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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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structuralist approaches

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Interpretations which stress that human actions ate guided by beliefs and symbolic concepts, and that underlying these ate structures of thought which find expression in various ...

hunting and gathering

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Involves the systematic collection of vegetable foods, hunting of game, and fishing.

ochre

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Iron oxide or hematite. Color is commonly reddish-brown to yellow. Used as a natural pigment.

lacustrine deposits

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Lake sediments; usually fine laminated silts and clays.

macroevolution

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Large-scale evolution; the evolution of new species and higher taxa.

horizontal angle

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In mapping, the angle of sight measured on the level or horizontal plane.

slope distance

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In mapping the inclined distance (as opposed to true horizontal or vertical distance) between 2 points.

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