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| pRimitive - involved in self-preservation, mating, territoriality |
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| has most of the aspects of culture, but not all |
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| emotions - fear, rage, care for young |
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| mammalian - depth perception, conscious thought, sensory perception |
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| collective interpretation of cultural and natural environment, assumptions and values. |
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| to arrange systematically or articulate |
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| archaeology of a society that has written records - his Story |
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| interpreting archaelogical data through the observation of analogous activities in existing societies (inferring that an ancient tool was used for the same purpose that a modern tool is used for based on their similarity) |
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| subfield applied to legal matters, usu. identifying skeletal remains and calculating time of death |
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| the process of understanding ancient skills and technologies by reproducing them |
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| gives a specific age, year, or range of years for an object/site |
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| indicates the age of one item in comparison to another |
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| refers to the decay rate of a radioactive substance |
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| radiometric technique using the rate at which radioactive potassium found in volcanic rock, decays in to stable argon gas |
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| radiometric technique using the rate at which radioactive potassium found in volcanic rock, decays in to stable argon gas |
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| classification system based on evolutionary branching |
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| having the ability to grasp |
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| jutting forward of the lower face and jaw area |
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| Taking a flake off a core by pushing a wood, bone, or antler tool against the stone. |
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| a convex surface on a flake caused by the force used to split the flake off. rarely found in a natural break. |
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| classification system based on existing phenotypic structures and adaptations |
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| studying past life forms through fossils |
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| humans as our direct ancestors |
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| modern humans and our ancestors - upright walkers |
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| uses nested sets of categories |
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