- Industry: Archaeology
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Complex bone on the side and base of the cranium that includes the ear, mandibular joint, and a portion of the side of the braincase.
Industry:Archaeology
Streamlined glassy objects found in some soils that result from meteoric impacts that throw silicon-rich material into the upper atmosphere that fuses into a glass as it heats up during its return.
Industry:Archaeology
The piece of DNA-protein complex that is studied and analyzed. Each chromatin fragment reflects the general features of chromosomes but not the specifics of any individual chromosome.
Industry:Archaeology
A device for extracting columns of sediment from the ocean floor. Dates for the different layers are obtained by radiocarbon, archaeomagnetic, or uranium series methods.
Industry:Archaeology
A raised and thickened ridge at the back of the posterior temporalis muscle attachment, where the line marking the furthest backward extent of its fan-shaped fibers angles downward and forward.
Industry:Archaeology
An organism just after conception; for instance, in humans during the first eight weeks of in-utero development.
Industry:Archaeology
Interrupted enamel formation, leaving transverse lines, pits, or grooves visible on the enamel surface.
Industry:Archaeology
The internal occipital protuberance, or internal inion, where the transverse sulcus dividing the internal surface of the occiput into the cerebral fossa superiorly and the cerebellar fossae inferiorly, meets the internal occipital crest separating the left and right cerebellar fossae.
Industry:Archaeology
