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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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genealogical species
Archaeology; Human evolution
Species that are defined by common ancestry and are treated as distinct individuals with definite beginnings and ends.
fission-track dating
Archaeology; Human evolution
A dating method based on the operation of a radioactive clock, the spontaneous fission of anisotope of uranium present in a wide range of rocks and minerals. As with ...
occipitomastoid
Archaeology; Human evolution
A process, usually in the form of a crest, paralleling or straddling the occipitomastoid suture and separated from the most lateral paramastoid process, if there is one, by an ...
plasmid
Archaeology; Human evolution
An extrachromosomal genetic element consisting of double-stranded DNA that replicates autonomously from the host chromosome.
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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)