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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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surface collection
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Archaeological materials obtained from the ground surface.
surface scatter
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Archaeological materials found distributed over the ground surface.
in situ
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Archaeological items are said to be "in situ " when they are found in the location where they were last deposited.
refutationist view
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Approach which holds that science consists of theories about the empirical world, that its goal is to develop better theories, which is achieved by finding mistakes in existing ...
methodological individualism (or individualistic m
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Approach to the study of societies which assumes that thoughts and decisions do have agency, and that actions and shared institutions can be interpreted as the products of the ...
paradigmatic view
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Approach to science, developed by Thomas Kuhn, which holds that science develops from a set of assumptions (paradigm) and that revolutionary science ends with the acceptance of a ...
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)