Términos

Describes works created by the African people of the same name living in the Niger River Delta region of Nigeria.

Úsese para describir obras producidas por el grupo étnico africano del mismo nombre que habita las praderas del Camerún.

Refers to the Eneolithic culture established in the steppes of the Minusinsk basin by Mongoloid peoples probably of Northern Siberian descent, from the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. Tombs have revealed a variety of stone sculptures.

The religion of certain groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church over papal authority and certain doctrines. The formation of the Old Catholic communion of Germans, Austrians, and Swiss began in 1870 at a public meeting held in Nuremberg. They accept certain Roman Catholic doctrine, but reject other doctrines and practices; they are not in communion with the pope in Rome.

Refers to a group of dialects for which there was no standard literary language, but was spoken until about 1100 in the highlands of southern Germany.

A West Baltic language formerly spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea east of the Vistula, related linguistically to the Lithuanian and Latvian.

The earliest recorded form of Low German, spoken by the Saxon tribes between the Rhine and Elbe rivers and between the North Sea and the Harz Mountains from the 9th until the 12th century. A distinctive characteristic of Old Saxon, shared with Old Frisian and Old English, is its preservation of the voiceless stops.

Early form of Spanish that was spoken on the Iberian Peninsula from the 10th century until early 15th century; modern Spanish differs in having had a consonantal readjustment.

Period of toolmaking tradition characterized by crude bi-directionally chipped tools of quartz, quartzite, or basalt, used for chopping, scraping, or cutting. These date from the early Paleolithic. It is thought that these implements were manufactured by early hominids or robust australopithecines.

Genus containing about 40 species of small trees and shrubs native to warm temperate and tropical regions of southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australasia, having drupe fruit that is edible.

Species of small evergreen tree native to coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin, western Asia, northern Africa, and the northern Middle East. It has long been cultivated for its drupaceous fruit that is an important food and source of oil. The wood is resistant to decay; if the top dies back, a new trunk will often arise from the roots. The species may have arisen in northern tropical Africa, then spread to the Mediterranean Basin. It had been cultivated on Crete since 3,500 BCE; fossilized leaves of the genus date to 37,000 years before present. Sometimes divided into several subspecies.

Family containing 24 extant genera and around 600 species of mesophytic shrubs, trees, and vines.

Cromolitografías impresas con pintura al aceite sobre una superficie texturada y a menudo cubiertas con barniz; popular como reproducciones económicas de pinturas al óleo en el siglo XIX tardío.