Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (581 page)

 
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Fifth main phase of activity in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico, dating to the period 2300–1500 bc. Poorly represented archaeologically, although this is the time when pottery first appears.

 
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Openings left in a wall for the insertion of scaffolding.

 
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Putnam , Fredrick Ward
(1839–1915)
[Bi].

Distinguished American archaeologist, sometimes known as the ‘father of American archaeology’. Born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, Putnam was privately educated. After pursuing various interests in natural history he became, in 1868, Director of the Peabody Academy of Sciences in Salem. Here he remained until taking the post of curator of the Peabody Museum from 1875 to 1909. During this time he also became Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University from 1887 to 1909. Under Putnam, the Peabody Museum became a leading centre for research into early man in America. His main interests lay in two areas: the mounds of the Ohio Valley and the study of early man, and he carried out excavations at Madisonville and the Great Serpent Mound, both in Ohio.
[Bio.: A. M. Tozzer , 1935, Fredrick Ward Putnam .
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs
, 16.4]

 
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A florid style of architecture prevalent in, and named after, the Puuc region in the north-central Maya area of Mexico. Puuc buildings have facings of thin squares of limestone veneer over a cement and rubble core. Key features include boot-shaped vault stones, decorated cornices, round columns in doorways, engaged or half-columns in long rows, and the use of stone mosaics on the upper façades of buildings. Uxmal has one of the best collections of Puuc architecture.

 
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A type of ceramic jug or pitcher from the 15th and 16th centuries
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in Europe, which is pierced in several places and is supposed to provide a challenge for the user in terms of which hole the contents will flow out of.

 
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