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PICTI
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FRILLING
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A term sometimes used for a dish with a flat rim, usually in Romano-British
BLACK-BURNISHED WARE
, and often decorated with a lattice pattern on the side and loops on the outside of the base. There is no evidence that it was used as the name suggests.

 
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In metalworking, a clay mould, made of a number of separate pieces fitting together, for casting intricately shaped objects.

 
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Late Archaic Stage hunter-gatherer communities flourishing in northeastern North America in the period 4000–1000 bc. Characterized by distinctive stemmed points.

 
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Piette , Edouard
(1827–1906)
[Bi].

French antiquarian responsible for excavations at Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites in southwest France through the 1880s and 1890s. Excavations at Mas d'Azil in 1887 allowed the definition of the
AZILIAN
culture which bridged the gap between the local Palaeolithic and Mesolithic phases. He proposed subdividing the French Palaeolithic into the Amygdalithic, Niphetic, and Glyptic phases, but the scheme was never widely used. He was also one of the first scholars to support the authenticity and antiquity of the cave art at
ALTAMIRA
.
[Bio.: Anon , 1906,
Edouard Piette: ancien magistrat, officier de l'instruction publique
. Paris]

 
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Practitioner of the Institute of Field Archaeologists. See
INSTITUTE OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGISTS
.