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Cultural anthropology

Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.

Contributors in Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

Venus figurines

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Small upper palaeolithic statues characterised by exaggerated breasts and buttocks and very stylized heads, hands, and feet.

Soil-sieves

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Small, precision metal screens, used for determining the proportions of different sized particles in a soil sediment sample.

Microevolution

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Small-scale evolution within a population over relatively short periods of time.

Steatite

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Soapstone or talc; a soft grey to green stone used as a carving medium.

Tarsiidae

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Suborder of the order primates consisting of the tarsiers.

Prosimii

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Suborder of the order primates that includes the living Madagascar lemuriformes and the lorises, potto, angwantibo, and galagos.

Hominoidea

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Superfamily of the suborder anthropoidea that includes the apes and humans.

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