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Yorkshire vase food vessel
[Ar].
[Ar].
Distinctive early Bronze Age ceramic vessel found mainly in eastern England in association with inhumation burials. Characterized by coarse fabrics made into thick-walled vessels with flat bases, decoration on the shoulder and rim, and often with perforated lugs. Dates for this style of pottery centre on the period 1800–1400 bc.
York ware
[Ar].
[Ar].
Style of wheel-thrown late Saxon pottery current in the period ad 850–1150, one of a series of regional industries of the period making cooking pots, jars, pitchers, flagons, bottles, jugs, bowls, and dishes. York ware is distinctive hard wheel-thrown quartz-gritted fabric, light red to brown or grey in colour.
Younger Dryas Phase
[Ge].
[Ge].
A biostratigraphic subdivision of the late
DEVENSIAN STAGE
in which sub-Arctic conditions prevailed; the most recent of three subdivisions of the North Atlantic cold-climatic phase known as the
DRYAS
. Godwin's
POLLEN ZONE
III corresponds with the Younger Dryas in Britain, marked by the development of tundra and park tundra. The Younger Dryas spans the period from
c.
9000 bc down to
c.
8000 bc in northern Europe.
DEVENSIAN STAGE
in which sub-Arctic conditions prevailed; the most recent of three subdivisions of the North Atlantic cold-climatic phase known as the
DRYAS
. Godwin's
POLLEN ZONE
III corresponds with the Younger Dryas in Britain, marked by the development of tundra and park tundra. The Younger Dryas spans the period from
c.
9000 bc down to
c.
8000 bc in northern Europe.
Yubetsu
[CP].
[CP].
A late Palaeolithic tradition of obsidian working in Japan dating from
c.
11000 bc; also known as the Shirataki technique after the type-site at Shirataki-Hattoridai, Japan. The method of working was used widely from Mongolia to Alaska and involved a bifacial core which was then turned into a wedge-shaped core by flaking off one lateral edge.
c.
11000 bc; also known as the Shirataki technique after the type-site at Shirataki-Hattoridai, Japan. The method of working was used widely from Mongolia to Alaska and involved a bifacial core which was then turned into a wedge-shaped core by flaking off one lateral edge.
yue
[Ar].
[Ar].
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