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| The academic discipline that studies all of humanity from a broad perspective. |
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| Investigates the human past through the excavation and analysis of material remains. Modern archaeology is divided into two major studies: prehistoric and historic. |
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| A field of archaeology that uses excavation of sites and analysis of materials remains to investigate cultures that existed before the development of writing. |
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| A field of archaeology that investigates the past of literate peoples through excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts and other material remains. |
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| Biological (Physical) Anthropology |
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| A major subfield of anthropology that studies the biological dimensions of humans and other primates. |
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| The study of primates including monkeys and apes; subfield of biological anthropology. |
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| The physical and genetic differences among human populations which is an interest of physical antropologists. |
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| The specialization of physical anthropology that investigates the biological evolution of the human species. |
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| A specialization within the physical anthropology that analyzes and identifies human remains. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that studies the way of life of contemporary and historically recent peoples. |
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| Ethnographic research that involves observing and interviewing the members of a culture to describe their way of life. |
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| A written description of the way of life of some human population. |
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| Anthropological Linguistics |
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| The subfiled of anthropology that is concerned with the the complex relationships between language and other aspects of human behavior and thought. |
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