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Tepe Gawra
Tepe Gawra [Kurdish,=great mound], locality in N Iraq, 15 mi (24 km) NE of Mosul. In 1927 the archaeologist Ephraim Speiser discovered it to be the site of ancient settlements. In all, 24 levels and sublevels were unearthed; they date from the 5th millennium BC to the 2d millennium BC The levels are numbered from top to bottom. The upper levels were not very distinctive; they show a type of civilization less advanced than that found in the lower levels. In the lower levels the chronological sequence of the Halafian (c.5000 BC), Al Ubaid (c.4100-3500 BC), and Jemdet Nasr (3500-3000 BC) periods is well represented (see Mesopotamia ). The number of architectural remains from these early periods at Tepe Gawra makes it one of the most important sites of N Mesopotamia. The three monumental temple remains on an acropolis of the 13th level represent the finest architecture at the site.
Bibliography: See E. A. Speiser et al., Excavations at Tepe Gawra (2 vol., 1935-50).
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Tepee - the ultimate hunting lodge.
Magazine article from: Sports Afield; 10/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...your poles (which are a tepee's greatest inconvenience...fine explanations of tepee erection that leave not...Scurlock. Contemporary tepees cut from traditional...6363, which offers tepees from 12 feet to 22 feet...are an alternative. A tepee hunting camp has a special...
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Tepee for two: a colorful play structure you can make with no sewing.
Magazine article from: Sunset; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; A cheerful red tepee erected on the back lawn inspires hours...imaginative play. And this ripstop nylon tepee isn't difficult to make. The red shell...laces threaded through grommets secure the tepee to bamboo poles. How to make the tepee...
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Custom-designed tepees honor native culture, satisfy childhood yearnings.
Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 7/19/2002; 700+ words
; ...the tribes moved, tepees later were larger...pulled by horses. The tepee captured Salcedo...customers paint their tepees, which lengthens...year-round, a tepee will last five to...he installed four tepees for a wedding party...Napa, including one tepee the customers had...
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Custom-designed tepees honor native culture, satisfy childhood yearnings.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the tribes moved, tepees later were larger...pulled by horses. The tepee captured Salcedo...customers paint their tepees, which lengthens...year-round, a tepee will last five to...he installed four tepees for a wedding party...Napa, including one tepee the customers had...
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PITCH A TEPEE NEED A PLACE TO ESCAPE? TRY YOUR BACK YARD.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 2/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...ideal place is a tepee set up in your back...manufactures about 450 tepees a year. Daniel and...so typically our tepee was two-thirds...people heat their tepees with an open fire...Kigar warns. Each tepee takes about six hours...Montrose warehouse. The tepees come with assembly...
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Staying and playing in tepees on island near Seattle.(The Seattle Times)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/6/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...surrounded a field of tepees, which are characteristically...finished setting up our tepee when we arrived at...the hostel and its tepee accommodations...night because the tepees inspired their musings...From inside our tepee we noticed tufted...clothing. Of the 10 tepees, ours stood ...
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PORTABLE BENEFITS ENTHUSIASTS THINK THE TEPEE MAKES A PERFECT HOME.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...owned and camped in tepees since 1972, has...try to rent her tepee for romantic interludes...who takes her tepees to powwows and rendezvous...little john in my tepee and had people open...and taking down a tepee." Meneley said tepees and yurts, a more...
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A COUPLE FINDS HARMONY IN TEPEE FOR TWO
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 4/9/1993; 700+ words
; ...bought it from Nomadic Tepee Makers of Oregon...company that made the tepees used in the movie...Adkinses live in the tepee almost year-round...Indians to make their tepees in the 1800s, Adkins said. The tepee is supported by 15...
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PAST TENTS THE HARDY, VERSATILE NATIVE AMERICAN TEPEE IS RIGHT AT HOME IN THE 21ST CENTURY.(AT HOME)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/14/2002; 700+ words
; ...comfortable and cozy option. Tepee (also spelled tipi or...dwelling. Many people find tepees mystical, making them...Among the dozen or so tepee manufacturers in the...recently completed 62 tepees for a Canadian film company...Hoerauf says a tepee can double as a spare...
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Not a Plain(s) tepee.(school art project)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 5/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Erecting a 16'(5 m) tepee on our school grounds created a vast...cultures. The school board had purchased a tepee cover which came without poles and other...use on the T-shirts, hats and on the tepee. Learning the Meaning of Traditional...
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tepee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tepee or tipi , typical dwelling of Native North...generally left at the top for smoke. The tepee was sometimes very elaborately decorated...Blackfoot. Because of the adaptability of the tepee to prairie life, Gen. Henry Sibley used...
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Plains Indians
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...other animals, such as deer, elk, and rabbits, were also used. The tepee was the typical dwelling: the conical tent was made by stretching skins over a wood frame. Tepees were durable, easily moved, and could be assembled quickly. Tribes...
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evaporites
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...is formed in evaporated lakes, it can show desiccation structures such as cracks, polygons, and tepees (fold-like structures resembling tepee tents). Trace levels of bromine substituted for the chlorine in halite can indicate the source and...
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Housing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...s version, called a longhouse, could contain as many as thirty families. Plains Indians, in contrast, erected tentlike tepees, constructed out of poles wrapped with buffalo skins. In the Southeast, Cherokees built log houses out of small logs chinked...
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wigwam
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
wigwam Shelter used by Native North Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture. Wigwams were made from bark, reed mats or thatch, spread over a pole frame. They should not be confused with the conical, skin-covered tepees of the Native Americans of the Plains.
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