- Industry: Archaeology
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A time of increased female sexual activity, often accompanied by enhancement of visual or olfactory sexual signals, that occurs at and around the time of ovulation.
Industry:Archaeology
Extension of parts of one side of the brain beyond the corresponding parts on the other side.
Industry:Archaeology
The center of the tuberculum linearum, a protuberance of varying expression that develops where the superior nuchal lines meet at the sagittal plane. It is not necessarily what is called the external occipital protuberance (although this describes what it is) which occurs above it, at or below where the supreme nuchal lines meet at the midline.
Industry:Archaeology
The sex that has sex chromosomes of different types (e.g., XY) and therefore produces two kinds of gametes with respect to the sex chromosomes.
Industry:Archaeology
A backward-facing triangular form to the lateral-most part of the supraorbital torus. The apex is created by a prominent temporal ridge, and the torus is thicker at the trigone than it is more medially. To be distinguished from frontal trigone.
Industry:Archaeology
A method used in the analaysis of artifact composition which depends on the excitation of the nuclei of the atoms of a sample's various elements, when these are bombarded with slow neutrons. The method is accurate to about plus or minus 5 percent.
Industry:Archaeology
A tool that has two surfaces (faces) that heet to form a single edge that circumscribes the tool. Both faces usually contain flake scars that travel at least half-way across the face.
Industry:Archaeology
