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Archaeology
The scientific study of physical remains, whether monuments, artifacts or relics of past human life, cultures or activities.
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isotopic analysis
Archaeology; Human evolution
An important source of information on the reconstruction of prehistoric diets, this technique analyses the ratios of the principle isotopes preserved in human bone; in effect the ...
imaginal discs
Archaeology; Human evolution
In the Drosophila blastoderm, undifferentiated cells that will develop into adult tissue and organs.
catabolite repression (glucose effect)
Archaeology; Human evolution
The inactivation of an inducible bacterial operon in the presence of glucose even though the operon's inducer is present.
number of identified specimens (NISP)
Archaeology; Human evolution
A gross counting technique used in the quantification of animal bones. The method may rpoduce misleading results in assessing the relative abundance of different species, since ...
non-probabilistic sampling
Archaeology; Human evolution
A statistical sampling strategy which concentrates on sampling areas on the basis of intuition, historical documentation, or long field experience in the area.
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- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)