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  • Object[1,153]
  • yes[1,153]
  • no[1,136]
  • yes[17]
  • african[10]
  • american[77]
  • asian[4]
  • egyptian[16]
  • european[46]
  • mediterranean[77]
  • near eastern[923]
  • bead[5]
  • beads[5]
  • boss[1]
  • button[2]
  • cotton[1]
  • leather[1]
  • lid[1]
  • loom weight[4]
  • model[2]
  • pin head[7]
  • pinhead[1]
  • rattle[2]
  • spindle[7]
  • spindle whorl[1,153]
  • spindles[2]
  • thread[1]
  • token[2]
  • wheel[9]
  • wool[1]
  • africa[2]
  • ain jawan[1]
  • argive heraeum[1]
  • argolid[2]
  • arizona[4]
  • ayia paraskevi[20]
  • bamboula[22]
  • beneath the temple[4]
  • bern canton[2]
  • beth shean[215]
  • beth shemesh[53]
  • bhavnagar district[4]
  • billa[54]
  • bohemia[4]
  • budhel mound[1]
  • cappadocia[1]
  • cheka sabz[42]
  • chipal[1]
  • chosla mound[1]
  • civita castellana[1]
  • colorado[1]
  • commune de bassillac[1]
  • crete[8]
  • cyprus[48]
  • czech republic[4]
  • department of quiche[1]
  • department of sacatepequez[1]
  • department of suchitepequez[1]
  • dinkha[1]
  • dordogne[1]
  • durango[2]
  • egypt[16]
  • el zape[1]
  • estavayer[1]
  • etruria[6]
  • europe[4]
  • fara[6]
  • france[12]
  • germany[1]
  • gibeon[7]
  • gournia[8]
  • gravefield i[21]
  • gravefield i, oldest part[11]
  • gravefield ii[4]
  • gravefield iii[3]
  • greece[10]
  • guatemala[16]
  • gujarat[3]
  • gurob[2]
  • hajji firuz[5]
  • hano[2]
  • hasanlu[5]
  • holland[4]
  • india[4]
  • iran[280]
  • iraq[361]
  • israel[268]
  • istakhr[19]
  • italy[6]
  • jordan[5]
  • kaloriziki[2]
  • kamterlan[5]
  • karanog cemetery[12]
  • kourion[24]
  • la centinela[2]
  • lake biel[4]
  • lake bourget[11]
  • lake neuchatel[7]
  • lake zurich[3]
  • lapithos[4]
  • liberia[8]
  • mediterranean[13]
  • mexico (central america)[3]
  • murteza gerd[4]
  • narce[3]
  • neuchatel[4]
  • neuchatel canton[6]
  • nippur[14]
  • northwest of the town[6]
  • nubia[12]
  • pachacamac[53]
  • palestine[7]
  • peru[53]
  • qabr sheykhan[6]
  • rayy[108]
  • rimah[3]
  • saint-blaise[2]
  • savoie[11]
  • surkh dum[2]
  • susa (iran)[16]
  • switzerland[21]
  • tall as-sa'idiyya[5]
  • tepe gawra[255]
  • tepe hissar[59]
  • tureng[6]
  • unhost[2]
  • ur[31]
  • varharvo mound[2]
  • wollishofen[2]
  • zurich canton[3]
  • kourion[24]
  • rayy[112]
  • 16th century[1]
  • aunjetitz[1]
  • billa i[5]
  • billa ia[1]
  • billa ii[4]
  • billa v[1]
  • billa vi[4]
  • bohemian bronze age i[1]
  • bohemian eneolithic[1]
  • bronze age[13]
  • bylany phase[1]
  • byzantine[11]
  • chalcolithic[10]
  • cypro-geometric ia[1]
  • cypro-geometric ib[1]
  • early arabic[1]
  • early bronze age[1]
  • early cypriot ii[1]
  • early cypriot iii[1]
  • early iron age[2]
  • eighteenth dynasty[2]
  • gawra iv[1]
  • gawra ix[6]
  • gawra sub xi[13]
  • gawra vi[5]
  • gawra vii[21]
  • gawra viii[29]
  • gawra viiia[2]
  • gawra viiib[1]
  • gawra x[11]
  • gawra xa[3]
  • gawra xi[31]
  • gawra xi intrusive[2]
  • gawra xia[24]
  • gawra xii[49]
  • gawra xiia[1]
  • gawra xiii[2]
  • halaf period[1]
  • hallstatt i[1]
  • hasanlu period iv[2]
  • hellenistic[13]
  • hellenistic period[3]
  • hissar i[7]
  • hissar ia[5]
  • hissar ib[11]
  • hissar ii[5]
  • hissar iia[2]
  • hissar iib[1]
  • hissar iii[23]
  • hissar iiia[9]
  • hissar iiib[2]
  • hissar iiic[2]
  • iron age[3]
  • iron age i[1]
  • iron age ia[6]
  • iron age ib[40]
  • iron age iia[37]
  • iron age iib[28]
  • islamic[4]
  • islamic i[1]
  • jordansmuhl phase[1]
  • late 19th century[1]
  • late bronze age[2]
  • late bronze ib[27]
  • late bronze iia[27]
  • late bronze iib[15]
  • late cypriot ia[3]
  • late cypriot ia:2[6]
  • late cypriot ib[1]
  • late cypriot iia[2]
  • late cypriot iib[2]
  • late cypriot iiia[1]
  • late cypriot iiib[1]
  • late harappan[4]
