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- 15:43, 24 August 2019 Zygotic mortality (hist) [239 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "zygotic mortality: a form of reproductive isolation in which fertilization occurs but development stops soon after preventing much of the warm blood from reaching the surface...")
- 15:43, 24 August 2019 Zygote (hist) [52 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "zygote: a fertilized ovum. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:43, 24 August 2019 Zygomatic arch (hist) [75 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "zygomatic arch: the "cheek" bone; an arch of bone on the side of the skull.")
- 15:42, 24 August 2019 Zuni (hist) [182 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Zuni: (sometimes written Zuñi) are a pueblo people whose modern-day reservation lands are in northwestern New Mexico. Zuni is also the name of the language spoken by tribal m...")
- 15:42, 24 August 2019 Zoomorphic (hist) [102 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "zoomorphic: "animal-like". refers to art-work or decorated objects with an animal motif or appearance.")
- 15:42, 24 August 2019 Zooarchaeology (hist) [106 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "zooarchaeology: the study of faunal remains found in archaeological sites and their cultural significance.")
- 15:42, 24 August 2019 Yolk sac (hist) [110 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "yolk sac: a sack formed from embryonic tissue in the amniote egg that contains yolk. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:41, 24 August 2019 Y-linked (hist) [84 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Y-linked: a term that refers to genes on the Y chromosome. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:41, 24 August 2019 Y-5 pattern (hist) [133 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Y-5 pattern: the pattern found on molars with five cusps separated by grooves, reminiscent of the letter Y. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:41, 24 August 2019 Y chromosome (hist) [168 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Y chromosome: the smaller of the two sex chromosomes. Normal females possess no Y chromosome; normal males possess one X and one Y chromosome. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:41, 24 August 2019 XTENT modeling (hist) [358 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "XTENT modeling: a method of generating settlement hierarchy, that overcomes the limitations of both central place theory and Thiessen polygons; it assigns territories to cente...")
- 15:41, 24 August 2019 X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (hist) [210 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF): a method used in the analysis of artifact composition, in which the sample is irradiated with a beam of X-rays which excite electrons as...")
- 15:40, 24 August 2019 X-ray diffraction analysis (hist) [269 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "X-ray diffraction analysis: a technique used in identifying minerals present in artifact raw materials; it can also be used in geomorphological contexts to identify particular...")
- 15:40, 24 August 2019 X-linked (hist) [84 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "X-linked: a term that refers to genes on the X chromosome. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:40, 24 August 2019 X chromosome (hist) [169 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "X chromosome: the larger of the two sex chromosomes. Normal females possess two X chromosomes; normal males possess one X and one Y chromosome. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:40, 24 August 2019 World system (hist) [256 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "world system: a term coined by the historian Wallerstein to designate an economic unit, articulated by trade networks extending far beyond the boundaries of individual politic...")
- 15:39, 24 August 2019 Worked (hist) [235 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "worked: A term used in projectile point descriptions which describes an area of an artifact that has been shaped or altered by man, such as the removal of flakes along a blade...")
- 15:39, 24 August 2019 Workday (hist) [124 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "workday: the culturally established number of hours that a person ideally spends at work each day. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:39, 24 August 2019 Woodland (hist) [273 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "woodland: A cultural period of the Eastern North American Aborigine Indians dating from 3,000 - 1,300 B.P. Usually, the presence of pottery differentiates the Woodland culture...")
- 15:39, 24 August 2019 Witchcraft (hist) [148 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "witchcraft: use of religious ritual to control, exploit, or injure unsuspecting, or at least uncooperating, other persons. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:39, 24 August 2019 Wisconsin(an) glaciation (hist) [165 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Wisconsin(an) glaciation: the latest major episode of glacial advance in the Pleistocene of North America; from about 70,000 to 10,000 B.P. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:37, 24 August 2019 Wheeler box-grid (hist) [269 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Wheeler box-grid: an excavation technique developed by Mortimer Wheeler from the work of Pitt-Rivers, involving the retaining of intact baulks of earth between excavation grid...")
- 15:37, 24 August 2019 Welded tuff (hist) [124 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "welded tuff: a rock formed of consolidated pumice or volcanic ash. Occasionally used as a raw material for lithic artifacts.")
- 15:37, 24 August 2019 Weir (hist) [99 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "weir: an aboriginal fish-trap based on a fence or barrier of stakes or rocks built across a stream.")
- 15:37, 24 August 2019 Weathering zone (hist) [80 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "weathering zone: in pedology, the depth to which soil processes are operational.")
- 15:36, 24 August 2019 Wealth (hist) [104 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "wealth: the accumulation of material objects that have value within a society. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:26, 24 August 2019 Volcanic ash (hist) [135 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "volcanic ash: layers of airborne pumice resulting from violent volcanic eruptions. Provide valuable dating markers when found in sites.")
- 15:26, 24 August 2019 Victoriapithecidae (hist) [126 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Victoriapithecidae: family of Early and Middle Miocene Old World monkeys from north and east Africa. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:26, 24 August 2019 Vibrissae (hist) [85 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vibrissae: tactile whiskers which are very sensitive to touch; found among prosimians")
- 15:25, 24 August 2019 Vertical provenience (hist) [167 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vertical provenience: the vertical position of objects within a site determined in relation to a vertical datum or datum plane, as well as to the local ground surface.")
