- Branche: Archaeology
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A sedimentary rock formed by the cementation of very fine particles sich as mud or silt.
Industry:Archaeology
Approach which holds that science consists of theories about the empirical world, that its goal is to develop better theories, which is achieved by finding mistakes in existing theories, so that it is crucial that theories be falsifiable (vulnerable to error and open to testing). The approach, developed by Karl Popper, emphasizes the importance of testability as a component of scientific theories.
Industry:Archaeology
Marriage payments from the husband and his kin to the bride's kin. Characteristically these payments balance a transfer of rights over the wife's sexuality, work services, residence, fertility, and so on.
Industry:Archaeology
The male reproductive organ in a flowering plant that usually consists of a stalk, called a filament, bearing a pollen-producing anther.
Industry:Archaeology
Vertical portion of the mandible, extending from the corpus to the condyle.
Industry:Archaeology
A term describing a bacterium that contains a temperate phage in the prophage state. The bacterium is said to be lysogenic for that phage. On induction phage reproduction is initiated, progeny phages are produced, and the bacterial cell lyses.
Industry:Archaeology
Different cooperative strategies, usually for males and females.
Industry:Archaeology
Part of the parietal association complex that is posterior to the sensory region of the parietal lobe. The integration of sensory, motor, and cognitive actions, or cross-modal transfer, takes place in this area.
Industry:Archaeology
