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28 Cards in this Set
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Absolute dating
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Dating more precisely with dates with numbers by using different methods like Carbon-14, a radiometric technique.
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Anthropometry
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The measurement of human body parts and dimensions, including skeletal parts.
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Bone biology
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The study of bone as biological tissue, including its genetics; cell structure, growth, development, and decay.
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Complex societies
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Nations; large and populous, with ciao stratification and central governments.
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Cultural consultant
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Someone the ethnographer gets to know in the field, who teaches about their society and culture. Aka: informant
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Emic
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The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.
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Etic
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The research strategy that emphasizes the observer's rather than the natives explanation, categories, and criteria of significance.
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Excavation
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Digging through the layers of deposit is that make up an archaeological site.
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Fossils
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Remains, traces or impassioned of ancient life.
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Genealogical method
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Procedures by which ethnographer a discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage, using diagrams and symbols.
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Informed consent
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Agreement to take part in research, after the people being studied have been told about that researches purpose.
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Interview schedule
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Ethnographic tool for structuring a formal interview.
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Key cultural consultants
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An expert on a particular aspect of local life who helps the ethnographer understand that aspect.
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Life history
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Of a cultural consultant; provides a personal cultural portrait of existence or change in a culture.
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Longitudinal research
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Long-term study do a Cummings, society, culture, or other unit. Usually based on repeated visits.
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Molecular anthropology
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Genetic analysis, involving comparison DNA sequences, to determine evolutionary links and distances among species and ancient and modern populations.
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Paleoanthropology
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The study of hominid evolution and human life as revealed by the fossil record.
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Paleontology
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Study of ancient life through the fossil record
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Paleopathology
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Study of disease and injury in skeletons from archaeological sites.
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Participant observation
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A characteristic ethnographer technique; taking part in the events one is observing, describing, and analysizing.
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Random sample
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A sample in which all members of the population have equal statistical chance of being included.
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Relative dating
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Dating technique that establishes a time frame in relation to other strata or materials, rather than absolute dating in numbers.
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Sample
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A smaller study group chosen to represent a larger population.
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Stratigraphy
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Science that examines the ways in which earth sediments are deposited in demarcated layers known as strata.
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Survey research
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Characteristic research procedure among social scientists other than anthropologists. Studies society through sampling, statistical analysis, and impersonal data collection.
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Systematic survey
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Information gathered on patterns of settlement over a large area; provides a regional perspective on the archaeological record.
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Taphonomy
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The study of the processes, biological and geological, by which dead animals become fossils; from the Greek word taphos, which means tomb.
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Variables
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Attributes ( eg. Sex, age, height, weight) that differ from one person or case to the next.
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