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religion
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A framework of beliefs relating to the supernatural or superhuman beings or forces that transcend...
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Ritual
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a repetitive social practice composed of a sequence of sumbolic activities.
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Archaeoastronomy
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the archaeological examination of astronomically based knowledge and related practices of ancient...
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Complex Society
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society in which authority, coordination of activity, and control of behavior are organized...
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Direct Historical Approach
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An approach in ethnographic analogy in which the culture of a group that represents the descendants...
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Effigy Mound
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Earthen structure made in the shape of animals, both real and mythical, and people. Ancient...
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egalitarian
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a society in which all the members within the group's recognized age and sex categories have...
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enculturated
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to become a member of a culture, to learn the rules by which a society operates, and to follow...
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ethnoarchaeology
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a strategy employed by archaeologists to attempt to better understand the ways in which the...
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ethnographic analogy
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using the description of a living group of people - or a people who lived in the not-too-distant...
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living archaeology
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A strategy employed by archaeologists attempting to better understand the ways in which the...
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matrilocality
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a post-marital residence pattern in which, upon marriage, a man leaves the community (compound,...
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patrilocality
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refers to a pattern of post-marital residence in which a newly married couple lives in the...
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petroglyph
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literally "rock writing." By incising or pounding, people produce images and designs on rock...
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pictograph
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a design painted onto a rock surface
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