- Industry: Archaeology
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An artifact with a functional use. Curated tools are kept for use in the future, while expedient tools are made in response to an immediate need.
Industry:Archaeology
The genealogical relations between genes show that all of the extant varieties of a gene must have originated in a single gene; looking from the present to the past, we can say that they descend from a single form to which they coalesce.
Industry:Archaeology
The uppermost point in the margin of the auditory meatus; the point which, with the lowest point on the orbit, defines the Frankfort Horizontal.
Industry:Archaeology
A framework of beliefs relating to supernatural or superhuman beings or forces that transcend the everyday material world.
Industry:Archaeology
A special type of chromosome representing a bundle of numerous chromatids that have arisen by repeated cycles of replication of single chromatids without nuclear division. This type of chromosome is characteristic of various tissues of Diptera.
Industry:Archaeology
Mutations that alter the identity of particular segments, transforming them into copies of other segments.
Industry:Archaeology
A subdiscipline of anthropology concerned with the non-biological, behavioral aspects of society; i.e. the social, linguistic, and technological components underlying human behavior. Two important branches of cultural anthropology are ethnography (the study of living cultures) and ethnology (which attempts to compare cultures using ethnographic evidence). In Europe, it is referred to as social anthropology.
Industry:Archaeology
Symbolic association between a social group (e.g., a lineage or clan) and a kind of bird, plant, or natural phenomenon. In "classic" forms, a member of the social group has some special religious relationship (e.g., a food taboo) toward members of the natural species.
Industry:Archaeology