- 15:25, 24 August 2019 Vertical distance (hist) [88 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vertical distance: the measurement of distance (or elevations) on a true vertical plane.")
- 15:25, 24 August 2019 Vertical datum (hist) [82 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vertical datum: a base measurement point from which all elevations are determined.")
- 15:25, 24 August 2019 Vertical circle (hist) [160 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vertical circle: with major surveying instruments, the graduated vertical table around which the sighting telescope rotates; used to measure the vertical angle.")
- 15:25, 24 August 2019 Vertical angle (hist) [78 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vertical angle: in mapping, the angle of sight measured on the vertical plane.")
- 15:24, 24 August 2019 Vertebrate (hist) [119 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vertebrate: a member of the subphylum Vertebrate; possesses a bony spine or vertebral column. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:24, 24 August 2019 Venus figurines (hist) [166 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Venus figurines: small Upper Paleolithic statues characterized by exaggerated breasts and buttocks and very stylized heads, hands, and feet. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:24, 24 August 2019 Ventral (hist) [85 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "ventral: the front or bottom side of an animal or artifact. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:24, 24 August 2019 Vein quartz (hist) [150 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vein quartz: A relatively pure type of quartz which is found in viens in areas of igneous rocks. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 15:24, 24 August 2019 Vector (hist) [212 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vector: An organism that carries parasites from animals to humans and between humans (i.e. mosquitos carry malaria, tsetse flies carry the trypanosome that causes sleeping sic...")
- 15:24, 24 August 2019 Vasodilation (hist) [181 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vasodilation: the opening up of the capillaries of the skin in response to warm temperatures, thus increasing the flow of blood to the surface of the body. Source: Anthromorp...")
- 15:23, 24 August 2019 Vasoconstriction (hist) [125 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "vasoconstriction: the constriction of the capillaries in the skin in response to cold temperatures. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:23, 24 August 2019 Varves (hist) [130 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "varves: fine layers of alluvium sediment deposited in glacial lakes. Their annual deposition makes them a useful source of dating.")
- 15:23, 24 August 2019 Varnas caste (hist) [98 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "varnas caste: groups in Hindu India associated with certain occupations. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:23, 24 August 2019 Variant (hist) [132 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "variant: A term used in projectile typology to describe a variation of a type. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 15:23, 24 August 2019 Variable (hist) [90 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "variable: any property that may be displayed in different forms. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:21, 24 August 2019 Utilized material (hist) [102 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "utilized material: pieces of stone that have been used without modification. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:21, 24 August 2019 Utilized flake (hist) [98 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "utilized flake: a stone flake used for a tool without deliberate retouch, but exhibiting use-wear.")
- 15:21, 24 August 2019 Use-wear (hist) [186 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "use-wear: polish, striations, breakage, or minor flaking which develop on a tool's edge during use. Microscopic examination and study of the wear may indicate the past functio...")
- 15:20, 24 August 2019 Urbanized society (hist) [100 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "urbanized society: a society in which a majority of people live in cities. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:20, 24 August 2019 Urbanization (hist) [154 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "urbanization: the proportionate rise in the number of people living in cities in comparison to the number living in rural areas. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:20, 24 August 2019 Uranium series dating (hist) [250 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "uranium series dating: a dating method based on the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium. It has proved particularly useful for the period before 50,000 years ago, which l...")
- 15:20, 24 August 2019 Uracil (hist) [60 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "uracil: a pyrimidine found in RNA. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:20, 24 August 2019 Unstructured interview (hist) [217 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unstructured interview: an ethnographic data-gathering technique usually used in the early stages of one's fieldwork in which interviewees are asked to respond to broad, open-...")
- 15:20, 24 August 2019 Unilineal evolution (hist) [175 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unilineal evolution: a pattern of cultural progress through a sequence of evolutionary stages; the basic premise of the early cultural evolutionists. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:18, 24 August 2019 Unilineal descent group (hist) [175 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unilineal descent group: a kin group in which membership is inherited only through either the paternal or the maternal line, as the society dictates. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:18, 24 August 2019 Uniformitarianism (hist) [189 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "uniformitarianism: the principle which states that physical forces working today to alter the earth were also in force and working in the same way in former times. Source: An...")
- 15:18, 24 August 2019 Unifacial flaking (hist) [92 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unifacial flaking: the removal of secondary flakes from only one surface of a stone nucleus.")
- 15:18, 24 August 2019 Uniface bevel (hist) [255 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "uniface bevel: A bevel which was formed by removing seep flakes from just one face of an edge. The opposing face may have a few flat flake scars of the primary flaking of scat...")
- 15:17, 24 August 2019 Uniface (hist) [53 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "uniface: a stone artifact flaked only on one surface.")
- 15:17, 24 August 2019 Unfluted (hist) [162 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unfluted: A term referring to projectile or tool which did not have a channel flake removed to form a flute. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 15:17, 24 August 2019 Unflaked (hist) [111 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unflaked: A face which was unaltered by applying flaking. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 15:17, 24 August 2019 Underwater reconnaissance (hist) [466 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "underwater reconnaissance: geophysical methods of underwater survey include (1) a proton magnetometer towed behind a survey vessel, so as to detect iron and steel objects whic...")
