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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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Rh blood-type system
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A blood-type system consisting of two major alleles. A mating between an rh - mother and rh + father may produce in the infant the hemolytic disease erythroblastosis fetalis.
secondary deposit
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A body of natural or cultural sediments which have been disturbed and re-transported since their original deposition.
labret
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A "cuff-link" or pulley-shaped object of stone, bone or wood, inserted in a perforation of the lower lip as an ornament or status symbol by some aboriginal peoples.
level bag
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A bag containing excavated materials from a single level of a single excavation unit.
purine
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A base found in nucleic acids that consists of two connected rings of carbon and nitrogen; in DNA and RNA, adenine and guanine.
systems thinking
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A method of formal analysis in which the object of study is viewed as comprising distinct analytical sub-units. Thus in archaeology, it comprises a form of explanation in which a ...
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- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)