  • late minoan i[4]
  • medieval[1]
  • middle bronze age[4]
  • middle bronze iib[4]
  • middle bronze iic[7]
  • middle kingdom[1]
  • neolithic[25]
  • new kingdom[2]
  • pre-flood[1]
  • rimah ii[2]
  • roman[13]
  • roman period[51]
  • sa'idiyya v[5]
  • third intermediate period[1]
  • twelfth dynasty[1]
  • twenty-second dynasty[1]
  • unetice[1]
  • bohemian bronze age i[1]
  • bohemian eneolithic[1]
  • bronze age[11]
  • chalchihuites[2]
  • chiriqui[1]
  • cypriot[28]
  • egyptian[4]
  • etruscan[5]
  • faliscan[4]
  • hallstatt culture[1]
  • harappan[2]
  • hellenistic[3]
  • highland maya[1]
  • hopi[1]
  • hopi-tewa[2]
  • iron age[5]
  • islamic[1]
  • italic[1]
  • lake dweller[1]
  • late harappan[2]
  • medieval[1]
  • meroitic[12]
  • minoan[7]
  • mycenean[1]
  • neolithic[4]
  • pokomam[1]
  • roman[51]
  • swiss[1]
  • swiss lake dweller[21]
  • andean[53]
  • central american[20]
  • southwest culture area[4]
  • 10 m [10 h][1]
  • 1183, e. of s. temple on level v[1]
  • 6 j[1]
  • 6 m[1]
  • 8 m [10 k][1]
  • 9 j [12 j][1]
  • 9 m[1]
  • [10 j][1]
  • [10 m][1]
  • [12 m][1]
  • [9 h] 10 'o'[1]
  • area a-d:2[1]
  • area e-d:1f[1]
  • below tuthmosis iii temple on level ix[2]
  • bought on the spot[1]
  • c.n. 260[4]
  • c.n. 260, loculus b[1]
  • c.n. 260, loculus below 262[4]
  • c.n. 295[1]
  • c.n. 295, entrance[1]
  • c.n. debris, above 255[3]
  • cg 25[1]
  • cg 95[1]
  • cn iv, debris s.w. of tomb 219[1]
  • cultural pit[2]
  • depth .15-.45[1]
  • depth .20[1]
  • depth .25-.45[1]
  • depth .60-.80[1]
  • depth .70-.85[1]
  • depth 0- .25 n.e.[1]
  • depth 2.15-[1]
  • depth 2.50-2.95 c.w.[1]
  • depth 2.65-2.80[1]
  • depth 3.00-3.10 c.[1]
  • df 09[2]
  • dg 00[3]
  • dg 36[4]
  • dump[4]
  • from a mummy[4]
  • g 27, level vi[3]
  • g 293[7]
  • g284[2]
  • halaf period[7]
  • i l[2]
  • i n[2]
  • i o[4]
  • ii m[9]
  • ii o[2]
  • j a[5]
  • k a[3]
  • level 6[2]
  • level 7[20]
  • level 8[23]
  • level 8 a[2]
  • level 8, trial trench[3]
  • level 9[2]
  • level intrusive xi[2]
  • level ix[4]
  • level sub xi[12]
  • level viii[2]
  • level x[10]
  • level xa[3]
  • level xi[29]
  • level xi a[9]
  • level xia[15]
  • level xii[45]
  • m a[6]
  • m e[2]
  • n.w. of room 1507[5]
  • o f[2]
  • o g[2]
  • obtained at mamacona.[3]
  • period ii[3]
  • period iii[11]
  • period iii c[2]
  • r 13, level ii[2]
  • room 1601[3]
  • surface[4]
  • tepe gawra, 4 '0' [9 p][6]
  • tepe gawra, 4 m [10 p][6]
  • tepe gawra, 4 q [8 p][4]
  • tepe gawra, 5 '0' [9 n][9]
  • tepe gawra, 5 j [12 n][4]
  • tepe gawra, 5 k[12]
  • tepe gawra, 5 k [11 n][3]
  • tepe gawra, 5 m [10 n][6]
  • tepe gawra, 5 q [8 n][3]
  • tepe gawra, 6 '0' [9 m][5]
  • tepe gawra, 6 g [13 m][4]
  • tepe gawra, 6 g-j [12-13 m][2]
  • tepe gawra, 6 k [11 m][9]
  • tepe gawra, 6 m [10 m][8]
  • tepe gawra, 6 q [8 m][3]
  • tepe gawra, 7 k [11 l][2]
  • tepe gawra, 7 q [8 l][5]
  • tepe gawra, area a[7]
  • tomb 1[2]
  • tomb 2[4]
  • tomb 815c[2]
  • bird[1]
  • wheel?[2]
  • alabaster[36]
  • amber[1]
  • basalt[1]
  • bitumen[2]
  • bone[127]
  • bronze[4]
  • brown stone[4]
  • carnelian[4]
  • ceramic[136]
  • clay[34]
  • copper[4]
  • cotton[1]
  • faience[1]
  • fruit[1]
  • fur[1]
  • glass[12]
  • glaze[1]
  • granite[4]
  • greenstone[1]
  • iron[1]
  • ivory[65]
  • lapis lazuli[1]
  • leather[1]
  • limestone[31]
  • marble (stone)[3]
  • mollusk shell[1]
  • paste[4]
  • pigment[1]
  • reed (plant)[1]
  • sandstone[7]
  • serpentine[16]
  • shale[1]
  • shell[6]
  • silver[1]
  • slate[22]
  • soapstone[2]
  • steatite[26]
  • stone[106]
  • talc[1]
  • terracotta[488]
  • wood[26]
  • wool[2]
  • carved[1]
  • engraved[5]
  • glazed[2]
  • incised[30]
  • inlaid[2]
  • inscribing[1]
  • painted[1]
  • red polished[4]
  • slipped[2]
  • unbaked[2]
  • yes[281]
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