- 15:17, 24 August 2019 Unconformity (hist) [119 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unconformity: the surface of a stratum that represents a break in the stratigraphic sequence. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 15:16, 24 August 2019 Unbeveled (hist) [115 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "unbeveled: An edge which was not steeply flaked into a bevel. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 15:16, 24 August 2019 Ulu (hist) [86 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "ulu: an Eskimo word for a relatively large, semi-lunate, side-mounted "woman's knife".")
- 15:16, 24 August 2019 Ultrasound (hist) [98 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "ultrasound: a method of taking a picture of the fetus using sound waves. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:12, 23 August 2019 Typology (hist) [720 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "typology: the systematic organization of artifacts into types on the basis of shared attributes.")
- 21:12, 23 August 2019 Type (hist) [180 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "type: a distinctive formal artifact class defined by the consistent clustering of attributes and restricted in space and time, e.g. the "Folsom Point" is a projectile point "t...")
- 21:12, 23 August 2019 Tympanic membrane (hist) [57 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tympanic membrane: the eardrum. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:11, 23 August 2019 Twin studies (hist) [205 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "twin studies: comparisons of monozygotic twins to dizygotic twins for the purpose of estimating the degree of environmental versus genetic influence operating on a specific tr...")
- 21:11, 23 August 2019 Tuyere (hist) [59 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tuyere: a ceramic blowtube used in the process of smelting.")
- 21:11, 23 August 2019 Turner's syndrome (hist) [173 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Turner's syndrome: a genetic disease characterized by forty-five chromosomes with a sex chromosome count of X-; phenotypically female, but sterile. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:11, 23 August 2019 Tupaiidae (hist) [99 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tupaiidae: family of the order Insectivora that includes the tree shrews. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:09, 23 August 2019 True breeding (hist) [105 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "true breeding: showing the same traits without exception over many generations. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:09, 23 August 2019 True brachiation (hist) [218 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "true brachiation: a form of locomotion found in the lesser apes in which the body, suspended from above, is propelled by arm swinging as the animal rapidly moves hand-over-han...")
- 21:09, 23 August 2019 Tripolitic weathering (hist) [332 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tripolitic weathering: A severe form of patination where flint or chert seem to be transformed over a long period of time into a chalky, porous, crumbly or granular limestone....")
- 21:09, 23 August 2019 Tribe (hist) [455 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tribe: a descent and kinship-based group in which subgroups are clearly linked to one another, with the potential of uniting a large number of local groups for common defense...")
- 21:08, 23 August 2019 Triangular (hist) [165 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "triangular: A projectile, knife, preform or blade which has three sides or roughly has the shape of a triangle. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 21:08, 23 August 2019 Trephinations (hist) [138 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "trephinations: a form of cultural deformation which involves surgery; more specifically it refers to the removal of piece of cranial bone)")
- 21:08, 23 August 2019 Trend surface analysis (hist) [260 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "trend surface analysis: the aim of trend surface analysis is to highlight the main features of a geographic distribution by smoothing over some of the local irregularities. In...")
- 21:08, 23 August 2019 Tree-ring dating (hist) [167 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tree-ring dating: a chronometric dating method in which the age of a wood sample is determined by counting the number of annual growth rings. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:08, 23 August 2019 Travelers (hist) [227 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "travelers: hunter-gatherers who follow a regular yearly round, occupying a series of campsites for brief periods when a valued resource is available in the vicinity of each si...")
- 21:07, 23 August 2019 Transverse line (hist) [184 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transverse line: An imaginary line extending across the center of a projectile, halfway between the distal tip and the basal edge. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Te...")
- 21:07, 23 August 2019 Translocation (hist) [170 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "translocation: a form of chromosomal aberration in which segments of chromosomes become detached and reunite to other nonhomologous chromosomes. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:07, 23 August 2019 Transitional Paleo (hist) [213 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transitional Paleo: A cultural period of North American Aborigine Indians dating from 12,000 to 9,000 B.P. which occured between the Paleo and Archaic periods. Source: LITHIC...")
- 21:07, 23 August 2019 Transitional (hist) [175 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transitional: A term used to describe an artifact that was utilized and manufactured across two or more cultural periods. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 21:07, 23 August 2019 Transit (hist) [155 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transit: a sophisticated optical surveying instrument similar to an alidade, except that it is mounted directly on a tripod, rather than resting on a plane")
- 21:07, 23 August 2019 Transhumance (hist) [107 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transhumance: seasonal movement of livestock between upland and lowland pastures. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:06, 23 August 2019 Transformational rules (hist) [165 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transformational rules: according to transformational grammar, the techniques by which deep structure is translated into surface structure. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:06, 23 August 2019 Transformational grammar (hist) [166 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transformational grammar: Noam Chomsky's theory of linguistics, based on the fact that a single meaning may be expressed in different forms. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:06, 23 August 2019 Transformation (hist) [103 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transformation: a radiation change in morphology among homologous structures. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:06, 23 August 2019 Transfer RNA (hist) [147 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transfer RNA (tRNA): within the ribosome, a form of RNA that transports amino acids into the positions coded in the mRNA. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:06, 23 August 2019 Transect (hist) [33 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "transect: a linear sampling area.")
- 21:05, 23 August 2019 Trajectory (hist) [190 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "trajectory: in systems thinking, this refers to the series of successive states through which the system proceeds over time. It may be said to represent the long-term behavior...")
