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A dating method based on the operation of a radioactive clock, the spontaneous fission of anisotope of uranium present in a wide range of rocks and minerals. As with potassium-argon dating, with whose time rangeit overlaps, the method gives useful dates from rocks adjacent to archaeological material.
Industry:Archaeology
A process, usually in the form of a crest, paralleling or straddling the occipitomastoid suture and separated from the most lateral paramastoid process, if there is one, by an occipital grove. See juxtamastoid eminence.
Industry:Archaeology
An extrachromosomal genetic element consisting of double-stranded DNA that replicates autonomously from the host chromosome.
Industry:Archaeology
In systems thinking, this refers to the series of successive states though which the system proceeds oevr time. It may be said to represent the long-term behavior of the system.
Industry:Archaeology
The hypothesis, based on Beadle and Tatum's studies in biochemical genetics, that each gene controls the synthesis of one enzyme.
Industry:Archaeology
Those processes affecting the way in which archaeological materials came to be buried, and theirsubsequent history afterwards. Cultural formation processes include the deliberate or accidental activities of humans;natural formation processes refer to natural or environmental events which govern the burial and survival of thearchaeological record.
Industry:Archaeology
A geographically defined aggregate of local populations which differs with various degrees of significance (depending on the author) from other such subdivisions of the species.
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A statistical measure of how values vary from the mean. See also standard deviation.
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