- Industry: Archaeology
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In alliance theory, a marriage system involving indirect exchange.
Industry:Archaeology
The formation in flowering plants of megaspores and the production of the embryo sac (the female gametophyte).
Industry:Archaeology
The traces of wear on stone tools that is not visible without magnification. Such wear may be in the form of a retouch or polish.
Industry:Archaeology
A compound crest of bone running along the midline of the skull for attachment of enlarged temporalis muscles that meet along the midline.
Industry:Archaeology
A plain characterized by coarse grasses and scattered trees, often with seasonal rainfall.
Industry:Archaeology
in alliance thoery and Australian kinship studies, division of a society into two, four, or eight social categories through rules of descent and allaiance. Symmetrical rules of marital allaince, enjoining marriage with a member of one of the sections, are a normal accompaniment of such systems.
Industry:Archaeology
The formation in flowering plants of microspores in the anthers and the production of the male gametophyte (pollen), normally from diploid microsporocytes.
Industry:Archaeology
