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Expansions, Definitions, and Rants

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Mini-essays linked on this page were developed to expand on topics mentioned in various classes. Most of these are comments too short to merit full pages of their own, but are a little longer than the simple definitions in the Glossary of Ethnographic Terms. A few evolved into longer essays on independent pages, which have also been linkd here.

To be honest, this page exists largely so I can locate these essays when I want to use them again, but meanwhile feel free to use them if you like.

Early Agriculture

  1. Beer
  2. Cacao, Cocoa, and Chocolate
  3. Chinampas
  4. Fermentation & Distillation
  5. Millet & Sorghum
  6. Wine

Geography

  1. Eurasia
  2. Near East and Middle East
  3. Steppe Environments
  4. Tundra Environments
  5. Savanna Environments
  6. Loess (Löss) Soil


  7. Independent page: Beringia

Disease

  1. AIDS
  2. Anthrax
  3. Cholera
  4. Flu
  5. Malaria
  6. Plague
  7. Dengue Fever
  8. Smallpox

Religion

  1. Cults
  2. Sects
  3. Myths & Legends
  4. Shamans & Shamanism
  5. Trance & Possession
  6. Syncretism
  7. Superstition

Social Structure

  1. Communism and Cultural Evolution
  2. Divine Kingship
  3. Elites
  4. Feudalism
  5. Functionalism
  6. Political Legitimacy
  7. Raiding
  8. Reciprocity
  9. Status

Materials Frequently Referred to by Archaeologists

  1. Amber
  2. Bitumen
  3. Cinnabar
  4. Clay
  5. Faience (Faïence)
  6. Flint
  7. Jade
  8. Lacquer
  9. Lapis Lazuli
  10. Malachite
  11. Mica
  12. Obsidian
  13. Plaster & Cement
  14. Red Ochre
  15. Slate
  16. Soapstone


  17. Independent page: Cloth
  18. Independent page: Metallurgy

Archaeological Tool Traditions

  1. Oldowan Tools
  2. Acheulean Tradition
  3. MousterianTradition
  4. Châtelperronian Tradition
  5. Aurignacian Tradition
  6. Perigordian Tradition
  7. Gravettian Tradition
  8. Solutrean Tradition
  9. Magdalenian Tradition
  10. Ahrensburgian Tradition
  11. HamburgianTradition
  12. Azilian Tradition

  13. Neolithic
  14. Neolithic Ground Stone Tools


  15. Independent page: Stone Tools
  16. Independent page: Paleo-Indian Spear Points

Miscellaneous Other Stuff

  1. The Word Manchu
  2. Sexual Dimorphism
  3. Soap
  4. Steelyards
  5. Teeth and Dentition
  6. Stone Sickles
  7. Representation of Very Large Numbers
  8. Creationism
  9. Ethnocentrism


  10. Independent page: Evolution
  11. Independent page: The Bantu Expansion
  12. Independent page: Human Birth & Bipedalism

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