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problematic

CATEGORY: term
DEFINITION: Any object that presents a problem that an archaeologist admits they cannot solve.

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Clovis

CATEGORY: culture
DEFINITION: A Paleo-Indian culture located on the plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas and beginning sometime prior to 10,000 BC. It is so named from its first important site near Clovis, NM. The culture is generally considered to be ancestral to the later Folsom complex and it, like Folsom, was part of the big-game hunting tradition. It is characterized by distinctive, fluted, lanceolate stone projectile points, believed to be the oldest of their type. In Arizona, Clovis projectile points have been found in association with mammoth bones. The most problematical Clovis find comes from a site in Texas where a Clovis point was found in hearths with a radiocarbon date of 37,000+ years. The type site for this complex is Blackwater Draw and its artifacts are of the Llano complex.

Staroselje

SYNONYM: Starosel'e
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Middle Palaeolithic rock shelter in the Crimea with artifacts (scrapers, bifacial foliates) and faunal remains (arctic fox, reindeer, wild ass). The skeleton of a child and bones of an adult are modern humans, which is problematic in relation to the dates of the artifacts and faunal remains.

wardum

CATEGORY: term
DEFINITION: A slave and servant or official of the king, according to Hammurabi's Code. A threefold division of the populace had been postulated -- awilum, a muskenum, and wardum -- but their descriptions within the Code are problematic. Wardum is the least problematic, however; he is the slave and was able to regain his freedom under certain conditions as a debtor-slave.