Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (688 page)

Now obsolete term used to describe rather poorly defined stone tool assemblages found in southern and eastern Africa that were comparable with material from the site of Stillbay on the Cape coast of South Africa.

 
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Stirling , Matthew Williams
(1896–1975)
[Bi].

American archaeologist who carried out numerous investigations and surveys of Olmec sites in Mesoamerica, including: La Venta, San Lorenzo, Tres Zapotes, and Cerro de las Mesas.
[Obit.:
Anthropology Newsletter
, 16 (1975), 3]

 
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A pottery vase of strange shape, characteristic of the Mycenaean period: the vase is spheroidal with a narrow foot, but gets its name from the double handle. This is somewhat in the shape of a stirrup and rises on either side of a false, narrow, central spout which is, in fact, a support for the horizontal top of the handle. The actual spout is also narrow and is set forward of the flat-arched handle.

 
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A closed globular jar with a hollow loop of clay attached to the body of the vessel at both ends and a tubular spout set into it in a vertical plane. Common to many Peruvian cultures, especially the
CHAVÍN
.

 
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St Joseph, John Kenneth Sinclair
(1912–94)
[Bi].

British archaeologist specializing in the development and application of aerial photography. Born and brought up in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, St Joseph went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge, in 1931 taking a first degree in geology followed by a doctorate awarded in 1937. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow and college lecturer at Selwyn where he later served as dean, librarian, and vice-master. His interest in aerial photography was started by O. G. S.
CRAWFORD
, but it was during his wartime duties in the Ministry of Aircraft Production that he became fully aware of the potential of aerial reconnaissance for academic studies. Soon after the war he began a programme of interdisciplinary flying and photographic recording through borrowed access to RAF training flights, which by the time of his retirement in 1980 had amassed a collection of a third of a million pictures. In 1949 the university appointed him as its first Curator of Aerial Photography. In 1973 he was made Professor of Air Photographic Studies. He was appointed OBE in 1964 and CBE in 1979. St Joseph published many books and papers including
The uses of aerial photography
(1966) and
Roman Britain from the air
(with S. S. Frere , 1983). He also lectured widely, with breathtaking pictures as visual aids, but with an intonation that earned him the nickname ‘Holy Jo’ .
[Obit.:
The Times
, 26 March 1994]

 
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A colonnaded market-hall in an ancient Greek city. Consisting of a long straight colonnade with a vertical wall and sometimes rooms at the back and a roof over. Examples appear from about 650 bc onwards.

 
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