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Mode or strategy for survival. Can be a physical characteristic. Can also be cultural behavior. |
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| The state of being biologically capable or culturally prepared to survive in a given environment. |
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| Anthropological Linguistics |
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| Subfield of anthroplogy that focuses on language. |
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The study of humanity. A broad social science with varied foci on human biological and cultural adaptations, human origins, biological and cultural evolution, as well as modern cultures.
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| A place where people lived and/or worked and where material the material objects that they made, used, lost, or discarded can yet be recovered and analyzed. |
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| The study of humanity through the analysis of the material remains of human behavior: the study of the things that people made and used in the past and that have fortuitously perserved. Often focuses on human cultural evolution. |
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| Any object manufactured by a human being or human ancestor. Usually defined further as a portable object like a stone spear point or a clay pot to distinguish it from larger mor complex archaeological features. |
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| an adherent to the perspective that the current appearance of the earth can be best explained as having resulted fomr a series of natural catastrophes - for example, floods and volcanoes. Quite popular prior to the nineteenth century and lent support to the claim of a recent age for the earth. |
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| One who believes that the universe, the eartgh, life, and humanity are the product of the creation of an all powerful god. |
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| The invented, taught,and learned patterns of behavior of human groups. The extra-somatic (beyond the body or beyond the biological) means of adaptation of a human group. |
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| The disintegration and transportation of geological material by wind, water, or ice. |
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| Cultural anthropologist who lives among a group of people or a cultural group. Interacts with them on a daily basis, often for an extended period of time, observing their behavior. |
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| The comparative study of culture. The study of human behavior cross-culturally, looking for similarities and differences in how people behave: how the raise their children, how they treat elders, how they organize their labor, etc. |
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| Systematic change through time of biological organisms or human cultural systems. |
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| Use of anthropological science to solve crime. |
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| The process proposed by charles darwin for how species evolve. those individuals in a species that possess advatageous characteristics are more likely to survive and pass down those chracteristics to their offspring than individuals who do not possess those advantages. |
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| Anthropological study of the evololution of our species. The study of study the skeletal remains and cultures of ancient homonids. |
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| Animals possessed of grasping hands and feet, steroscopic vision, and relatively large brain sizes (in proportion to body size). Most, but not all primates have nails instead of claws, tails, and arboreal adaptation. |
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| A person who studies primates: prosimian, monkeys, or apes. |
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| Related to the geological or cultural layer in which something has been foun. Layering represents a relative sequence of geological time and/or cultural chronology. |
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| Chronological breakdown of the history of human culture into a stone bronze and iron age. Developed by J.C. Thomsen as part of a museum guidebook for archaelogical collections in 1836. |
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| The belief that the appearance of the earth could best be understood as resulting from the slow action of known processes over a very long period of time. First championed in the late 18th and 19th centuries allowed for a great age of the earth. |
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| The decomposition and disintegration or rock, usually at or near the earth's surface. |
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