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- (from the article "India") ...more-detailed cultural profiles for those periods, scholars have come to emphasize the subsistence bases of early societies-e.g., hunting and gathering, pastoralism, and agriculture. The terms Early Harappan and Harappan (from the site where remains of a major city of the ...
- Early Horizon
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The Early Horizon emerged after the appearance and rapid spread of the Chavin art style, ending the regional isolation of the Initial Period. The Chavin art style derives its name from the ruined temple complex of Chavin de Huantar in ...
- Early Hunting period
- (from the article "Mexico") ...central Mexico remains speculative. The assertions of some archaeologists and linguists that early humans resided in Mexico some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, before developing technology for big-game hunting, are rejected by most scholars. More generally accepted claims for early ...
- Early Intermediate period
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The Early Horizon was succeeded by what has been termed the Early Intermediate Period. The onset of the Early Intermediate marked the decline of Chavin's cultural influence and the attainment of artistic and technological peaks in a number of centres, ...
- Early Iron Age
- (from the article "France") ...Danube about 1200 BC. Its expansion westward and southward, through diffusion and migration, was stimulated by a shift from bronze- to ironworking. Archaeologically, the type of developing Celtic Iron Age culture conventionally classified as Hallstatt appeared in Gaul from about ...
- Early Jomon
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") Early Jomon (5000-3500 BC) sites suggest a pattern of increased stabilization of communities, the formation of small settlements, and the astute use of abundant natural resources. A general climatic warming trend encouraged habitation in the mountain areas of central Honshu ...
- Early Ly dynasty
- (from the article "Later Ly dynasty") ...known later as Dai Viet, was established by Ly Thai To in the Red River Delta area of present northern Vietnam. Its capital was Thang Long (Hanoi). (It is "later" with respect to the Earlier Ly dynasty, founded by Ly ...
- early Medieval Warm Period
- (from the article "Holocene Epoch") Approximately AD 1000-1250 the worldwide warm-up that culminated in the 10th century and has been called the early Medieval Warm Period or the "Little Climatic Optimum," continued for two more centuries, although there was a brief drop in mean solar ...
- Early Middle English language
- (from the article "Middle English language") The history of Middle English is often divided into three periods: (1) Early Middle English, from about 1100 to about 1250, during which the Old English system of writing was still in use; (2) the Central Middle English period from ...
- early Miocene Epoch
- (from the article "hutia") ...order Rodentia. Their closest living relatives are the nutria and American spiny rats. The oldest species of hutia (genus Zazamys) is represented by Cuban fossils from the Early Miocene Epoch (23,800,000 to 16,400,000 years ago); remains of the eight genera ...
- Early Modern English language
- (from the article "English language") The death of Chaucer at the close of the century (1400) marked the beginning of the period of transition from Middle English to the Early Modern English stage. The Early Modern English period is regarded by many scholars as beginning ...
- Early Modern Japanese language
- (from the article "Japanese language") ...however, to divide the 1,200-year history into four or five periods; Old Japanese (up to the 8th century), Late Old Japanese (9th-11th century), Middle Japanese (12th-16th century), Early Modern Japanese (17th-18th century), and Modern Japanese (19th century to the present).
- Early Nazca pottery
- (from the article "Nazca") ...in black and filled in with various shades of red, orange, blue-gray, or purple. The designs are naturalistic (people, animals, birds, fish, plants) but quite stylized and often stiff or angular. Early Nazca pottery tends to be confined to either ...
- Early Netherlandish art
- sculpture, painting, architecture, and other visual arts created in the several domains that in the late 14th and 15th centuries were under the rule of the dukes of Burgundy, coincidentally counts of Flanders. As "Burgundian" and "Flemish" describe only parts ... [1 Related Articles]
- Early Palace Period
- (from the article "Aegean civilizations") Crete does not seem to have been affected by the movements of people into the Cyclades and the mainland at the end of the 3rd millennium, but important changes were taking place there. Great palaces of a distinctive type built ...
