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Taphonomy
Taphonomy is the study of processes by which organic remains and traces are incorporated into the fossil record. The term is derived from Greek roots: taphos, meaning burial, and nomos, meaning law. Taphonomy is the subdiscipline of paleontology and archaeology predominantly ...
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- Lafitau, Joseph-Francois
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- Lenin, Vladimir I. U.
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- Fiji
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- Folk culture
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- Tylor, Edward Burnett
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- Villages
- War, anthropology of
- White, Leslie A.
- Work and skills
- Yabarana Indians
- Yaganes
- Yanomamo
- Zande
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- Zulu
- Zuni Indians
- Evolution
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- Ape biogeography
- Aquatic ape hypothesis
- Arboreal hypothesis
- Ardrey, Robert
- Australopithecines
- Biological anthropology
- Biological anthropology and neo-Darwinism
- Black, Davidson
- Brain, evolution of primate
- Catastrophism
- Cladistics
- Creationism versus geology
- Darrow, Clarence
- Dart, Raymond A.
- Darwin and Germany
- Darwin and India
- Darwin and Italy
- Darwin, Charles
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- Dennett, Daniel C.
- Diamond, Jared
- Dinosaurian hominid
- Dropithecus
- Dubois, Eugene
- Evolution education controversy
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- Evolution, human
- Evolution, models of
- Evolution, molecular
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- Evolutionary anthropology
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- Evolutionary ontology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Extinction
- Fossil record
- Fossils
- Galapagos Islands
- Genetics, human
- Gigantopithecus
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Harris, Marvin
- Hominid taxonomy
- Hominization, issues in
- Hominoids
- Homo antecessor
- Homo erectus
- Homo ergaster
- Homo habilis
- Homo sapiens
- Howell, F. Clark
- Hrdlicka, Ales
- Human canopy evolution
- Humans and dinosaurs
- India and evolution
- Integrity, dynamic
- Johanson, Donald C.
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- Kenyapithecus wickeri
- Leakey, Louis S. B.
- Leakey, Mary D.
- Leakey, Meave Epps
- Leakey, Richard E. F.
- Life, origin of
- Lovejoy, C. Owen
- Lucy reconstruction models
- Mass extinctions
- Meganthropus
- Monkey Trial [1925]
- Monogenesis versus polygenesis
- Morgan, Elaine
- Morgan, Lewis Henry
- Morphology versus molecules in evolution
- Morris, Desmond
- Napier, J. R.
- Narmada man
- Neandertal evidence
- Neandertals
- Neo-Darwinism
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- Olduvai Gorge
- Oparin, A. I.
- Orangutan-human evolution
- Oreopithecus
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- Russel, Dale Allen
- Russia and evolution
- Sahelanthropus tchadensis
- Schwartz, Jeffrey H.
- Scopes, John
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- Spencer, Herbert
- State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
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- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
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- Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich
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- Weidenrich, Franz
- White, Leslie A.
- White, Timothy
- Zinjanthropus boisei
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- Amazonia
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- Axes, hand
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- Continental drift
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- Darwin, Charles
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- Eoliths
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- Levalloisian tradition
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- Paleontology
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- Petra
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- Pictographs
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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- Uniformitarianism
- Uranium-Lead dating
- Venezuela
- Wegener, Alfred
- Linguistics
- Anatomy and physiology of speech
- Anthropology, history of
- Ape communication
- Ape intelligence
- Ape language
- Artificial intelligence
- Champollion, Jean-François
- Chants
- Chomsky, Noam
- Cognitive science
- Computer languages
- Computers and humankind
- Counseling
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- Ethnographic writing
- Ethnosemantics
- Folk speech
- Generative grammar
- Global language
- Glottochronology
- Intelligence
- Kanzi
- Kinship terminology
- Koko (lowland gorilla)
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Language
- Language and biology
- Language and culture
- Language use, sociology of
- Language, animal
- Language, classification of
- Language, origin of
- Language, types of
- Linguistic reconstruction
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- Lingusitics, transformational
- Memes
- Myths and mythology
- Oral literature
- Orality and anthropology
- Paralanguage
- Paralinguistic communication
- Patterson, Francine G.
