- Branche: Archaeology
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A constantly recurring assemblage of artifacts assumed to be representative of a particular set of behavioral activities carried out at a particular place and time.
Industry:Archaeology
The uppermost part of the windpipe, the sphincter guarding the entrance to the trachea and functioning as the sound-producing organ of the throat.
Industry:Archaeology
The molecule that carries the genetic information (genes) in all organisms except the RNA viruses. It consists of two long polysugar-phosphate strands connected by base pairs connecting congruent bases out of a set of four, and twisted in a double helix.
Industry:Archaeology
A new approach advocated in the 1960s which argued for an explicitly scientific framework of archaeological method and theory, with hypotheses rigorously tested, as the proper basis for explanation rather than simply description.
Industry:Archaeology
A sex chromosome present in two copies in the homozygous sex and in one copy on the heterozygous sex.
Industry:Archaeology
A sex chromosome that when present is found in one copy in the heterogametic sex, along with an X chromosome, and is not present in the homogametic sex. Not all organisms with sex chromosomes have a Y chromosome.
Industry:Archaeology
A group of individuals geographically (and for humans also culturally) determined who share a common gene pool and varying combinations of distinguishing characteristics.
Industry:Archaeology
