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| the study of the human species and its immediate ancestors |
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| encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture |
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| traditions and customs transmitted through learning |
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| an economy based on plant cultivation and/or animal domestication |
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| anthropology as a whole: cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology |
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| combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem |
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| fieldwork in a particular cultural setting |
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| the comparative, cross-cultural study of human society and culture |
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| the study of sociocultural differences and similarities |
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| Archaeological Anthropology |
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| the study of human behavior through material means |
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| the study of human biological variation in time and space |
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| the study of human biological variation in time and space (same as biological anthropology) |
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| field of study that seeks reliable explainations, with reference to the material and physical world |
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| the study of language and linguistic diversity in time, space, and society |
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| the study of language in a society |
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| using anthropology to solve contemporary problems |
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| Cultural Resource Management |
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| deciding what needs saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved |
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| a set of ideas formulated to explain something |
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| an observed relationship between two or more variables |
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| a suggested but as yet unverified explanation |
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