Archaeological Jargon & Radiocarbon dating

Archaeological Jargon & Radiocarbon dating

(For Bodil Petersson, Ros Ó Maoldúin & Stefan Burg)

The process of studying & classifying artefacts Usually in laboratory after excavation completed Including the scientific study of past human cultures Achieved by analysing the material remains of radioactive carbon Or looking at sites & artefacts that people left behind . Like Acropolis the Citadel of ancient Greek city Bodrum Or Barrow which is a heap of earth placed over prehistoric Tombs Either Neolithic mounds like Newgrange and Stonehenge & stone burial chambers like Creevagh Round Barrows of Kilshanny are Bronze Age near Carron area in central Burren . A Palmette is an ornament or design resembling the palm leaf Honouring our dead . There are many particular words about stones like alignment Which are ancient rows of standing stones like a menhir at Carnac Breton village and Noah’s ark at Karum Or arcade a set of arches & their supporting columns like merchant city of Alepo in Syria Luxor Obelisk stone pillar monument ancient Egypt Or baulk which is a man-made trench to study an archaeological site . Or a bog man or bog body which is a person preserved in peat Like Drinagh man or Ballyrickard man found in Boora bog in County Offaly Bogs are dreams for archaeologists as they preserve everything For thousands of millions of years like a Bracteate Which is a fine decorated dish plate of precious metal . Or a Callais a Green stone like Malachite as beads as ornaments or jewellery Found late Neolithic & early Bronze Age Or a Cartouch an oblong figure enclosing character Expressing Royal or Divine names in Egyptian Hieroglyphics like Pharoh, Netseth, Lapis, Anubis, Maat, Nour, Rashida, Adom, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Amun, Ra, Hathor . A caveman is a cave dweller Palaeolithic age Who uses a Celtic stone axe like instrument

Or a Burin a prehistoric flint for striking fire & hunting wild game & a Patella a small pan for cooking by hunter gatherer Of Yin & Yang salt & sweet food in balance . A Palmette is an ornament or design resembling the palm leaf Honouring our dead . With the majority of words used for subject of Burial Like Cairn mound of stones erected as a memorial or marker At Stefan Bergh’s Turlough Hill or Ros Ó Maoldúin’s Poulawack 5,000 years ago A Cist or Kist box shaped burial chamber Made from stone slabs or hollowed Oak tree trunks .

Or a Cromlech a megalithic Chamber Tomb or Dolmen At Roughan Hill where 18 people, arrowheads, pottery, stone beads & bone toggle were found Dolmen is a Neolithic stone formation consisting of a horizontal stone Supported by several vertical stones thought to be a Tomb for burial Or a Hogback a Saxon or Scandinavian Tomb with sloping sides . Or a Stele or Stela an upright stone slab column decorated with figures Or a Henge circular area or a Stone circle standing stones Erected in prehistoric times Or Richard Longs stone circle sculpture a throw back Or graffiti inscription or drawing scratched or carved onto surface of rock In epitaph . A Palmette is an ornament or design resembling the palm leaf Honouring our dead . A Leyline is a prehistoric track A Megalith a stone of great size forming part of prehistoric monument A Souterrain is an underground chamber or passage A Tumulus an ancient burial mound A Larnax is a coffin made of Terracotta .

A Palmette is an ornament or design resembling the palm leaf Honouring our dead .