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Protolanguage
- Sapir, Edward
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- Semantics, ethnographic
- Sociolinguistics
- Speech, folk
- Swahili
- Symboling
- Universals in culture
- Universals in language
- Vanishing languages
- Washoe
- Whorf, Benjamin Lee
- Paleontology
- Apes, fossil
- Atapuerca
- Australopithecines
- Black, Davidson
- Coon, Carleton S.
- Dart, Raymond A.
- Dryopithecus
- Dubois, Eugene
- Evolution, human
- Fa Hien cave
- Fossil record
- Fossils
- Gigantopithecus
- Graves
- Hominid taxonomy
- Hominization, issues in
- Hominoids
- Homo antecessor
- Homo erectus
- Homo ergaster
- Homo habilis
- Homo sapiens
- Howell, F. Clark
- Hrdlicka, Ales
- Human paleontology
- Humans and dinosaurs
- Java man
- Johanson, Donald C.
- Kennewick man
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- Kenyapithecus wickeri
- Lazaret cave
- Leakey, Louis S. B.
- Leakey, Mary D.
- Leakey, Meave Epps
- Leakey, Richard E. F.
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lucy reconstruction models
- Meganthropus
- Mungo lady/man
- Napier, J. R.
- Neandertal burials
- Neandertal evidence
- Neandertal sites
- Neandertals
- Olduvai Gorge
- Oreopithecus
- Paleoanthropology
- Paleoecology
- Paleontology
- Palynology
- Sahelanthropus tchadensis
- Schwartz, Jeffrey H.
- Shanidar cave
- Siwalik Hills
- Taphonomy
- Tattersall, Ian
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
- Weidenrich, Franz
- Xenophanes
- Zafarraya cave
- Zinjanthropus boisei
- Zooarchaeology
- Philosophy
- Altruism
- Anthropology, philosophical
- Bergson, Henri
- Bruno, Giordano
- Buber, Martin
- Categorical imperative
- Comte, Auguste
- Condorcet, Marguis de
- Critical realism
- Deleuze, Gilles
- Dennett, Daniel C.
- Derrida, Jacques
- Dewey, John
- Empedocles
- Engels, Friedrich
- Enlightenment versus postmodernism
- Enlightenment, age of
- Entelechy
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental philosophy
- Essentialism
- Ethics and anthropology
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Evolutionary ethics
- Evolutionary ontology
- Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Fromm, Erich
- Hegel, G. W. F.
- Heidegger, Martin
- Heraclitus
- Hermeneutics
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Human dignity
- Human excellence
- Humanism, secular
- India, philosophies of
- Integrity, dynamic
- Kant, Immanuel
- Kropotkin, Prince Peter A.
- Lucretius
- Marx, Karl
- Marxism
- Naturalism
- Neo-Marxism
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Pantheism
- Philosophy, dynamic
- Popper, Karl
- Positivism
- Postmodernism
- Pragmatism
- Science, philosophy of
- Spencer, Herbert
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
- Teleology
- Theories
- Time
- Unamuno, Miguel de
- Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich
- Whitehead, Alfred North
- Xenophanes
- Psychology
- Aggression
- Alienation
- Altruism
- Ape agression
- Ape cognition
- Ape communication
- Ape intelligence
- Ape language
- Apollonian
- Ardrey, Robert
- Artificial intelligence
- Behavior, collective
- Benedict, Ruth
- Childhood
- Civil disobedience
- Cognitive science
- Configurationism
- Conflict
- Consciousness
- Counseling
- Crime
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- Cross-cultural research
- Cultural constraints
- Cultural relativism
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- Culture shock
- Dementia
- Dennett, Daniel C.
- Deviance
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- Folkways
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- Freud, Sigmund
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- Fromm, Erich
- Gangs
- Harlow, Harry F.
- Human competition and stress
- Human excellence
- Humankind, psychic unity of
- Incest taboo
- Intelligence
- Intelligence and genetics
- IQ tests
- Kanzi
- Kluckhohn, Clyde K. M.
