Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (95 page)

Conglomerate of rock and detritus consolidated by carbonate of lime into a hard bed. Often encountered in cave systems sealing earlier deposits.

 
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A type of well-made
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
, highly symmetrical in form, with graceful slightly concave or convex sides and flared barbs. The tang is the same length as the barbs. Characteristic of the early Bronze Age in northern France and southern Britain.

 
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See
ARMORICO-BRITISH DAGGER
.

 
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Breuil , Abbé Henri
(1877–1961)
[Bi].

French Catholic priest and antiquarian who specialized in the Upper Palaeolithic of northern Europe. Ordained as a priest in 1900, he never took up parish duties, as he was allowed to spend his time doing archaeology. A fine draughtsman, he devoted great energy to recording cave paintings and rock art. He worked out a sequence of four distinctive art styles and related these to ideas of sympathetic magic whereby the paintings represented an attempt to ensure success during hunting. He visited many European countries, including England, Romania, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. He worked in North Africa, visited China twice, studied rock art in Ethiopia, and spent the period 1942–5 in South Africa collecting flint tools and studying rock art.
[Bio.: A. H. Brodwick , 1963,
The Abbé Breuil, prehistorian. A biography
. London: Hutchinson]

 
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A kind of building material consisting of a block of dried or baked clay, often with some kind of tempering agent such as stone, sand, or straw. There are many different shapes, sizes, and styles of bricks, and most are culturally or chronologically distinctive.

 
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A technique of sculpture in which subjects are left in bas-relief on a brick-built surface or wall.

 
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