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titulum
[Co].

Short detached stretch of rampart (and ditch) protecting the gateway of a marching camp. Outlying length of bank and ditch blocking direct approach to the gate of a camp or fort.

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Titus
[Na].

Roman emperor, ad 79–81.

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Tivacundo Phase
[CP].

South American farming cultures found in the Rio Pastaza and Rio Napo areas of Amazonia and tentatively dated to
c.
ad 500–700. Characterized by their ceramic assemblages which belong to the Polychrome Horizon Style of Amazonia.

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tjaele
[Ge].

Also called permafrost. Conditions by which subsoil is permanently frozen under periglacial conditions.

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Tlaloc
[Di].

Mesoamerican god of water and rain. Typically represented as goggle-eyed with a scroll-edged mouth and often, but not always, wearing some kind of flat rectangular head-gear.

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tlatoque
[De].

Aztec ruler or petty king of a city-state. The tlatoque claimed descent from Quetzalcóatl through the Toltecs and thus believed in a divine right to rule.

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TL dating
[Ab].

See
THERMOLUMINESCENCE DATING
.

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