- Koko (lowland gorilla)
- Kroeber, Alfred Louis
- Lorenz, Konrad
- Mead, Margaret
- Modal personality
- Mores
- Morris, Desmond
- Nationalism
- Neo-Freudianism
- Neurotheology
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Norms
- Pinker, Steven
- Psychiatry, transcultural
- Psychology and genetics
- Reciprocity
- Sex identity
- Sex roles
- Sexuality
- Taboos
- Territoriality
- Twin studies
- Washoe
- Xenophobia
- Physical/Biological Anthropology
- Acheulean culture
- Adaptation, biological
- Altamira cave
- Anatomy and physiology of speech
- Anthropology, history of
- Anthropometry
- Ape agression
- Ape biogeography
- Ape cognition
- Ape communication
- Ape intelligence
- Apes, fossil
- Apes, greater
- Apes, lesser
- Aquatic ape hypothesis
- Arboreal hypothesis
- Ardrey, Robert
- Artificial life
- Atapuerca
- Aurignacian culture
- Australopithecines
- Axes, hand
- Baboons
- Biological anthropology
- Biological anthropology and neo-Darwinism
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- Biometrics
- Bipedal locomotion
- Black, Davidson
- Blood groups
- Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
- Bonobos
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- Brace, C. Loring
- Brachiation
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- Brain, human
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- Chimpanzees and bonobos, differences
- Chimpanzees in captivity
- Chimpanzees, saving
- Colobines
- Coon, Carleton S.
- Craniometry
- Dart, Raymond A.
- Darwin, Charles
- de Waal, Frans B. M.
- DeVore, Irven
- Diamond, Jared
- Dinosaurian hominid
- Diseases
- DNA molecule
- DNA recombinant
- DNA testing
- Dryopithecus
- Dubois, Eugene
- El Ceren
- Eugenics
- Eve, mitochrondrial
- Evolutioin, human
- Forensic anthropology
- Fossey, Dian
- Galdikas, Biruté Mary F.
- Genetics, human
- Gibbons
- Gigantopithecus
- Goodall, Jane
- Gorillas
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- Gorillas, saving
- Graves
- Grooming
- Haeckel, Ernst
- HIV/AIDS
- Hominid taxonomy
- Hominization, issues in
- Hominoids
- Homo antecessor
- Homo erectus
- Homo ergaster
- Homo habilis
- Homo sapiens
- Howell, F. Clark
- Howling monkeys
- Hrdlicka, Ales
- Human canopy evolution
- Human diversity
- Human Genome Project
- Human paleontology
- Human variation
- Humans and dinosaurs
- Hylobates
- Iceman
- Java man
- Johanson, Donald C.
- Kanzi
- Kennewick man
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- Kenyapithecus wickeri
- Koko (lowland gorilla)
- Lascaux cave
- Lazaret cave
- Leakey, Louis S. B.
- Leakey, Mary D.
- Leakey, Meave Epps
- Leakey, Richard E. F.
- Lemurs
- Lorises
- Lucy reconstruction models
- Macaques
- Marmosets
- Meganthropus
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- Montagu, Ashley
- Morris, Desmond
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- Museums
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- Napier, J. R.
- Narmada man
- Neandertal burials
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- Neandertals
- Ngandong
- Oldowan culture
- Olduvai Gorge
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- Oreopithecus
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- Paleoanthropology
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- Primatology
- Prosimians
- RNA molecule
- Sahelanthropus tchadensis
- Sambungmachan
- Sangiran
- Sasquatch
- Savage-Rumbaugh, Susan
- Schaller, George B.
- Schwartz, Jeffrey H.
- Shanidar cave
- Siamangs
- Sickle-cell anemia
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- Smuts, Barbara B.
- Sociobiology
- Spider monkeys
- Strum, Shirley C.
- Tamarins
- Tarsiers
- Tattersall, Ian
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
- Territoriality in primates
- Tools and evolution
- Treeshrews
- Twin studies
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Washburn, Sherwood L.
- Washoe
- Weidenrich, Franz
- Yerkes, Robert M.
- Yeti
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- Zoos
- Religion/Theology
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- Animatism
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- Anthropology of religion
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Bayang medicine man
- Buddhism
- Comparative religion
- Confucianism
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- Creationism, beliefs in
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- Frazer, Sir James
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- Graves
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- India, rituals of
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- Jews
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- Mana
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- Marx, Karl
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- Muslims
- Native North American religions
- Neurotheology
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Pantheism
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- Polytheism
- Religion
- Religion and anthropology
- Religion and environment
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- Religious rituals
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- Shaman
- Sorcery
- Sufi Islam
- Taboos
- Taj Mahal
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
- Totem poles
- Totemism
- Tylor, Edward Burnett
- Wallace, Anthony F. C.
