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Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
A rock core or large flake that has been systematically worked by percussion flaking to an elongated oval biface shape with one pointed end and sharp edges on the sides. In profile, hand axes usually have a teardrop or leaf shape. Hand axes are diagnostic tools of the Acheulian tool tradition of Homo erectus after about 1. 5 million years ago. They continued to be made and used by early archaic humans. Very likely, they were multipurpose implements used for light chopping of wood, digging up roots and bulbs, butchering animals, and cracking bones.
Industry:Anthropology
A degenerative disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the joints and accompanying pain.
Industry:Anthropology
A presumed human "race" consisting of Europeans and other closely related people. The classification is based on the discredited typological model. The term "Caucasoid" was derived from the Caucasus Mountains on the southeast fringe of Europe between the Black and Caspian Seas. This region was once thought to be the homeland of Indo-Europeans.
Industry:Anthropology
A gene that can alter the expression of another gene in the phenotype of an individual.
Industry:Anthropology
A hypothesis to explain the origin of modern Homo sapiens. It proposes that modern people only evolved from archaic humans in Africa and that these new people expanded into Europe and Asia replacing all existing older populations. In other words, we all have relatively recent African ancestry. See regional continuity model and assimilation model.
Industry:Anthropology
A presumed human "race" consisting of Europeans and other closely related people. The classification is based on the discredited typological model. The term "Caucasoid" was derived from the Caucasus Mountains on the southeast fringe of Europe between the Black and Caspian Seas. This region was once thought to be the homeland of Indo-Europeans.
Industry:Anthropology
A bone or antler harpoon tip or point with a hole for attaching a rope. It is designed so that when the harpoon is thrust into the body of a large animal, the wooden shaft falls off. The hunter keep holds of the animal with the rope attached to the toggle-head harpoon point stuck in its body.
Industry:Anthropology
A calibrated relative or potentially chronometric dating technique based on counting annual silt deposits (i.e., varves) in former lakes resulting from the summer melt of glaciers. In Scandinavia, this geological clock has been used to date associated archaeological evidence from the melt years of the last ice age, which began its final retreat about 15,000 years ago.
Industry:Anthropology
現代のホモ ・ サピエンスの起源を説明する仮説。だけでアフリカの古風な人間から進化して、現代の人々 を提案して、すべての取り付けヨーロッパとアジアにこれらの新しい人々 を展開されている既存の古い個体を実行します。つまり、みんなが比較的最近のアフリカ人の家系であります。地方継続モデルと同化モデルを参照してください。
Industry:Anthropology
