Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (231 page)

A
LINEARBANDKERAMIC
village and cemetery beside the River Maas in Limburg, the Netherlands, excavated by P. J. R. Modderman between 1958 and 1966. These extensive excavations revealed more than 80 houses represented in arrangements of postholes, and Modderman organized these into six main phases, each with between eleven and seventeen houses in use at any one time. The associated cemetery is the largest of its kind known, with 113 graves, 40 of which were cremations. Grave goods include pottery drinking cups usually near the head, stone adze blades, flint blades, and in one case a quernstone. The cremation burials generally had fewer grave goods than the inhumations.
[Sum.: P. Modderman , 1975, Elsloo, a Neolithic farming community in the Netherlands. In R. Bruce-Mitford (ed.),
Recent archaeological excavations in Europe
. London: Routledge. 260–87]

 
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A type of
STONE CIRCLE
in which the pillars of the main ring are set within or on top of a low stone or earth bank. Such circles fall into the middle period of Aubrey Burl's three phases in the development of stone circles, broadly 2670–1975 bc.

 
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A humanistic perspective that seeks to widen interpretation to include all dimensions of social existence and experience by rooting any understanding of it in the way that experience is developed through the senses of the body and cognition of the self in intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and affective terms.

 
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Pertaining to the view from within. Developed within the mind of an individual or a culture; meanings developed in terms of native categories.

 
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Arabic word meaning ‘commander’ and used to refer to the virtually independent rulers of conquered territories.

 
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See
WHEAT
.

 
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