- 21:05, 23 August 2019 Trait (hist) [96 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "trait: any discrete cultural element; or, one aspect of the phenotype. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:05, 23 August 2019 Tradition (hist) [110 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tradition: The temporal range of a culture or attribute. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 21:05, 23 August 2019 Trace element analysis (hist) [297 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "trace element analysis: the use of chemical techniques, such as neutron activation analysis, or X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, for determining the incidence of trace element...")
- 21:05, 23 August 2019 Township (hist) [94 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "township: a square area, containing 36 sections; a major unit of the legal subdivision system.")
- 21:04, 23 August 2019 Totem (hist) [181 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "totem: a plant or animal whose name is adopted by a clan and that holds a special significance for its members, usually related to their mythical ancestry. Source: Anthromorp...")
- 21:04, 23 August 2019 Topographic map (hist) [92 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "topographic map: a map which accurately depicts the physical features and relief of an area.")
- 21:03, 23 August 2019 Tool kit (hist) [154 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tool kit: The set of all weapons and tools that was created and used by a person or group of people. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 21:03, 23 August 2019 Tool (hist) [99 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tool: an object that appears to have been created for a specific purpose. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:03, 23 August 2019 Toilet claw (hist) [111 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "toilet claw: a claw found on the second toe of prosimians that functions in grooming. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:03, 23 August 2019 Tipi (hist) [76 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tipi: a relatively large conical skin and pole tent used in the Plains area.")
- 21:02, 23 August 2019 Thymine (hist) [77 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thymine: a pyrimidine found in RNA; a codon of DNA. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:02, 23 August 2019 Three Age System (hist) [263 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Three Age System: a classification system devised by C. J. Thomsen for the sequence of technological periods (stone, bronze, and iron) in Old World prehistory. It established...")
- 21:02, 23 August 2019 Threat gesture (hist) [195 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "threat gesture: a physical activity used by one animal to threaten another animal. Some threat gestures are staring, shaking a branch, and lunging toward another animal. Sour...")
- 21:02, 23 August 2019 Thin-section analysis (hist) [193 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thin-section analysis: a technique whereby microscopic thin sections are cut from a stone object or potsherd and examined with a petrological microscope to determine the sourc...")
- 21:01, 23 August 2019 Thinning (hist) [253 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thinning: Decreasing the thickness of an artifact, or a portion of an artifact by extensive flaking. Basal Thinning refers to the removal of thickness from the hafting area by...")
- 21:01, 23 August 2019 Thiessen polygons (hist) [393 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Thiessen polygons: a formal method of describing settlement patterns based on territorial divisions centered on a single site; the polygons are created by drawing straight lin...")
- 21:01, 23 August 2019 Thickness (hist) [106 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thickness: A measurement take at the thickest point. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 21:01, 23 August 2019 Thermoluminescence dating (hist) [376 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thermoluminescence dating (TL): a chronometric dating method based on the fact that some materials, when heated, give off a flash of light. The intensity of the light is propo...")
- 21:01, 23 August 2019 Thermography (hist) [223 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thermography: a non-photographic technique which uses thermal or heat sensors in aircraft to record the temperature of the soil surface. Variations in soil temperature can be...")
- 21:00, 23 August 2019 Thermal prospection (hist) [237 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thermal prospection: a remote sensing method used in aerial reconnaissance. It is based on weak variations in temperature which can be found above buried structures whose ther...")
- 21:00, 23 August 2019 Therian mammals (hist) [150 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "therian mammals: members of the subclass Theria; the "live-bearing" mammals, including the marsupials and placental mammals. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 21:00, 23 August 2019 Theory of acquired characteristics (hist) [224 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "theory of acquired characteristics: the concept, popularized by Lamarck, that traits gained during a lifetime can then be passed on to the next generation by genetic means; co...")
- 21:00, 23 August 2019 Theory (hist) [202 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "theory: a step in the scientific method in which a statement is generated on the basis of highly confirmed hypotheses and is used to generalize about conditions not yet tested...")
- 21:00, 23 August 2019 Theodolite (hist) [111 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "theodolite (also "optical transit"): a transit with accurate optical readout of vertical and horizontal angles.")
- 21:00, 23 August 2019 Theism (hist) [82 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "theism: belief in one or more gods of extrahuman origin. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:59, 23 August 2019 Thalassemia (hist) [333 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thalassemia: the absence or reduction of alpha- or beta-chain synthesis in hemoglobin. The homozygous condition (thalassemia major) is characterized by a high frequency of hem...")
- 20:59, 23 August 2019 Testosterone (hist) [59 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "testosterone: a male sex hormone. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:59, 23 August 2019 Test pit (hist) [138 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "test pit (also "test excavation"): a small exploratory "dig" designed to determine a site's depth, and contents prior to major excavation.")
- 20:59, 23 August 2019 Test excavation (hist) [224 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "test excavation: Subsurface excavations in areas which are either defined as sites based on surface artifacts or thought to contain buried deposits based on the landform. Sou...")
- 20:59, 23 August 2019 Tesseera (hist) [207 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tesseera: a small tablet (as of wood, bone, or ivory) used by the ancient Romans as a ticket, tally, voucher, or means of identification; or, a small piece (as of marble, glas...")
