Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (28 page)

Andrai , Walter
(1875–1956)
[Bi].

German archaeologist and prehistorian who undertook large-scale excavations at the city of Assur, Iraq, between 1903 and 1914.
[Not.: G. Daniel , 1950,
One hundred years of Archaeology
. London, Duckworth, 199–200]

 
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Bronze Age communities living in western Siberia, Russia, and adjacent parts of Kazakhstan in the period 1500–800 bc , which were closely involved with the exploitation of copper ores in the Altai Mountains. Named after the settlement site of Andronovo in Siberia, typical villages of the culture consist of up to ten large semi-subterranean houses of log-cabin-type construction, each anything up to 30m by 60m in extent. Burials were made either in stone cists or stone enclosures with underground timber chambers. The Andronovo Culture was succeeded by the
KARASUK CULTURE
.

 
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A Germanic people who originated on the Baltic coastlands of Jutland.

 
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A group of deposits representing a geostratigraphic stage within the
PLEISTOCENE
series of the British
QUATERNARY
system, mainly found in East Anglia and dating to between 450000 and 300000 years ago. The Anglian Stage is generally seen as a full glacial phase, the deposits stratigraphically overlying
CROMERIAN INTERGLACIAL
material and below
HOXNIAN
interglacial deposits. Formerly known as the Lowestoft glaciation. The Alpine equivalent is the
MINDEL
, the North American equivalent the Kansas. The Anglian is perhaps equated to the Elster glacial maximum in Europe.

 
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1
General term used to refer to cultural traditions, especially architectural styles, current in England in the period after the Norman conquest, broadly 1066 to 1200. During this time Norman and Romanesque designs were being applied by English buildings in the construction of churches, palaces, and castles.
2
In Ireland the Anglo-Normans were the invaders who arrived in Ireland in ad 1176 at the instigation of Dermot Mac Murrough .

 
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A principal source for Anglo-Saxon history, compiled from a series of annals between
c.
ad 871 and ad 890 during the reign of Alfred the Great. Some manuscripts were augmented by further annals which give variant and near contemporary accounts of 10th- to 12th-century history. The annals were probably composed in major monasteries including Abingdon, Canterbury, Peterborough, Winchester, and Worcester.

 
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