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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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closed corporate community
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A community that strongly emphasizes community identity and discourages outsiders from settling there by restricting land use to village members and prohibiting the sale or lease ...
jasper
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A colloquial term for some varieties of chert. Usually refers to dark red or dull-green, fine-grained, semi-translucent banded materials.
hunter-gatherers
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A collective term for the members of small-scale mobile or semi-sedentary societies, whose subsistence is mainly focused on hunting game and gathering wild plants and fruits; ...
subsurface detection
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A collective name lot a variety of remote sensing techniques operating at ground level, and including hosing (or bowsing), augering, magnetometer, and radar techniques.
toilet claw
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A claw found on the second toe of prosimians that functions in grooming.
Three Age System
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A classification system devised by c. J. Thomsen for the sequence of technological periods (stone, bronze, and iron) in old world prehistory. It established the principle that by ...
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- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)