Home > Industry/Domain > Archaeology

Archaeology

The scientific study of physical remains, whether monuments, artifacts or relics of past human life, cultures or activities.

9Categories 49431Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Archaeology

Archaeology > Evolution

Bill Kimbel

Archaeology; Evolution

An anatomist, Kimbel worked with Don Johanson and assembled Lucy's skull fragments. In 1991, Kimbel and Yoel Rak found a 70 percent complete skeleton of Australopithecus ...

Brigitte Senut

Archaeology; Evolution

An anatomist at France's National Museum of Natural History. In 2000, Senut and Martin Pickford discovered Orrorin tugensis, a proto-hominid dated at 6 million years old.

genetic dominance

Archaeology; Evolution

An allele (A) is dominant if the phenotype of the heterozygote (Aa) is the same as the homozygote (AA). The allele (a) does not influence the heterozygote's phenotype and is ...

cholera

Archaeology; Evolution

An acute infectious disease of the small intestine, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae which is transmitted in drinking water contaminated by feces of a patient. After an ...

intelligence quotient (IQ)

Archaeology; Evolution

Usually defined as the mental age of an individual (as measured by standardized tests) divided by his or her real age and multiplied by 100. This formulation establishes the ...

Jean Lamarck

Archaeology; Evolution

An 18th-century naturalist, zoologist, and botanist noted for his study and classification of invertebrates, as well as his evolutionary theories. He traveled extensively ...

coelacanth

Archaeology; Evolution

Although long thought to have gone extinct about 65 million years ago, one of these deep-water, lungless fish was caught in the 1930s. Others have since been caught and filmed in ...