived in the Supe Valley round about.
[Sum.: R. A. Feldman , 1987, Architectural evidence for the development of non-egalitarian social systems in coastal Peru. In J. Hass , S. Pozorski , and T. Pozorski (eds.),
The origins and development of the Andean state
. Cambridge: CUP, 9–14]
assart
[MC].
[MC].
In medieval times an assart was an area of land taken from the waste or forest and cultivated or used to build a smallholding or farm. The process of ‘assarting’ was particularly common in the later 11th and early 12th centuries.
assemblage
[De].
[De].
1
An associated set of contemporary artefacts that can be considered as a single unit for record and analysis.
2
All of the artefacts found at a site, including the sum of all sub-assemblages at the site.
An associated set of contemporary artefacts that can be considered as a single unit for record and analysis.
2
All of the artefacts found at a site, including the sum of all sub-assemblages at the site.
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