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Spanish to English Archaeology Translation Glossary

Spanish term		English translation
lanzadera (como arma indigena)		propeller, atlatl, lance thrower	Wendy Gosselin
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin
las murallas acodadas de remoto origen en la poliorcética helenística		angled walls, which date as far back as the siege warfare of Hellenistic times
le aplicó un tratamiento especial		it underwent special treatment
Lebrillo		bowl
lementos simbólicamente puntuales		symbolically placed details
letras quebradas		Fraktur / Fraktur script	Ángel Domínguez
Entered by: Ángel Domínguez
levantamiento de esqueletos		removing of skeletons / lifting of skeletons
levantamiento de plantas		site mapping
Ligante		binder
Lingotes de piel de toro o chipriotas		Ox-hide ingot
llevan un alto y suntuoso tocador		wear a tall and elaborate headdress
lo que supuso de ruptura		what is assumed to represent a departure from
losas sesquipedales		sesquipedal/sesquipedalian slabs/tiles/flagstone
mampostería de bloques careados		ashlar masonry / ashlar
maquillaje facial propiciatorio		requisite/appropriate facial makeup	Carol Gullidge
Entered by: Carol Gullidge
marco interpretativo contrastable		comparative/interpretive framework	Edward Tully
Entered by: Edward Tully
martillo de minero		mining hammer
materia optativa informativa		informative elective subject
material cultural mueble		movable cultural objects
mediodía hispano		southern Hispania
mitogramas		mythograms	Steven Huddleston
Entered by: Steven Huddleston
monticular y buzante,		mound-like and sloping
musealización		museological conservation
notas críticas		essays	Joseph Tein
Entered by: Joseph Tein
omóplato		shoulder blade
optativa auxiliar		auxiliary elective subject
orientalizante		orientalising period/orientalizing period
orla circular		circular border
Papel parado		stiff paper
paquetes de tierra		rammed earth	Marie Wilson
Entered by: Marie Wilson
paramento de tégulas		"Tegula" wall/face/cover
parcialidad		area
pastas decantadas		decanted clays
Pastillaje		pastillaje/embroidered clay
pórfido trapense		trap-porphyry
pectiniforme		pectiniform
película pictórica		pigment(ed) layer/layer depicting the image	S Ben Price
Entered by: S Ben Price
perfiles		profiles
peritaje		inspection
pie de copa		pedestal base	liz askew
Entered by: liz askew

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