- Branche: Archaeology
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A ligament extending from the styloid process on the cranial base to the hyoid bone.
Industry:Archaeology
A term coined by the historian Wallerstein to designate an economic unit, articulated by trade networks extending far beyond the boudaries of individual political units (nation states), and linking them together in a larger functioning unit.
Industry:Archaeology
Differences in successful reproduction, some individuals have more surviving offspring than others.
Industry:Archaeology
Part of a home range that is exclusive to a group of animals and is actively defended from other groups of the same species.
Industry:Archaeology
The alleles that do not have any effect on the phenotype of the quantitative trait.
Industry:Archaeology
The product of a theory derived from thermodynamics which demonstrates that order can arise spontaneously when systems are pushed far from an equilibrium state. The emergence of new structure arises at bifurcation points, or thresholds of instability.
Industry:Archaeology
A feature in two or more species that is the same because of descent, it evolved from the same feature in the last common ancestor of the species.
Industry:Archaeology
A sedimentary rock composed of particles or fragments of smaller rock or of organic materials.
Industry:Archaeology
Approach to the study of societies which assumes that thoughts and decisions do have agency, and that actions and shared institutions can be interpreted as the products of the decisions and actions of individuals.
Industry:Archaeology
