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Ornament designed to be worn, frequently around the neck, on a strap or chain.

 
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Pendlebury , John Devitt Stringfellow
(1904–41)
[Bi].

British archaeologist specializing in the prehistory of Egypt and the Aegean. Born in London he was educated at Winchester and Pembroke College, Cambridge, displaying an interest in Egyptology from an early age. In 1927 he became a student at the British School in Athens and the following year married fellow student Hilda White . In the late 1920s he excavated at Tell-el-Amarna, Egypt, and from 1928 to 1934 was curator at Knossos for the British School in Athens. During this time he excavated the post-Minoan refuge city of Karphi in eastern Crete. His best-known book,
The archaeology of Crete
, was published in 1939. In 1940 he was appointed as an extra British vice-consul in Crete. When Greece came into WW2 he was given the rank of captain and liaison officer to the British Military Mission in Crete with the task of preparing for guerrilla warfare in the event of the island being invaded. He was killed during the German invasion of Crete in May 1941.
[Obit.:
Annual of the British School in Athens
, 41 (1946), 5–8]

 
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Pengelly , William
(1812–94)
[Bi].

English schoolteacher and amateur geologist who excavated at Kent's Cavern, Devon , in the 1840s and 1850s, and at Windmill Hill Cave, Brixham, Devon, in 1858–9. Both excavations confirmed the association of early stone tools with the bones of extinct animals below layers of naturally formed stalagmite, and thus played a critical role in establishing the antiquity of man.
[Bio.:
Dictionary of National Biography
, 15, 739–40]

 
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Type of late Upper Palaeolithic flint tool found in northwest Europe. Made on fairly broad blades, these tools are characterized by a straight unworked edge along one side, a curved distal end, and a lightly retouched edge parallel to the unworked side.

 
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Named from its source on the mountains bordering the Attic plain in Greece. Eminently suitable for fine buildings both in ancient and modern times. All the finer Athenian buildings of Pericles are made of Pentelic marble, the particles of iron in it giving the famous golden tinge of colour.

 
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SEA PEOPLES
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