ANTHROPOLOGY: The study of man and his cultural activities.
ARCHAEOLOGY: The division of [anthropology] that studies peoples of the past through the remains of their works that are found in the ground.
ARCHAIC ([SUBCULTURE]): An archaeological subdivision of the [Lithic] [Pattern] characterized by broad-bladed barbed [spearheads], [spearthrower] weights and “bannerstones,” small camps, and a hunting-collecting [economy] (without plant-raising or food-storage).
ARROWHEADS: Projectile points less than three inches long presumed to have been used to tip arrows.
ART: A form of human endeavor in which the individual or artist, with more or less skill, tries to produce an object or activity of such a nature that it is esthetically satisfying in some sense both to himself and to his group generally.
ARTIFACTS: Any object made by man, or a natural object modified by man, in order to satisfy a cultural need. (Only the names and uses of artifacts that are not self-explanatory appear in the glossary).
ATLATL: See [SPEARTHROWER].
ASSEMBLAGE: In this paper assemblage refers to the selected significant artifact types of an archaeological unit. In a more general sense, it signifies the aggregate of [artifacts] found at a particular site, or in a deposit belonging to a single [culture] at the site.
AX: Refers in this paper to the grooved ground [stone] head resembling the modern steel ax in general form and presumably used for chopping in a somewhat similar manner.
AZTALAN: The site of a [Middle Phase] fortified village with mounds in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, in the Cahokia [Subculture]. It was investigated by the Milwaukee Public Museum. See S. A. Barrett in Bibliography.