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Anthropology
The study of human beings and human ancestors through time. Focuses on relation to physical characteristics, environmental effects, social relations and culture. The science of humans.
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indirect percussion
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A technique for flaking stone artifacts by interposing a bone or antler punch between the hammer and the raw materials. Allows greater control than direct percussion flaking.
monophyletic taxon
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A taxon containing species that are all descended from the same single common ancestor.
prehensile tail
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A tail found in some new world monkeys that has the ability to grasp.
sidescan sonar
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A survey method used in underwater archaeology which provides the broadest view of the sea-floor. An acoustic emitter is towed behind a vessel and sends out sound waves in a ...
harem
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A subunit of a larger social group consisting of a male associated with two or more females.
prebendal system
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A system of ownership common in the centralized bureaucratic states that arose in china, mogul India, Peru, and the ottoman empire, in which land was temporarily assigned to ...
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