- Industry: Archaeology
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Rise in the level of the land relative to the sea caused by the relaxation of Ice Age conditions. It occurs when the weight of ice is removed as temperatures rise, and the landscape is raised to form raised breaches.
Industry:Archaeology
The facial bone that makes up the cheek corner and outer orbital pillar, and encloses the front part of the temporal fossa.
Industry:Archaeology
The texture of a rock with grains or crystals easily observed with the naked eye or over 0.75 mm in diameter.
Industry:Archaeology
A cloning vector that can replicate in two or more host organisms. Shuttle vectors are used for experiments in which recombinant DNA is to be introduced into organisms other than E. coli.
Industry:Archaeology
A particular place where individuals can expect to meet each other and engage in social and other activities.
Industry:Archaeology
An aberrant, aneuploid state in a normally diploid cell or organism in which there are three copies of a particular chromosome instead of two copies.
Industry:Archaeology
Rock formed as a result of the hardening of lava or magma (molten rock). Examples of igneous rock are obsidian, basalt, and rhyolite.
Industry:Archaeology
The female reproductive organ in a flowering plant that typically consists of the stigma, the style, and the ovary.
Industry:Archaeology
The theoretical frequency distribution of events that have two possible outcomes.
Industry:Archaeology