- 20:58, 23 August 2019 Territory (hist) [107 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "territory: an area that a group defends against other members of its own species. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:58, 23 August 2019 Terrestrial (hist) [52 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "terrestrial: ground-living Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:57, 23 August 2019 Terms of reference (hist) [138 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "terms of reference: the terms by which people refer to their kin when they speak about them in the third person. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:57, 23 August 2019 Terms of address (hist) [102 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "terms of address: the terms people use when they address their kin directly. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:57, 23 August 2019 Termite stick (hist) [110 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "termite stick: a tool made and used by chimpanzees for collecting termites for food. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:56, 23 August 2019 Tephra (hist) [243 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tephra: volcanic ash. In the Mediterranean, for example, deep-sea coring produced evidence for the ash fall from the eruption of Theta, and its stratigraphic position provided...")
- 20:56, 23 August 2019 Tent-ring (hist) [99 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tent-ring: a circle of rocks used to hold down the edges of an aboriginal tent (e.g. "tipi-rings").")
- 20:56, 23 August 2019 Temporonuchal crest (hist) [125 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "temporonuchal crest: a crest on the back of the skull, forming on the occipital and temporal bones. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:56, 23 August 2019 Temporomandibular joint (hist) [139 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "temporomandibular joint: the joint formed at the point of articulation of the mandible and the base of the skull. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:56, 23 August 2019 Temporalis (hist) [118 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "temporalis: a muscle of chewing that arises on the jaw and inserts on the side of the skull. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:55, 23 August 2019 Temper (hist) [194 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "temper: materials added to clay in the manufacture of ceramic artifacts, to prevent cracking during firing. Could include vegetal fibers, feathers, rock fragments, sand, or gr...")
- 20:55, 23 August 2019 Telocentric chromosome (hist) [132 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "telocentric chromosome: a chromosome in which the centromere is located at the very end of the chromosome. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:55, 23 August 2019 Tell (hist) [123 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tell: a Near Eastern term that refers to a mound site formed through successive human occupation over a very long timespan.")
- 20:55, 23 August 2019 Tectonic plate (hist) [71 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tectonic plate: a segment of the lithosphere. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:54, 23 August 2019 Tectonic movements (hist) [161 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tectonic movements: displacements in the plates that make up the earth's crust, often responsible for the occurrence of raised beaches. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:54, 23 August 2019 Tay-Sachs disease (hist) [144 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tay-Sachs disease: an enzyme deficiency of lipid metabolism inherited as a recessive; causes death in early childhood. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:54, 23 August 2019 Taxonomy (hist) [132 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "taxonomy: the scientific naming of organisms and their classification based on evolutionary relationships. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:54, 23 August 2019 Tarsiidae (hist) [95 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tarsiidae: suborder of the order Primates consisting of the tarsiers. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 20:54, 23 August 2019 Tang (hist) [139 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tang: A projection that extends from the base or stem of a point, also known as ears. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 20:53, 23 August 2019 Tactile pads (hist) [150 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "tactile pads: the tips of the fingers and toes of primates; area richly endowed by tactile nerve endings sensitive to touch. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:35, 23 August 2019 Systems thinking (hist) [436 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "systems thinking: a method of formal analysis in which the object of study is viewed as comprising distinct analytical sub-units. Thus in archaeology, it comprises a form of e...")
- 19:35, 23 August 2019 Systematic sampling (hist) [298 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "systematic sampling: a form of probabilistic sampling employing a grid of equally spaced locations; e.g. selecting every other square. This method of regular spacing runs the...")
- 19:35, 23 August 2019 System of meaning (hist) [165 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "system of meaning: a set of relationships between one group of variables (like words, behaviors, physical symbols, etc.) and the meanings which are attached to them.")
- 19:34, 23 August 2019 System (hist) [130 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "system: a series of interrelated parts wherein a change in one part brings about changes in all parts. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:34, 23 August 2019 Synthetic theory of evolution (hist) [254 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "synthetic theory of evolution: the theory of evolution that fuses Darwin's concept of natural selection with information from the fields of genetics, mathematics, embryology,...")
- 19:34, 23 August 2019 Syntax (hist) [86 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "syntax: the arrangement of words into meaningful utterances. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:34, 23 August 2019 Synostosis (hist) [167 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "synostosis: the joining of separate pieces of bone in human skeletons; the precise timing of such processes is an important indicator of age. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:34, 23 August 2019 Syndrome (hist) [84 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "syndrome: a complex of symptoms related to a single cause. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:33, 23 August 2019 Synchronic studies (hist) [139 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "synchronic studies: rely on research that does not make use of or control for the effects of the passage of time. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:33, 23 August 2019 Synchronic (hist) [178 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "synchronic: referring to phenomena considered at a single point in time; i.e. an approach which is not primarily concerned with change (cf. diachronic). Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:33, 23 August 2019 Synapsids (hist) [99 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "synapsids: the reptilian group from which the mammals ultimately emerged. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:33, 23 August 2019 Symphyseal face (hist) [123 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "symphyseal face: the surface of the pubis where one pubis joins the other at the pubic symphysis. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:33, 23 August 2019 Sympatric species (hist) [177 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sympatric species: different species that live in the same area but are prevented from successfully re-producing by a reproductive isolating mechanism. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:33, 23 August 2019 Symmetry analysis (hist) [413 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "symmetry analysis: a mathematical approach to the analysis of decorative style which claims that patterns can he divided into two distinct groups or symmetry classes: 17 class...")
