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 termContributors in Archaeology
Archaeology > Human evolution 
nuchal line
Archaeology; Human evolution
Three lines that transversely cross the cranial rear. From lowest to highest they are: inferior nuchal line extends across the middle of the nuchal lane, separating the nuchal ...
mandibular groove
Archaeology; Human evolution
A groove extending down from the lower rim of the mandibular foramen or from just below it.
chi-square (X2) test
Archaeology; Human evolution
A statistical procedure that determines what constitutes a significant difference between observed results and results expected on the basis of a particular hypothesis; a ...
facultative heterochromatin
Archaeology; Human evolution
Chromatin that may become condensed throughout the cell cycle and may contain genes that areinactivated when the chromatin becomes condensed.
panmictic populations
Archaeology; Human evolution
One in which genotypes associate at random (i.e., with equal probabilities of mating between any two individuals of opposite sex).
autonomously replicating sequences (ARS elements)
Archaeology; Human evolution
Specific sequences (e.g., in baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that, when included as part of an extrachromosomal, circular DNA molecule, confer on that molecule the ...
Sub-categories
- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)