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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 ...
The methods an animal uses to move. These may include such things as swimming, jumping, walking, brachiating, etc.
Industry:Anthropology
The modern Homo sapiens who appeared in Europe by 40,000 years ago. Their skeletons generally were lighter than the Neandertals who occupied Europe at that time. The Cro-Magnon had broad, small faces with pointed chins and high foreheads. They are the ancestors of modern Europeans.
Industry:Anthropology
The most advanced tool making tradition of the Neandertals. It was also shared by some other late archaic humans and early modern Homo sapiens. The Mousterian tradition was characterized by a progressive decrease in emphasis on core tools and a corresponding increase in the importance of flake tools--especially those made with the Levallois technique. The Mousterian tradition was sufficiently advanced over the earlier Acheulian Tradition from which it was derived to be placed into the Middle Paleolithic.
Industry:Anthropology
The most commonly used calendar system in the world today. It is based on the older Julian calendar of the late Roman Empire but more accurately corresponds to the solar year of 365. 2422 days. The Julian calendar year is 365. 25 days. This is inaccurate by approximately 11 minutes a year. The result is that the Julian calendar is out of sync by one day every 131 years. The Gregorian calendar fixed this problem by changing the rules for leap years. In the Julian system, a day is added to the end of February every 4 years. In the Gregorian system a year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4 unless it is divisible by 100 but not by 400. This eliminates leap years periodically in order to keep the calendar more synchronized with the solar year. The Gregorian calendar was named after Pope Gregory XIII who officially approved it in 1582 A. D. England and its colonies did not adopt it until 1752.
Industry:Anthropology
The most recent geological era, dating from about 65. 5 million years ago to the present. It is the era in which the mammals flourished. It began as the last dinosaurs became extinct, at the end of the Mesozoic Era. Most of the placental mammals and all of the primates evolved during the Cenozoic.
Industry:Anthropology
The most well known late archaic humans. They lived mostly in Europe and the Near East from 150,000 years ago or even earlier until at sometime after 28,000 years ago. There is an on-going debate as to whether they should be considered Homo sapiens or a distinct but related species. If they were members of our species, they were a different variety or race (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis). On the other hand, if they were different enough to be a distinct species, they should be considered to be Homo neanderthalensis.
Industry:Anthropology
Unusually elevated core body temperature resulting from fever or prolonged exposure to a hot environment. This can be a life threatening condition. See hypothermia.
Industry:Anthropology
Unusually low core body temperature resulting from prolonged exposure to a cold environment. This can be a life threatening condition. See hyperthermia.
Industry:Anthropology
Use of a relative dating method that measures somewhat irregular occurring natural phenomena that have been cross-dated with at least one chronometric technique so that the dates are somewhat comparable from sites in one region to another. Calibrated relative methods could be considered to be somewhere between ordinary relative methods and radiometric methods in terms of their ability to produce dates that closely approximate the actual date of a sample. Amino acid racemization and paleomagnetic dating are generally considered to be either chronometric or calibrated relative methods.
Industry:Anthropology
What the air temperature actually feels like to people. This varies with the relative humidity of the air. The higher the relative humidity, the higher the apparent temperature is even if the air temperature does not change because evaporation of sweat is progressively less efficient in cooling the body.
Industry:Anthropology
