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ID: 7032869
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032869
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Columnata (deserted settlement)  Columnata (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 39 57 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 001 57 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 1.9500  decimal degrees

Note: Human activity dating to 6,000-5,000 BCE; site of quarrying, funerary monuments, and burials. The distinctive culture here is marked, among other features, by jaws having a pattern of deliberate tooth removal (evulsion) during life, usually in females.

Names:
Columnata (preferred,C,V,S)
Columnatian (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-Jazā'ir (nation)  ........  Al-Jazā'ir (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tissemsilt (province)  ............  Tissemsilt (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Columnata (deserted settlement)  ................  Columnata (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
ancient site (C)
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)
burial site (H)
prehistoric site (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Columnata..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Archaeological Sites of Israel, Egypt, and North Africa (1990) 241
....................  Fage and Oliver, Cambridge History of Africa (1982)
....................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) 31SDV0496847486
....................  Sari, Technological Change in Iberomaurusian culture (2014)
Columnatian..........  [VP]
.......................  Fage and Oliver, Cambridge History of Africa (1982)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Archaeological Sites of Israel, Egypt, and North Africa (1990) 241
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Fage and Oliver, Cambridge History of Africa (1982)
..........  Sari, Technological Change in Iberomaurusian culture (2014)

 

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