Index 1261Late Antique period (Rome)
114
Late Archaic Period (Americas)
mining, quarrying, and
salt making 750
textiles and needlework
1084
Late Bronze Age
architecture 74
cities 222
economy 361
migration and population
movements 703–704, 709
music and musical instru-
ments 766, 769
seafaring and navigation
957
Late Classical Period (Greece)
857
Late Formative Period (Amer-
icas)
death and burial practices
323
drama and theater 338
festivals 471
government organization
537
religion and cosmology
864–865
writing 1192
Late Holocene Epoch 446
Late Iron Age
economy 362
foreigners and barbarians
488
La Tène culture
craft s 291
science 936
Late Neolithic 317
Late Period (Egypt)
children 189
craft s 286
empires and dynasties
395–396
festivals 464
literature 646–647
money and coinage 753
seafaring and navigation
954
Late Preceramic Period
(Americas)
empires and dynasties 421
religion and cosmology
865
Late Preclassic Period (Ameri-
cas)
art 120
building techniques and
materials 161
inventions 604
Late Roman Republic 369–
370
lathes 293
latifundia
agriculture 43
settlement patterns 972Latin alphabet 1188
Latin language
language 613, 616, 618–619
migration and population
movements 718
social collapse and aban-
donment 1008
latitudes 956
latrines 555
laudatio 320
Laurentide ice sheet
climate and geography
247
migration and population
movements 720
La Venta
adornment 13–14
architecture 82–85
art 119–120
clothing and footwear 282
death and burial practices
322
drama and theater 338
economy 372–373
employment and labor
434
foreigners and barbarians
491
religion and cosmology
864
roads and bridges 892
social collapse and aban-
donment 1009
Law of the Twelve Tables 303,
304
Laws (Plato) 1145
laws and legal codes 621–638
Africa 621–622
Americas 630–631
Asia and the Pacifi c 625–
626, 626f
crime and punishment
296, 299, 300, 302, 303,
305–306
economy 369
Egypt 622–624, 623f,
631–633
Europe 626–628
government organization
525
Greece 628–629, 635–636
laws and legal codes 628
Middle East 624–625,
633–635
Rome 629–630, 636–638
Laws of Manu
crime and punishment
300–301
family 452
lawsuits 631
lawyers 630
lays (poems) 655
lead 744
lead lines 960
lead pig 749f
Leakey, Louis and Mary 313leather
clothing and footwear 273,
274, 276, 279
weaponry and armor 1164,
1167
Lebanon 954
Lee, Richard 572
legal codes. See laws and legal
codes
legalism
economy 356
government organization
520
laws and legal codes 625,
626
scandals and corruption
913
social organization 1025
legal rights
gender structures and roles
495, 501
slaves and slavery 985,
987, 993
legionnaires
military 735
weaponry and armor 1170
legions
military 734–735
war and conquest 1153
leg ornaments 93
legumes
agriculture 20, 25, 45, 46
food and diet 474, 479
léine 279
leitourgia 366
lekythos 183
Lenaea 469
Lenape (Lenni Lenape) people
1153–1154
length, measurement of 1173,
1174, 1176 –1179, 1182
leprosy 821, 825
Leptis Magna 229
Lesbos island 658
Lessons for a Woman (Ban
Zhao) 505–506
letters (literature)
literature 662
writing 1191, 1192
Levant
climate and geography 245
education 380
employment and labor
428
migration and population
movements 699–700
religion and cosmology
843
Levantine Corridor 25
levers
building techniques and
materials 159, 160
inventions 594
science 928
Levroux 220
Lewis-Williams, David 833Lex Duodecim Tabularum
303, 304
lex frumentaria
agriculture 41
food and diet 480
Lex Oppia 13
Lex Poetelia Papiria 369
lex talionis
crime and punishment 299
laws and legal codes 624
Liangzhu culture 1003, 1004f
Lianyungang, China 216
libra (unit of weight) 1181
libraries 378
liburna 982
Libya
climate and geography 242
clothing and footwear 273
foreigners and barbarians
485
lice 548
life expectancy 545, 547, 550,
553
Life of Pericles (Plutarch) 916
lifestyle 194
lighthouses
illumination 591
seafaring and navigation
960
lighting. See illumination
lima beans 46
limes (earth rampart) 148
limestone
architecture 74
building techniques and
materials 158
climate and geography
243, 267
mining, quarrying, and
salt making 743, 750
Lindow Man 903, 903f
lineage systems 1011–1012
Linear A tablets
ceramics and pottery 183
language 617f
Linear B tablets
agriculture 35
ceramics and pottery 183
economy 363
war and conquest 1146
writing 1189
Linear Pottery culture 708
linen
clothing and footwear 274,
277, 279, 281
textiles and needlework
1075, 1077, 1081
linguistics
language 616, 619–620
science 935
lintels 155
liqu id 1180, 1181
literacy 376, 377
literature 639–675
Africa 639–643, 667–668
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