- Branche: Archaeology
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Simple artifacts made on cores of stone, sometimes also applied to the cores themselves even when they are not used as tools per se.
Industry:Archaeology
The nerve fiber extending away from the nerve cell body to meet the axion of another nerve cell.
Industry:Archaeology
(1) A mode of descent reckoning where all descendants of an apical ancestor/ancestress through any combination of male or female links are included (2) Synonymous with bilateral or consanguineal as in "cognatic kinship".
Industry:Archaeology
A measure of the extent to which a feature is inherited; that proportion of variation of a trait in a population that is due to the variation of genotypes.
Industry:Archaeology
A term used in systems thinking to describe the process by which changes in one field of human activity (subsytem) sometimes act to promote changes in other fields (subsystems) and in turn act on the original subsytem itself. An instance of positive feedback, it is thought by some to be one of the primary mechanisms for societal change.
Industry:Archaeology
The basic building blocks of DNA, consisting of a sugar (deoxyribose), a base, and a phosphate.
Industry:Archaeology
The removal of a detached piece from an objective piece by pressing rather than by percussion.
Industry:Archaeology
