From the Abbevillean handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, the "nutcracker man" of Africa, this dictionary describes, in more than 1,600 entries with cross-references, the sites, cultures, periods, techniques, terms and personalities of archaeology.