- 19:32, 23 August 2019 Symbol (hist) [304 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "symbol: something that can represent something distant from it in time and space. Any word, gesture or object which stands for or expresses something else is a symbol. Thus, a...")
- 19:32, 23 August 2019 Sweating (hist) [177 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sweating: the production of a fluid, sweat, by the sweat glands of the skin. The evaporation of the sweat from the skin leads to a cooling of the body. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:32, 23 August 2019 Suspensory behavior (hist) [135 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "suspensory behavior: a form of locomotion and posture whereby animals suspend themselves underneath a branch. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:32, 23 August 2019 Surveying (hist) [204 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "surveying: (1) in archaeology, the process of locating archaeological sites. (2) more generally, the process of mapping and measuring points on the ground surface (e.g. "legal...")
- 19:32, 23 August 2019 Survey area (hist) [76 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "survey area: the region within which archaeological sites are to be located.")
- 19:32, 23 August 2019 Surface survey (hist) [442 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "surface survey: two basic kinds can be identified: (1) unsystematic and (2) systematic. The former involves field-walking, i.e. scanning the ground along one's path and record...")
- 19:31, 23 August 2019 Surface structure (hist) [102 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "surface structure: the particular arrangement of words that we hear or read. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:31, 23 August 2019 Surface scatter (hist) [84 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "surface scatter: archaeological materials found distributed over the ground surface.")
- 19:30, 23 August 2019 Surface finish (hist) [100 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "surface finish: in the study of ceramic artifacts, the mainly decorative outer elements of a vessel.")
- 19:30, 23 August 2019 Surface collection (hist) [78 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "surface collection: archaeological materials obtained from the ground surface.")
- 19:29, 23 August 2019 Superorganic (hist) [170 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "superorganic: while the organic nature of humans may limit social life, such nature does not determine life as such. Superorganic factors must also be taken into account.")
- 19:29, 23 August 2019 Supernatural beliefs (hist) [133 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "supernatural beliefs: a set of beliefs found in all societies that transcend the natural, observable world. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:29, 23 August 2019 Sugar quartz (hist) [249 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sugar quartz: Also known as Quartzite, a granular low grade form of light brownish quartz used in the production of some point types, especially in areas where flint or cherts...")
- 19:28, 23 August 2019 Subsurface detection (hist) [190 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "subsurface detection: a collective name lot a variety of remote sensing techniques operating at ground level, and including hosing (or bowsing), augering, magnetometer, and ra...")
- 19:28, 23 August 2019 Substantivism (hist) [166 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "substantivism: a school of economic anthropology that seeks to understand economic processes as the maintenance of an entire cultural order. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:28, 23 August 2019 Subsistence pattern (hist) [111 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "subsistence pattern: the basic means by which a human group extracted and utilized energy from its environment.")
- 19:28, 23 August 2019 Submetacentric chromosome (hist) [155 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "submetacentric chromosome: a chromosome in which the centromere lies to one side of the center, producing arms of unequal length. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:28, 23 August 2019 Subera (hist) [125 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "subera: a division of an era. The Cenozoic is divided into two suberas, the Tertiary and Quatemary. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:28, 23 August 2019 Subcutaneous fat (hist) [77 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "subcutaneous fat: the fat deposited under the skin. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:27, 23 August 2019 Style (hist) [296 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "style: according to the art historian, Ernst Gombrich, style is "any distinctive and therefore recognizable way in which an act is performed and made." Archaeologists and anth...")
- 19:27, 23 August 2019 Structured interview (hist) [165 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "structured interview: an ethnographic data-gathering technique in which large numbers of respondents are asked a set of specific questions. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:27, 23 August 2019 Structuralist approaches (hist) [435 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "structuralist approaches: interpretations which stress that human actions are guided by beliefs and symbolic concepts, and that underlying these ate structures of thought whic...")
- 19:27, 23 August 2019 Structuralism (hist) [247 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "structuralism: a theory that argues that the organization of culture and society can be related to some universal features of the workings of the human mind. This theory is mo...")
- 19:27, 23 August 2019 Structural gene (hist) [112 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "structural gene: a segment of DNA that codes for a polypeptide other than a regulator. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:26, 23 August 2019 Structural functionalism (hist) [404 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "structural functionalism: a form of functionalism that stresses the interconnections between social institutions, e.g. how the family structures of a society relate to the way...")
- 19:26, 23 August 2019 Striking platform (hist) [244 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "striking platform: A prepared basal edge of a projectile point. This edge is beveled to a degree of pitch that will allow a drift to be set at the proper angle to strike off a...")
- 19:25, 23 August 2019 Stratosphere (hist) [158 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stratosphere: the part of the atmosphere 20 to 50 kilometers (12 to 31 miles) above the earth's surface; the area where ozone forms. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:25, 23 August 2019 Stratigraphy (hist) [291 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stratigraphy: the study and validation of stratification; the analysis in the vertical, time dimension, of a series of layers in the horizontal, space dimension. It is often u...")
- 19:25, 23 August 2019 Stratified systematic sampling (hist) [218 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stratified systematic sampling: a form of probabilistic sampling which combines elements of (1) simple random sampling, (2) stratified random sampling, and (3) systematic samp...")
