Archaeology Wordsmith

           

archaeology editor/writer providing solutions for busy archaeologists

Results for bier:

(View exact match)

bier

CATEGORY: feature
DEFINITION: The movable wooden framework or platform on which a corpse is laid, sometimes with grave goods, before burial. It is used to carry the body to the grave.

(View exact match)

Koongine

CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Limestone cave in southeast South Australia, occupied from 9000 bp that lasted 1000-2000 years. The stone assemblage gives an Early Holocene date for the Gambieran industry. It was only reoccupied within the last 1000 years.

Lake Hauroko burial

CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Site of a 17th-century AD burial of a Maori woman on an island in Lake Hauroko, southwestern South Island, New Zealand. When found, the skeleton was still sitting on a bier of sticks and wrapped in a woven flax cloak with a dogskin collar with feather edging.

Paroong Cave

CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: A limestone cave in the Mount Gambier district, South Australia with deeply incised or pounded motifs of Karake style, possibly from the Pleistocene.

Shub-Ad (fl 3rd millennium BC)

SYNONYM: Puabi
CATEGORY: person
DEFINITION: A queen or Ur c 2600 BC (Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia, c 2900-2334 BC), whose tomb was discovered in the Royal Cemetery. The tomb contained the bodies of more than 60 attendants. The queen herself lay on a wooden bier within a stone-built chamber beside that of Abargi, probably her husband. She was wearing a cloak of beads of gold, silver, and precious stones, an elaborate headdress of gold ribbons with gold and lapis lazuli pendants, and large lunate gold earrings. There were also bowls and other vessels of gold, silver, and copper, as well as pottery. In the shaft of the tomb were a wooden sledge with mosaic decoration and two oxen to draw it, an inlaid gaming board, and a magnificent harp inlaid with shell, red and blue stone.

Wyrie Swamp

CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Site in southeast South Australia with the world's oldest-known barbed spears -- and the oldest boomerangs yet found in Australia. Gambieran stone artifacts and the boomerangs, barbed and plain spears, and digging sticks occur at the 10,000-year-old site.