Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (87 page)

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SPOTTED DOLERITE
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Boas , Franz
(1858–1942)
[Bi].

American anthropologist who worked at the American Museum of Natural History and later at Columbia University. He advocated detailed regional studies based on empirical research rather than a preoccupation with grand evolutionary schemes. This school of anthropology became known as ‘historical particularism’.
[Bio.:
American National Biography
, 3, 83–6]

 
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A subgroup within the Nordic
SINGLE GRAVE CULTURE
characterized by the use of a slender type of stone
BATTLE-AXE
shaped like an up-turned boat.

 
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See
SHIP BURIAL
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Local Hungarian culture of the middle Copper Age (early 3rd millennium
bc
) that succeeded the Tiszapolgar Culture. There is marked continuity between the two cultures in their settlements and cemeteries. Cattle played an important role in the domestic economy. Copper tools of the period include shaft-hole axe-adzes, chisels, and awls. Plain wares predominate in funerary deposits in contrast to domestic sites, which yield pottery decorated in ‘stab-and-drag’ (
Furchenstich
) technique, with chequerboard and hatched patterns filled with white paste. Succeeded by the
BADEN CULTURE
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King of the
DOBUNNI
tribe in the west of England in the early 1st century
bc
, known from inscriptions on coins minted at Bagendon, Gloucestershire.

 
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