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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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hunter-gatherers
Archaeology; Human evolution
Populations that live by hunting (and often scavenging dead) animals, gathering plant foods, insects and other small and relatively sedentary animals, and sharing the fruits of ...
corpus callosum
Archaeology; Human evolution
The bundle of neurons that connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
pentose sugar
Archaeology; Human evolution
A 5-carbon sugar that, along with a nitrogenous base and a phosphate group, is one of the three parts of a nucleotide, the building block of RNA and DNA.
contextual seriation
Archaeology; Human evolution
A method of relative dating pioneered by Flinders Petrie in the 19th century, in which artifacts are arranged according to the frequencies of their co-occurrence in specific ...
frontal keel or torus
Archaeology; Human evolution
A thickening of bone passing sagittally down the frontal squama from its top (posterior), forpart, most, or all of the squama's length.
monocausal explanation
Archaeology; Human evolution
Explanations of culture change (e.g. for state origins) which lays stress on a single dominant explanatory factor or "prime mover."
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- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
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- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)