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Early farming communities occupying the north coast of Colombia in the 1st millennium
bc
and early 1st millennium
ad
, named after the type–site of Malambo south of Barranquilla on the Gulf Coast of Colombia. Characterized by pottery with distinctive incised, punctuated, and adorno (appliqué) modelled decoration.

 
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King of Scotland from ad 1016. Born
c.
954, son of Kenneth II. He acceded to Alba 1005, secured Lothian
c.
1016, and obtained Strathclyde for his grandson Duncan
c.
1016, thus forming the kingdom of Scotland. Died in ad 1034 aged
c.
80, having reigned eighteen years.

 
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King of Scotland from ad 1058. Born
c.
1031, elder son of Duncan I, he married (1) Ingibiorg (2) Margaret (St Margaret), granddaughter of Edmund II of England. He was killed in battle in ad 1093 at the age of
c.
62, having reigned 35 years.

 
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King of Scotland from ad 1153. He was born
c.
1141, son of Henry, earl of Huntingdon, second son of David I. He died in ad 1165 aged
c.
24, having reigned twelve years.

 
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Mallowan , Sir Max Edgar Lucien
(1904–78)
[Bi].

British archaeologist well known for his work in the Middle East and one of the last of the ‘old-school’ archaeologists. A graduate of New College, Oxford, his archaeological career began as an assistant to C. L.
WOOLLEY
at Ur in 1925. Following this his career focused on the investigation of sites in northern Mesopotamia including Nineveh, Arpachiyah, Chagar, Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud through the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1933. After wartime service with the RAF he became Director of the British School of Archaeology in Baghdad and also presided over the British Institute of Persian Studies. In 1947 he was appointed to the Chair of Western Asiatic Archaeology in the University of London, a position he held until his death. Knighted in 1968, Sir Max was a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, from 1962 until 1971 and Emeritus Fellow in 1976. In 1930 Mallowan married the writer Agatha Christie who thereafter used the experience of being involved with archaeological fieldwork in her detective stories, as for example in
Murder in Mesopotamia
(1936, London: Fontana) where the victim is modelled on Lady Woolley .
[Abio.: 1976.
Mallowan's Memoirs
. London: Collins]

 
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Upper Palaeolithic open-air site on the Belaya River near Lake Baikal in south-central Siberia. Excavated by M. M. Gerasimonov , G. P. Sosnovsij , and others between 1928–37 and 1956–8. The Upper Palaeolithic level is dated to the beginning of the last glacial maximum around 24000 years ago. There are traces of a dwelling, partly constructed with limestone slabs, and the burial of a child possibly of mongoloid affinities. Associated artefacts include prismatic cores, retouched blades, end scrapers, a number of decorated objects, and human and animal figurines made of bone and ivory. A more recent, Mesolithic, horizon lay under the topsoil on the third terrace.
[Sum.: M. M. Gerasimov , 1964, The Palaeolithic site at Malta. Excavations of 1956–57. In H. N. Michael (ed.),
The archaeology and geomorphology of northern Asia. Selected works
,
vol. 3
, Toronto: Arctic Institute of North America/University of Toronto Press]

 
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