- 19:25, 23 August 2019 Stratified society (hist) [126 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stratified society: a society in which extensive subpopulations are accorded differential treatment. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:25, 23 August 2019 Stratified sample (hist) [214 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stratified sample: a sample obtained by the process of dividing a population into categories representing distinctive characteristics and then selecting a random sample from e...")
- 19:24, 23 August 2019 Stratified random sampling (hist) [346 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stratified random sampling: a form of probabilistic sampling in which the region or site is divided into natural zones or strata such as cultivated land and forest; units ate...")
- 19:23, 23 August 2019 Strata (hist) [235 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "strata: (1) depositional units or layers of sediment distinguished by composition or appearance. (singular: "stratum"), (2) individually sampled subareas in a "stratified-rand...")
- 19:23, 23 August 2019 Storage-pit (hist) [154 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "storage-pit (also called cache-pits): circular excavations usually less than 3 m in diameter assumed to have aboriginally functioned as storage "cellars".")
- 19:23, 23 August 2019 Stone boiling (hist) [289 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stone boiling: A type of cooking that is done by heating stones in an open fire and then placing themin the liquid or substance to be cooked. This is often done in baskets or...")
- 19:22, 23 August 2019 Stimulus free (hist) [165 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stimulus free: refers to human language; means that what we convey is not dependent on our immediate circumstances or what we are experiencing in the present moment.")
- 19:22, 23 August 2019 Stereoscopic vision (hist) [232 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stereoscopic vision: visual perception of depth; this is due in part to binocular vision and because visual stimuli transmitted from each eye goes to both brain hemispheres (n...")
- 19:22, 23 August 2019 Stereoscope (hist) [137 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stereoscope: a simple optical device to allow the perception of a stereoscopic (or 3-dimensional) image from pairs of aerial photographs.")
- 19:22, 23 August 2019 Step-trenching (hist) [183 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "step-trenching: an excavation method employed on very deep sites, such as Near Eastern tell sites, in which the excavation proceeds downwards in a series of gradually narrowin...")
- 19:22, 23 August 2019 Step fracture (hist) [238 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "step fracture: A vertical upstep where the distal end of a blade or flake broke from the parent material. Such a flake scar is indicative of a well executed form of percussion...")
- 19:21, 23 August 2019 Stemmed point (hist) [149 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stemmed point: A projectile or blade that has a stem which was designed for hafting or holding. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 19:21, 23 August 2019 Stem (hist) [195 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stem: The extension of the base of a projectile point or knife which was designed for hafting or gripping. Stems can occur in various shapes. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of...")
- 19:21, 23 August 2019 Stela (hist) [58 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stela (pl. stelae): a free-standing carved stone monument.")
- 19:21, 23 August 2019 Steep bevel (hist) [177 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "steep bevel: A bevel of a blade edge or stem edge which was flaked at a steep (> 40 degree) angle to the plane of the face. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 19:21, 23 August 2019 Steatopygia (hist) [328 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "steatopygia: Extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women, as among the Hottentots, Bushmen, and certain other South African peoples. Source: I....")
- 19:21, 23 August 2019 Steatite (hist) [81 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "steatite: soapstone or talc; a soft gray to green stone used as a carving medium.")
- 19:20, 23 August 2019 Status (hist) [81 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "status: a position in a pattern of reciprocal behavior. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:20, 23 August 2019 Statistical analysis (hist) [117 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "statistical analysis: the application of probability theory to quantified descriptive data. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:20, 23 August 2019 State Archaeologist (hist) [306 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "State Archaeologist: An appointed official who is responsible for overseeing all potential impacts to archaeological resources and for reviewing and administering all archaeol...")
- 19:20, 23 August 2019 State (hist) [360 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "state: a term used to describe a social formation defined by distinct territorial boundedness, and characterized by strong central government in which the operation of politic...")
- 19:20, 23 August 2019 Standing wave technique (hist) [93 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "standing wave technique: an acoustic method, similar to bosing, used in subsurface detection.")
- 19:20, 23 August 2019 Standard deviation (hist) [233 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "standard deviation: a statistical measurement of the amount of variation in a series of determinations; the probability of the real number's falling within plus or minus one s...")
- 19:19, 23 August 2019 Stage (hist) [179 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stage: A complex developmental unit encompassing a broad span of time, wide spread of cultural unity, and cultural sequences. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Termino...")
- 19:19, 23 August 2019 Stadia rod (hist) [238 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stadia rod (also "surveyor's staff'): a long brightly painted rod, accurately calibrated in metric units (or feet and inches), used for obtaining elevations and stadia measure...")
- 19:19, 23 August 2019 Stability (hist) [109 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "stability: the ability of an ecosystem to return to equilibrium after disturbances. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:19, 23 August 2019 Spontaneous generation (hist) [155 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spontaneous generation: an old and incorrect idea that complex life forms could be spontaneously created from nonliving material. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:19, 23 August 2019 Spokeshave (hist) [114 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spokeshave: an artifact with a notch or concave edge, presumed to have been used in shaping wooden or bone shafts.")
