Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology

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Entry categories
In order to assist with the usage of the entries in this dictionary, all the terms have been classified into a series of main groupings. These are indicated by abbreviations in square brackets set immediately after the word or term and before the definition. The following categories have been used:
[Ab]
Abbreviation
[Ar]
Artefact
[Bi]
Biographical entry
[Co]
Component or feature of a recognized class of monument
[CP]
Cultural phase, period, tradition, or defined grouping
[De]
Descriptive term
[Di]
Deity
[Do]
Document (usually a historical text relevant to archaeological enquiry)
[Eq]
Equipment used in archaeological work
[Ge]
General term
[Le]
Legal term
[Ma]
Material
[MC]
Monument class or category
[Na]
Name of historical or mythical person
[Or]
Organization, association, society, institution, or company
[Sp]
Plant or animal species/genus
[Si]
Site, monument, or area of archaeological importance
[Sl]
Slang
[Te]
Technique commonly used in archaeological work
[Th]
Theoretical perspective, model, or set of principles underpinning archaeological work
Abbreviations
Abio.
Autobiography
AD
anno Domini
BC
Before Christ (expressed in conventional calendar/solar years)
Bio.
Biography
c
.
circa
CoE
Council of Europe
CUP
Cambridge University Press
d.
died
EC
European Commission
EU
European Union
HMSO
Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Not.
Biographical note/review
Obit.
Obituary
OUP
Oxford University Press
pl.
plural
RAF
Royal Air Force
RCHME
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
Rep.
Report on a major excavationor survey of the site/region
Rev.
Review
Sum.
Summary
TV
Television
UK
United Kingdom
USA
United States of America
WW1
World War 1
WW2
World War 2
A

 

AAS
[Ab].
abacus
[Ar].
The uppermost member of a capital, set atop a pillar, and, on classical buildings, in contact with the bottom of the
ENTABLATURE
. The abacus resembles in form the flat slab on which it was modelled.
Abbasids
[CP].
An Arab dynasty descended from Abbas , uncle of Muhammad , who supplanted the Umayyads in ad 750.
Abbeville, France
[Si].
A gravel pit in the 45m gravel terrace of the Somme Valley, France, from which numerous handaxes were obtained by Boucher de Perthes and others from ad 1836 onwards and which in 1939 gave its name to the
ABBEVILLIAN
.
[Sum.: F. Bordes , 1956, Some observations on the Pleistocene succession in the Somme Valley.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
, 22, 1–5]

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