Social Science

How often have you heard the term “survival of the fittest” used as an explanation for the theory of evolution? In fact, the term fitness in this context has little to do with physical strength or endurance as one might…
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Glass is everywhere we look. From the bottles and jars on our shelves to the mirrors we look into and the windows we look out of. Glass is such a part of our lives that we take it for granted…
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Early Archaic (9,200BC – 6,800BC) The Early Archaic shares many similarities with the Late Paleoindian period. Populations remained in small bands of several dozen and continued a mobile hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy (Milner 2004:31). Interregional contact was essential in order to…
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Glass making has a fascinating history, which I’ll show you here. THE BEGINNING Probably, the first glass was obsidian, a volcanic rock which is translucent and would have been easy to find. There is for instance evidence that in Turkey…
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Cultural anthropology, also known as socio-cultural anthropology, and archaeology are quite closely related to each other. They both belong to the larger academic field of anthropology, the study of all human experience. This field is also occupied by linguistic anthropologists…
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Middle Archaic (6,800BC – 3,800BC) The Middle Archaic period was characterized by increased ceremonialism and a change in occupation patterns. Evidence of large shell and midden heaps along rivers in the Upper Midwest indicates that, around 4,500BC, camp locations were…
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To fully understand the Neolithic period as though you were peering from behind the disciplined eyes of a trained anthropologist, you would first have to be well versed in the specific stages of cultural evolution, and the technological development that…
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The Mississippian Period (AD800 – AD1600) The Mississippian period was first identified by Smithsonian anthropologist W. H. Holmes, who examined several different pottery groups of eastern North America. His definition now extends to the cultural complexes that produced those ceramics…
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Physical Anthropology is also called Biological Anthropology. In this sub field of Anthropology, the areas of human and primate evolution, genetics, and the development of human characteristics are explored. The emphasis is on human biological development and the history of…
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Cryptozoology is a branch of study that specializes in the study of hidden animals. In other words, it is the search for animals that have not necessarily been seen by the general public or accepted by the “accredited” zoologists. There…
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