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| the subfield of anthro that studies both human biological evolution and and contemporary racial variations among peoples of the world |
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| The study of human evolution through fossil remains. |
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| The Study of non human primates in thier natural enviroments for the purpose of gainng inights into the human evolutionary process. |
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| a subgroup of the human population whose members share a greater number of physical traist with one another than they do with member of other subgroups |
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| The study of inherited physical traits |
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| The Study of the interrelationship between population characteristics and enviroments |
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| The study of occurence, distribution, and control of disease in populations. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that focuses on the study of prehistoric and historic cultures through the excavating of material remains |
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| A type of material remain (found by archaeologists) that has been made or modified by humans, such as tools arrowheads, and so on. |
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| Archaeologists remains that have been made or modifeid by people and cannot easily be carried away, such as house foundations, fireplaces, and post holes. |
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| physical remains-found by archaeologists- that were used by humans not made or reworked by them (seeds and bones) |
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| cultural resource managment |
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| A form of applied times excavating sites before the construction of roads, dams, and buildings. |
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| anthropological linguistics |
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| THe sceintific studt of human communication with in its sociocultural context. |
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| The study of how languages change over time. |
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| The historical liguistic technique of determining the approximate date that two languages diverged by analyzing similarites and differences in their vocabularies. |
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The branch of anthropological linguistics that studies how languages are structured.
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| The study of relationships between languse and culture. |
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| a branch of anthropological linguistics that studies how languse and culture are realated and how language is used in different social contexts |
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| the anthropological description of a particular contemporary culture by means of direct fieldwork. |
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| The comparative study of cultural differences and similarites. |
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| The scientific study of cultural similarites and differences wherever and in whatever form they may be found |
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| The study of disease in prehistoric populations. |
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| The study of the interface between social and cultural behavior and human nuttrition |
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| a perspective in anthropology that attempts to study a culture by looking at all parts of the system and how those parts are interrlated |
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| the belief that ones own culture is superior to all others |
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| Teh idea that cultural traits are best understood when viewed with in the cultural context of which they are a part. |
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| A perspective in ethnography that uses the concepts and catagories that are relevant and meaningful to teh culture under analysis. |
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| a perspective in ethnography that uses the concepts and catagories of the anthropologists culture to describe antother culture. |
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