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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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articular surface
Archaeology; Human evolution
Portion of a bone that is linked to another bone through an intervening joint of cartilage.
totipotency
Archaeology; Human evolution
The capacity of a nucleus to direct events through all the stages in development and therefore produce a normal adult.
homoplasy (parallelism)
Archaeology; Human evolution
The separate appearance of a feature with the same character state in two or more species that developed independently from a different character state of the feature in the last ...
olecranon process
Archaeology; Human evolution
A beak-like projection on the proximal end of the ulna, at the elbow, for articulation with the humerus and attachment of the triceps muscles.
quartz
Archaeology; Human evolution
A mineral composed of the elements silicon and oxygen (silicon dioxide) that occurs in multiple forms.
transcription terminator sequence (terminator)
Archaeology; Human evolution
A transcription regulatory sequence located at the distal end of a gene that signals the termination of transcription.
Sub-categories
- Archaeobotany (69)
- Archaeology tools (308)
- Artifacts (109)
- Dig sites (82)
- Evolution (16298)
- General archaeology (5791)
- Human evolution (26719)
- Palaeoethnobotany (26)
- Zooarchaeology (28)