- Branche: Archaeology
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Explanations of culture change (e.g. for state origins) which lays stress on a single dominant explanatory factor or "prime mover."
Industry:Archaeology
Portion of a bone that is linked to another bone through an intervening joint of cartilage.
Industry:Archaeology
The capacity of a nucleus to direct events through all the stages in development and therefore produce a normal adult.
Industry:Archaeology
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 common ancestor.
Industry:Archaeology
A backward extension of the cranial rear in the form of a protuberance bounded by the nuchal plane below, a shaft vertical face for the occiput behind, and a flat surface above (lambdoidal flattening). See also chignon.
Industry:Archaeology
A method of screening (sleving) excavated matrix in water so as to separate and recover small ecofacts andartifacts.
Industry:Archaeology
A thickening of the bone on all or part of the midline of the frontal or parietals where they meet sagittally, or both bones.
Industry:Archaeology
Extant humans and their unique ancestors and collateral relatives, extending back in time until the split with the line leading to chimpanzees (the closest living human relative).
Industry:Archaeology
Portion of the premaxilla extending from the nasal cavity to the incisor root sockets.
Industry:Archaeology
The case in which one allele is dominant to the other so that the phenotypic level of the heterozygote is essentially iindistinguishable from the homozygous dominant.
Industry:Archaeology