- Witch doctor
- Witchcraft
- Sociology
- Africa, socialist schools in
- African American thought
- African Americans
- African thinkers
- Alienation
- Amish
- Anthropology and sociology
- Anthropology, social
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- Civil disobedience
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- Comte, Auguste
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- Culture of poverty
- Culture shock
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- Durkheim, David Émile
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- Mark, Karl
- Marxism
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- Sociology
- Speech, folk
- Spencer, Herbert
- Subcultures
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- Urban legends
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- Anthropology of men
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- Anthropology of women
- Anthropology, characteristics of
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- Anthropology, subdivisions of
- Anthropology, theory in
- Anthropomorphism
- Ape biogeography
- Apollonian
- Aquatic ape hypothesis
- Arboreal hypothesis
- Architectural anthropology
- Art, universals in
- Artificial life
- Big bang theory
- Cardiff giant hoax
- Catastrophism
- Chaos theory
- Chaos theory and anthropology
- Cladistics
- Communism
- Complexity
- Computers and humankind
- Configurationism
- Conflict
- Cosmology and sacred landscapes
- Creationism versus geology
- Creationism, beliefs in
- Critical realism
- Critical realism in ethnology
- Cross-cultural research
- Cultural conservation
- Cultural constraints
- Cultural ecology
- Cultural relativism
- Cultural tree of life
- Culture
- Culture and personality
- Culture area concept
- Culture change
- Culture, characteristics of
- Cybernetic modeling
- Cybernetics
- Darkness in El Dorado controversy
- Darwinism versus Lamarckism
- Darwinism, social
- Degenerationism
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- Dictatorships
- Diffusionism
- Dinosaurian hominid
- Education and anthropology
- Egyptology
- Emics
- Enculturation
- Enlightenment versus postmodernism
- Enlightenment, age of
- Entelechy
- Environmental philosophy
- Environments
- Ethnocentrism
- Ethnogenesis
- Ethnohistory
- Ethology and ethnology
- Etics
- Eve, mitochrondrial
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Evolutionary ethics
- Evolutionary ontology
- Exobiology and exoevolution
- Feminism
- French structuralism
- Functionalism
- Future of anthropology
- Futurology
- Gaia hypothesis
- Gemeinschaft
- Geomythology
- Gesellschaft
- Global society
- Global warming
- Glottochronology
- God gene
- Hardy-Weinberg principle
- Henotheism
- Hermeneutics
- Historicism
- Hoaxes in anthropology
- Hominization, issues in
- Human canopy evolution
- Human dignity
- Humanism, evolutionary
- Humanism, religious
- Humanism, secular
- Humankind, psychic unity of
- Humans and dinosaurs
- Iceman
- Ideology
- Incest taboo
- Instincts
- Integrity, dynamic
- Interpreting evidence
- Jews and pseudo-anthropology
- Kulturkreise
- Legends
- Lucy reconstruction models
- Marxism
- Materialism, cultural
- Memes
- Migrations to the Western Hemisphere
- Missing link
- Models, anthropological
- Monogenesis versus polygenesis
- Myths and mythology
- Nationalism
- Naturalism
- Nature
- Nature and nurture
- Nature, role of human mind in
- Neo-Darwinism
- Neo-Freudianism
- Neo-Marxism
- Neurotheology
- Non-Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms
- Norms
- Objectivity in ethnography
- Orangutan-human evolution
- Origin of bipedality
- Paluxy footprints
- Pantheism
- Participant-observation
- Phrenology
- Physiognomy
- Positivism
- Postcolonialism
- Postmodernism
- Pragmatism
- Reciprocity
- Research in anthropology
- Research methods
- Revitalization movements
- Sasquatch
- Science, philosophy of
- Scientific method
- Scientism versus fundamentalism
- Secularization
- Social change
- Sociobiology
- Stereotypes
- Structuralism
- Superorganic
- Survivals, cultural
- Syncretism
- Teleology
- Territoriality
- Theories
- Time in anthropology
- Transformationalism
- Uniformitarianism
- Unity of humankind
- Universals in culture
- Universals in language
- Values and anthropology
- Verification in ethnography
- Wolfian perspective in cultural anthropology
- Women in anthropology
- Women's studies
- Xenophobia
- Yeti
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