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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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mobiliary art
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term used for the portable art of the ice age, comprising engravings and carvings on small objects of stone, antler, bone, and ivory.
paleoindian
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term most frequently applied to early projectile point "cultures" of North America (e.g. Clovis, Folsom, Cody, etc. ).
cultural ecology
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term devised by Julian Steward to account for the dynamic relationship between human society and its environment, in which culture is viewed as the primary adaptive mechanism.
Neolithic Revolution
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term coined by v. G. Childe in 1941 to describe the origin and consequences of farming (i.e. The development of stock raising and agriculture), allowing the widespread ...
world system
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A term coined by the historian Waller stein to designate an economic unit, articulated by trade networks extending far beyond the boundaries of individual political units (nation ...
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- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)