- 19:19, 23 August 2019 Spirit possession (hist) [140 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spirit possession: the supposed control of a person's behavior by a supernatural spirit that has entered the body. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:18, 23 August 2019 Spindle (hist) [133 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spindle: a structure consisting of fibers radiating out from the centriole that functions in cell division. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:18, 23 August 2019 Spheres of exchange (hist) [181 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spheres of exchange: the modes of exchange-- reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange-- that apply to particular goods or in particular situations. Source: Anthromorp...")
- 19:18, 23 August 2019 Spermatogenesis (hist) [60 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spermatogenesis: sperm production. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:18, 23 August 2019 Sperm (hist) [47 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sperm: a male gamete. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:18, 23 August 2019 Speech community (hist) [200 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "speech community: a socially distinct group that develops a dialect; a variety of language that diverges from the national language in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar....")
- 19:17, 23 August 2019 Speciation (hist) [223 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "speciation: the evolutionary process that is said to occur when two previous subspecies (of the same species) are no longer capable of successful interbreeding; they are then...")
- 19:17, 23 August 2019 Specialized trait (hist) [89 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "specialized trait: a structure used basically for one function. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:17, 23 August 2019 Specialized species (hist) [150 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "specialized species: a species closely fit to a specific environment and able to tolerate little change in that environment. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:17, 23 August 2019 Specialized pastoralism (hist) [115 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "specialized pastoralism: the adaptive strategy of exclusive reliance on animal husbandry. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:17, 23 August 2019 Specialization (hist) [127 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "specialization: the limited range of activities in which a single individual is likely to be engaged. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:16, 23 August 2019 Spear point (hist) [156 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spear point: An large projectile that was probably designed to be hafted onto a long, hand held shaft. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 19:16, 23 August 2019 Spalls (hist) [105 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "spalls: The unused flakes left from flint knapping. Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology")
- 19:16, 23 August 2019 Sororate (hist) [188 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sororate: a social custom under which a widower has the right to marry one of his deceased wife's sisters, and her kin are obliged to provide him with a new wife. Source: Ant...")
- 19:16, 23 August 2019 Sorcery (hist) [116 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sorcery: the performance of certain magical rites for the purpose of harming other people. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:15, 23 August 2019 Somatic (hist) [66 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "somatic: a term that refers to the body. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:14, 23 August 2019 Soil-sounding radar (hist) [182 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "soil-sounding radar: a method of subsurface detection in which short radio pulses are sent through the soil, such that the echoes reflect back significant changes in soil cond...")
- 19:14, 23 August 2019 Soil-sieves (hist) [137 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "soil-sieves: small, precision metal screens, used for determining the proportions of different sized particles in a soil sediment sample.")
- 19:14, 23 August 2019 Soil-sample (hist) [104 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "soil-sample: a quantity of soil, site matrix, or sediments collected for physical, or chemical analysis.")
- 19:14, 23 August 2019 Soil texture (hist) [87 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "soil texture: the relative proportion of clay, silt and sand sized particles in a soil.")
- 19:13, 23 August 2019 Soil resistivity (hist) [285 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "soil resistivity: a method of subsurface detection which measures changes in conductivity by passing electrical current through ground soils. This is generally a consequence o...")
- 19:13, 23 August 2019 Sociology (hist) [175 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sociology: the formal study of how humans behave in groups. Sociology tends to focus on how human groups originate, how they are organized, and how they relate to one another.")
- 19:13, 23 August 2019 Sociolinguistics (hist) [190 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sociolinguistics: a branch of anthropological linguistics that studies how language and culture are related and how language is used in different social contexts. Source: A...")
- 19:13, 23 August 2019 Sociocultural anthropology (hist) [177 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sociocultural anthropology: a branch of anthropology that deals with variations in patterns of social interaction and differences in cultural behavior. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:13, 23 August 2019 Sociobiology (hist) [95 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "sociobiology: the study of the biological control of social behavior. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:12, 23 August 2019 Society (hist) [147 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "society: a group of interacting people who share a geographical region, a sense of common identity, and a common culture. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:12, 23 August 2019 Socialization (hist) [349 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "socialization: the process by which a person acquires the technical skills of his or her society, the knowledge of the kinds of behavior that are understood and acceptable in...")
- 19:12, 23 August 2019 Social stratification (hist) [128 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social stratification: the ranking of subgroups in a society according to wealth, power, and prestige. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:12, 23 August 2019 Social pressure (hist) [163 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social pressure: a means of social control in which people who venture over the boundaries of society's rules are brought back into line. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:12, 23 August 2019 Social norm (hist) [68 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social norm: an expected form of behavior. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:11, 23 August 2019 Social mobility (hist) [116 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social mobility: the ability of people to change their social position within the society. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:10, 23 August 2019 Social intelligence (hist) [212 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social intelligence: the knowledge and images that originate in an individual's brain and that are transferred by speech land in the last 5,000 years, by writing to the brains...")
- 19:10, 23 August 2019 Social division of labor (hist) [145 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social division of labor: the process by which a society is formed by the integration of its smaller groups or subsets. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:10, 23 August 2019 Social control (hist) [101 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social control: a framework of rewards and sanctions that channel behavior. Source: Anthromorphemics")
- 19:09, 23 August 2019 Social class (hist) [282 bytes] Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "social class: a category of people who have generally similar educational histories, job opportunities, and social standing and who are conscious of their membership in a soci...")