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| The study of ancient humans found as fossils through things such as petrified bones and footprints. |
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| A reoccuring set or theme of something. |
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| Communities of people moving from one place to another and never permanently settling. |
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| Based on statistical characterations of patterns |
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| Can be used to represent facts about specific people, places, things and events. |
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| A pattern of a pattern. In other words, a pattern so wide-flung that it appears throughout the spectrum of reality: in clouds, rivers, and planets; in cells, organisms, and ecosystems; in art and architecture, and politics. They are functional universals for forms in space, processes in time, and concepts in mind |
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| Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependancy of its parts. |
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| The broadest possible context through which the complexities, interconnections, and interdependencies of culture can be comprehended |
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| refers to an analysis of a society as a whole which refuses to break society into component parts. |
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Cultural anthropology
Archeology
Lingustic anthropology
Physical anthropology |
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| A branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures. |
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| Mainly from Africa, they were made usually from stone. |
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| The process in which certain traits become more or less common in a population due to consistant effects upon the survival and reproduction of their bearers. |
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| A genetic disorder, a recessive autosomal gene is responsible for the disorder. |
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"proposition of the law"
refers to the use of generalization rather than specific properties in the context of the group as an entity. |
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| Experience based techniques that help in problem solving, learning and discovering. |
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| Sets out to interpret society as a structure with interrelated parts. Functionalism addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. |
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| describes how people use objects and structures and the human behaviors assossiated with their use |
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| Involves judgement of a culture according to its own standards |
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Hypothesis: An educated guess explaining something that happened or was observed in the field.
Theory: A hypothesis confirmed by these observations.
Induction: entails identifying patterns of knowledge from field observations or lab expierements.
Deduction: what should occur based on confirmed body of facts, principles or beliefs. |
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Something known as a fact.
Or anthropology is used in law to help determine murder cases. |
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| an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric statuettes of women portrayed with similar physical attributes. bone, ivory, stone.. |
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| Describing how cultures and societies have changed over time. |
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| Evolutionary process by which new species arise. |
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| Change in the frequency of a gene varient in a population due to random sampling. |
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| Transfer of alleles of genes from one population to another |
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| Studies rock layers and layering. |
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| A sequence of discrete rock layers in the geologic record. |
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| Aboreal locomotion in which primates swing from tree to tree using only their arms. |
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| The behavior of an animal that is active during the daytime. |
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| The quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding. |
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| The name given to an archeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with early humans. |
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| The systematic difference in form between individuals of different sex in the same species. |
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| The loss of generatic varition that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population. |
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| Inferring the use or meaning of an ancient site or artifact based on observations and accounts of its use by living people |
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| A distinctive type of stone knapping developed by humans during the Palaeolitic period |
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| Name given by archeologists to a style of predominently flint tools by neandertales. |
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| Small stone tool that is sufficently worked so as to be distinguishable from workshop waste or accidents. Very small, typically used as tips for spears or other hunting weapons. |
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| Two sided stone tool that is used as multi purpose tool with flake scars on both sides. |
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| Eyes on the side of the head instead of facing foreward. |
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| Long periods of evolutionary status interrupted with sudden bursts of random change. |
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| Belief that changes occur gradually in evolution. |
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| Living things changing over time. |
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| Development of culture and society from simple to complex forms. |
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| Ideas or artifacts from one culture to another. |
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| The relationship between a given society and its natural enviornment as well as the life forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways |
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| People one meets in the feild of anthropology and gets information from |
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| A set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or a group. |
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| The principle that an individuals human's belief and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture. |
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| Process of reasoning by which more specific consequences are inferred by rigorous argument from more general propositions |
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| people, communities, and nations who claim a historical continuity and cultural affinity with societies endemic to their original territories that developed prior to exposure to the larger connected civilization associated with Western culture. |
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| It is often employed for gathering empirical data on human societies/cultures. |
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| process by which traits become more or less common in a population due to consistent effects upon the survival or reproduction of their bearers. |
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| A situation in which both alleles are both equally as strong and both alleles are visible in the hybrid genotype. |
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| Intentional breeding for certain traits or a combination of traits. |
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| Earliest most significant tool in pre history. the archaeological term used to refer to the stone tool industry that was used by Hominins during the Lower Palaeolithic period. |
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| The complete set of unique alleles or a population. |
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| the transfer of alleles of genes from one population to another |
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| The way of situating an object within a series. |
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| The application of the science of physical anthropology applied in a legal setting |
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| More technically, clines consist of ecotypes or forms of species that exhibit gradual phenotypic and/or genetic differences over a geographical area, typically as a result of environmental heterogeneity. Genetically, clines result from the change of allele frequencies within the gene pool of the group of taxa in question. |
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| Is the science determining the relative order of past events without nesseccarily determining their absolute age. |
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| The process of determining an approximate age for an archaeological site or artifact. |
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