- Branche: Archaeology
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An organism just after conception; for instance, in humans during the first eight weeks of in-utero development.
Industry:Archaeology
An organism that eats a diversity of food types, including animals and plants.
Industry:Archaeology
A structure made up of the vertebrae, from the cervical to the thoracic and lumbar.
Industry:Archaeology
The interrelationships between organisms or populations and their environment.
Industry:Archaeology
A subdiscipline of anthropology concerned with the non-biological, behavioral aspects of society; i.e. the social, linguistic, and technological components underlying human behavior. Two important branches of cultural anthropology are ethnography (the study of living cultures) and ethnology (which attempts to compare cultures using ethnographic evidence). In Europe, it is referred to as social anthropology.
Industry:Archaeology
A subdiscipline of anthropology involving the study of the human past through its material remains.
Industry:Archaeology
Symbolic association between a social group (e.g., a lineage or clan) and a kind of bird, plant, or natural phenomenon. In "classic" forms, a member of the social group has some special religious relationship (e.g., a food taboo) toward members of the natural species.
Industry:Archaeology
