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1. New family you form when you marry and have children.

2. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population

3. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair

4. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock

5. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.

6. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.

7. Relatives through marriage

8. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote

9. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons

10. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel

11. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)

12. Traces back to ONE person

13. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic

14. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)

15. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.

16. Holistic study of humanity.

17. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification

18. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.

19. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement

20. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements

21. Thinkers: linguistics

22. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture

23. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet

24. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.

25. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.

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