Medieval archaeology, 861–869

Bulgaria, 227–228, 232–233

early and late traditions in, 861–863

early descriptions and investigations, 863

nineteenth century, 863–866

Novgorod, 952–953

recent developments, 868–869

twentieth century, 866–868

York, 1337–1338

Medieval Archaeology (journal), 868

Medieval Europe Conference, 869

Medieval Settlement Group (Britain), 868

Medieval Sweden (Hildebrand), 623

Medieval Village Research Group (Britain), 868

Medina, Alberto, 309

Medina, José T., 302–303

Medinet Habu, 446(photo), 850

Mediterranean Archaeology (journal), 123

Medway, Lord, 696

Meehan, Betty, 1156

Meer, 147

Meet the Ancestors (television show), 215

Megalith builders, 405

Megalithic burials/graves

Netherlands, 926

Obermaier Grad, Hugo, 966

See also Cemeteries

Megalithic monuments/stelae

Aksum, 40(photo)

Carnac, France, 528(photo)

Daniel, Glyn, 405

Megalopolis, 196

Megaw, A. H. S., 780

Megaw, Vincent, 116

Meggers, Betty J., 183, 184, 188, 266, 308, 363, 437, 438, 1174

Mehrgarh, 657–658, 1189–1190

Meijer, D. J. W., 932

Meiji Restoration, 736–737

Meillacan Ostionoid people, 273

Meillacan peoples, 269

Meinander, C. F., 499

Mekong Delta, 245–246

Mekong Exploration Commission, 241

Melanesia, 999–1006

Lapita culture, 1003–1004

origins of Polynesia, 1053

post-Lapita, 1004–1006

pre-Lapita, 1000–1003

shell midden analysis, 1157

Melbourne, 117

Melbourne University, 125

Melgaard middens, 767, 1333

Melka Kontouré, 20, 36, 38

Mellaart, James, 1277

Mellen, Jacob, 1037

Mello, Ulysses Pernambucano de, 186

Meltzer, David, 636

Melville, H. L. Leydie, 649

Mema, 75

Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan (Rennell), 1185

Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu (Stein), 1209

Memoirs of Neograndaian Antigues (Uricoechea), 357

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 82

Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, 1174

Memorial de Soloa, 607

Memorial de Tecpan Atitlan, 605

Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Times (Wilson), 1324

Memory culture, 1300

Memphis (Egypt), 455, 461, 468, 1148

Men Out of Asia (Gladwin), 588

Mena, F., 313

Menchcourt-les-Abbeville, 177

Mendes, 918

Mendes Corrěa, A., 1068

Mendez, Modesto, 606

Mendizábal, Othón de, 886

Mendonça de Souza, Alfredo, 180

Menendez Pidal, Ramon, 1198

Menes, 455, 458(photo), 459

Menghin, Osmund, 131

Menghin, Oswald, 27, 108, 130, 305, 306, 307–308, 309, 583

Der Mensch der Vorzeit (Obermaier), 966

Menthuhotep II, 919

Menumoruth, 1123

Mercati, Michele, 79, 869–870

Mercouri, Melina, 601

Mercury Series (Canada), 254

Merhart, Gero von, 131, 555, 582

Merimda Beni-Salama, 456

Mérimée, Prosper, 97

Meroe, 956, 957, 959, 960, 963, 1094

Meroitic civilization, 569, 956

Merrick, Harry, 7

Mertens, Jozef, 146

Merwin, R. E., 150, 1008

Mesa Verde, 572, 1293(photo)

Mesco I, 616, 1044

Mesoamerica, 870–871

archaeological sites, 870(map)

Catherwood, Frederick, 281–283

Chaco Canyon, 296

domestication of plants and animals, 428

French archaeology, 540, 541, 543

Guatemala, 604–609

historical linguistics, 791

La Venta, 788–789

Maya civilization, 852–855

Olmec civilization, 969–970

Palenque, 973–974

satellite and radar imagery, 1098

Stephens, John Lloyd, 1210–1211

Stone, Doris, 1212–1213

Tenochtitlán, 1262–1263

Teotihuacán, 1263–1266

Toltecs, 1273–1274

See also Olmec civilization; Maya civilization; Mexico

Mesolithic, 478–486

archaeology of, 480–481

chronology of, 480

Grahame Clark’s synthesis of, 479–480

continuity with Upper Paleolithic, 485–486

defined, 478

domestication of plants and animals, 426

Eastern Europe, 485

ecological anthropology of, 481–482

European prehistory, 478–479

Iberia, 483–484

Le Mas d’Azil, 808–809

microliths, 479, 480, 482, 485–486

Norway, 484–485

southern Scandinavia, 482–483

Turkey, 1277

The Mesolithic Age in Britain (Clark), 214, 334, 479

The Mesolithic Settlement in Northern Europe (Clark), 479

Mesopotamia, 871–878

Adams, Robert McCormick, 3–5

archaeological sites, 872(photo)

Babylonian civilization, 139–140

Bell, Gertrude, 154–155

Botta, Paul, 176

Dutch archaeology, 932

French archaeology, 550–551

gold helmet, 878(photo)

Hassuna, 614

history of excavation in, 871–874

Indus civilization and, 656

intellectual history of archaeology in, 874–878

Layard, Austen, 807–808

Nimrud, 951

Nineveh, 952

Parrot, André, 1006