Archaeology Glossary Terms
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Archaeology glossary is a comprehensive guide which provides meanings of popular terminology used in archaeology. It is particularly a valuable source for the people who term themselves as beginners in the field of archaeology.
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optical emission spectrometry (OES)
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a technique used in the analysis of artifact composition based on principle that electrons when excited i.e heated to high temperature release light particular wavelength The presence or absence various elements is established by examining appropriate spectral line their characteristic wavelengths Generally this method gives an accuracy only percent and has been superseded ICPS inductively coupled plasma
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oral history
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Verbally transmitted information about past events Although often providing non-written such is subject to the vagaries of human perceptions and mental recall
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Ordovician
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The second earliest period of the Paleozoic era spanning time between and million years ago It is named after a Celtic tribe called Ordovices
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osteodontokeratic culture
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an archaeological based upon tools made of bone teeth and hoary
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osteology
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the study of bones
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ostracoderms
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Primitive jawless fishes covered by bony armor that lived in the Cambrian through Devonian periods
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ostracum
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fragments as of pottery containing inscriptions The singular is quot ostraca
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Otzi
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Otzi the Iceman (also spelled Oetzi) is the modern nickname of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier of the Otztaler Alps, near the border between Austria and Italy.
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outbuildings
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A term used to refer all nonresidential structures on a site These include animal pens storage buildings sheds barns etc
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outcrops
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A term designating the surface exposure of rock layers which have not been decomposed into soil
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