- Early Permian Epoch
- (from the article "Permian Period") ...occurring in the region that would become North America, and the continuance of the Hercynian orogeny, its northwestern European counterpart. The assembly of Pangea was complete by the middle of the Early Permian Epoch following its fusion to Angara (part ...
- early Pliocene Epoch
- (from the article "grasshopper mouse") ...Onychomys species are related to grasshopper mice represented by four-million to five-million-year-old fossils that extend the evolutionary history of the genus back to the Early Pliocene Epoch (5.3 million to 3.6 million years ago) in North America.harvest mouse
- Early Proterozoic Era
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...the evidence is provided by glacial deposits in sediments of the Pongola Rift in southern Africa. The most extensive early Precambrian Huronian glaciation occurred 2.3 billion years ago during the early Proterozoic. It can be recognized from the rocks and ...
- early purple orchid
- (from the article "Orchis") The root of the early purple orchid (O. mascula) and several other species contain a nutritive starch. In southern Europe they are collected and dried to produce a flour that is mixed with sugar, flavourings, and liquid (such as water ...
- Early Renaissance
- (from the article "Western architecture") The Renaissance began in Italy, where there was always a residue of Classical feeling in architecture. A Gothic building such as the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence was characterized by a large round arch instead of the usual Gothic pointed ...
- Early Sefardic
- (from the article "calligraphy") ...from the first 500 years of the Common Era. Most of the development in the square Hebrew script occurred between 1000 and 1500 CE. The earliest script to emerge from the Dead Sea writing was the Early Sefardic (Spharadic), with ...
- Early Shang
- (from the article "China") ...century BC.) One must, however, distinguish Shang as an archaeological term from Shang as a dynastic one. Erlitou, in north-central Henan, for example, was initially classified archaeologically as Early Shang; its developmental sequence from about 2400 to 1450 BC documents ...
- Early Silurian Epoch
- (from the article "Silurian Period") ...stratotype was fixed at a horizon in Dob's Linn near Moff in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The effect on sea level of Late Ordovician glaciation, combined with increasing deglaciation during the early Silurian, accounts for widespread stratigraphic unconformities at ...
- Early Triassic Epoch
- (from the article "Triassic Period") ...that were to take place throughout the Mesozoic Era, particularly in the distribution of continents, the evolution of life, and the geographic distribution of living things. At the beginning of the Triassic, virtually all the major landmasses of the world ...
- Early Vedic period
- (from the article "Bihar") In the Early Vedic period (beginning with the entrance of the Vedic religion into South Asia about 1500 BCE), several kingdoms existed in the plains of Bihar. North of the Ganges was Videha, one of the kings of which was ...
- Early, Jubal A
- Confederate general in the American Civil War (1861-65) whose army at one time threatened Washington, D.C., but whose series of defeats during the Shenandoah Valley campaigns of late 1864 and early 1865 led to the final collapse of the South. ...
- earlywood
- (from the article "angiosperm") ...woody angiosperms are usually annual, but under environmental fluctuations, such as drought, more than one can form, or none at all. Growth rings result from the difference in density between the early wood (spring wood) and the late wood (summer ...
- earmark
- (from the article "United States") ...health care programs and significantly tightened Washington lobbying and ethics rules. Critics noted that the new rules did not directly address concerns over rapidly expanding congressional earmarks-projects inserted in appropriations bills by individual lawmakers-and President Bush complained that a massive ...
- Earn
- loch (lake) and river, central Scotland. Loch Earn lies on the boundary between the council area of Stirling and the council area of Perth and Kinross, and the River Earn flows through Perth and Kinross. Loch Earn is 6.5 miles ...
- Earn, Loch
- (from the article "Earn") loch (lake) and river, central Scotland. Loch Earn lies on the boundary between the council area of Stirling and the council area of Perth and Kinross, and the River Earn flows through Perth and Kinross. Loch Earn is 6.5 miles ...
- Earn, River
- (from the article "Earn") loch (lake) and river, central Scotland. Loch Earn lies on the boundary between the council area of Stirling and the council area of Perth and Kinross, and the River Earn flows through Perth and Kinross. Loch Earn is 6.5 miles ...
