A   abundant- more than enough, plentiful alluvial- related to clay, silt, sand, gravel or other material left by running water like a flood amino acid- organic acids of great biological importance because they combine together to form protein ancestry- a line of descent from ancestors leading from one's parents back through many generations of relatives anointed- rubbed with oil archeologist- a scientist who studies material remains of past human life artifact- simple objects of human workmanship Asiatic- Asian, related to things or people from Asia