Archaeology & Paleontology

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9 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Archaeology & Paleontology. They span 15 subdomains — sort by that column to group them, or click any subdomain to filter to it.

Abstraction	Subdomain	Description
Absolute dating	Archaeological and Geological Chronology	The estimation of an event or object's numerical age or calendar range rather than only its relative order.
Amino Acid Dating	Archaeological ChronologyAmino Acid Geochronology	A conditional age-inference method that reads time-sensitive stereochemical change in retained amino acids against a material and temperature history.
Appearance event ordination	BiochronologyQuantitative Stratigraphy	A quantitative biochronological method that infers a best-fit relative ordering of fossil taxa's first and last appearances from pairwise stratigraphic constraints, then calibrates that event sequence to numerical time.
Ethnoarchaeology	Archaeological Method	Ethnoarchaeology uses ethnographic observation of living material practices to infer how archaeological remains were produced and used.
Grit, not grass hypothesis	Vertebrate PaleontologyHypsodontyPaleoecology	The grit, not grass hypothesis is an evolutionary hypothesis that explains the evolution of high-crowned teeth, particularly in New World mammals.
Magnetic survey (archaeology)	Archaeological GeophysicsArchaeological Prospection	In archaeology, magnetic surveys are used to detect and map archaeological artefacts and features.
Punctuated gradualism	Evolutionary Paleobiology	An evolutionary tempo hypothesis in which a lineage shows long relative stasis interrupted by comparatively rapid morphological change without requiring branching speciation.
Savannah Hypothesis	PaleoanthropologyHuman EvolutionBipedalism	The savannah hypothesis (or savanna hypothesis) is a hypothesis that human bipedalism evolved as a direct result of human ancestors' transition from an arboreal lifestyle to one on the savannas.
Seriation	Archaeological Chronology	An archaeological method for inferring relative order from changing artifact-type occurrences or frequencies across assemblages.