Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (352 page)

 
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Provincial late
HALLSTATT CULTURE
of northeastern France, named after the cemetery site at Les Jogasses in the Marne, which itself continued in use into the ensuing early
LA TÈNE
phase of the Marne Culture.

 
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King of Scotland of the House of Balliol from 1292. Born
c.
1250, son of Dervorguilla, great-great-granddaughter of David I, and John de Balliol . Married Isabella , daughter of John, earl of Surrey. Abdicated 1296 and died 1313 aged
c.
63, having reigned three years.

 
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English king of the House of Anjou (Plantagenets) from 1199. Born 1167, fifth son of Henry II. Married (1) Isabella or Avisa , daughter of William, earl of Gloucester (divorced); (2) Isabella , daughter of Aymer , count of Angoulême. Died in 1216 aged 48, having reigned seventeen years.

 
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The earliest postglacial period in Japan, characterized by hunter-gatherer communities, conventionally divided into six main periods between 10000 and 300 bc. The oldest is the Incipient (10000–7500 bc), followed by the Earlier (7500–5000 bc). From the Early Jomon (5000–3500 bc) there are settled villages and an increasing use of marine resources resulting in a well-known series of midden sites. During the Middle Jomon (3500–2500 bc) widespread trading networks develop, and ritual structures become more common. In the Late Jomon (2500–1000 bc) settlement systems collapse in the Chubu and Kanto regions. In the Final Jomon (1000–300 bc) there is increasing development of deep-sea fisheries, the development of rice agriculture by the north Kyushu groups, and the beginning of pottery production.

 
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Icelandic saga, written down
c.
ad 1200, which tells of the foundation of a fortified camp on the southern coast of the Baltic by a Dane from Funen. In the camp, Jómsborg, lives a military elite under strict discipline. The saga owes much to a 12th-century nascent chivalry, but perhaps enshrines the memory of garrison camps like those of Svein Forkbeard in Denmark.

 
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