- Earnhardt, Dale
- American stock-car racer who was the dominant driver in the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) during the 1980s and '90s. [2 Related Articles]
- Earnshaw, Thomas
- English watchmaker, the first to simplify and economize in producing chronometers so as to make them available to the general public.
- Earp, Wyatt
- legendary frontiersman of the American West, who was an itinerant saloonkeeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, and confidence man. The first major biography, Stuart N. Lake's Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal (1931), written with Earp's collaboration, established the rather fictionalized portrait of a ... [3 Related Articles]
- earphone
- small loudspeaker held or worn close to the listener's ear or within the outer ear. Common forms include the hand-held telephone receiver; the headphone, in which one or two earphones are held in place by a band worn over the ...
- earplug
- type of ear ornament usually inserted in pierced and distended earlobes and generally worn by traditional peoples. Earplugs were the direct forerunners of today's pierced earrings.
- earring
- a personal ornament worn pendent from the ear, usually suspended by means of a ring or hook passing through a pierced hole in the lobe of the ear or, in modern times, often by means of a screwed clip on ... [6 Related Articles]
- Earth
- third planet from the Sun and the fifth in the solar system in terms of size and mass. Its single most outstanding feature is that its near-surface environments are the only places in the universe known to harbour life. It ... [50 Related Articles]
- Earth art
- (from the article "Downs") ...figures of horses cut out of turf; ridge and scarp-foot trackways that focus on megalithic monuments, such as Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire; innumerable burial mounds or barrows; defensive earthworks; and ring encampments, such as Maiden Castle in Dorset.
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- earth auger
- (from the article "drilling machinery") The simplest rotary drill is the earth auger, which is hand-operated and resembles the wood auger used in carpentry. The earth auger, used principally for drilling holes in relatively soft earth, is armed with either a spiral drill or a ...
- Earth Day
- annual celebration honouring the achievements of the environmental movement and raising awareness of the importance of long-term ecological sustainability. Earth Day is celebrated in the United States on April 22; throughout the rest of the world it is celebrated on ... [1 Related Articles]
- Earth exploration
- the investigation of the surface of the Earth and of its interior. [19 Related Articles]
- Earth impact hazard
- the danger of collision posed by astronomical small bodies whose orbits around the Sun carry them near Earth. These objects include the rocky asteroids and their larger fragments and the icy nuclei of comets.
- earth lodge
- (from the article "Plains Indian") The earth lodge, the dwelling used by most village tribes, was much larger than a tepee. Earth lodges averaged 40 to 60 feet (12 to 18 metres) in diameter, encompassing approximately 1,250 to 2,825 square feet (116 to 263 square ...
- Earth Mother
- in ancient and modern nonliterate religions, an eternally fruitful source of everything. Unlike the variety of female fertility deities called mother goddesses (q.v.), the Earth Mother is not a specific source of vitality who must periodically undergo sexual intercourse. She ... [7 Related Articles]
- earth python
- (from the article "python") ...Rica. Usually less than 1 metre long, it is reported to reach nearly 1.5 metres. It seems to be predominantly nocturnal, foraging on the ground for a variety of small vertebrates. The so-called earth, or burrowing, python (
- Earth satellite
- man-made object launched into a temporary or permanent orbit around the Earth. Spacecraft of this type may be either manned or unmanned, the latter being the most common. [33 Related Articles]
- Earth Sciences
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- Earth sciences
- the fields of study concerned with the solid Earth, its waters, and the air that envelops it. Included are the geologic, hydrologic, and atmospheric sciences. [43 Related Articles]
- Earth Simulator
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...to have the best chance of selling its product to American scientists, who believed that they were falling behind Japanese researchers who were using the world's fastest supercomputer-the Earth Simulator, built by Japanese firm NEC. The Earth Simulator had a ...
- Earth tide
- deformation of the solid Earth as it rotates within the gravitational fields of the Sun and Moon. Earth tides are similar to ocean tides. The Earth deforms because it has a certain degree of elasticity; were it perfectly rigid, there ... [2 Related Articles]
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