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198511062paleoanthropologistpeople who study the earliest humans and the setting in which they live0
198511063mythan interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but has a deep maoral message1
198511064castea hierarchical ordering of people into groups (fixed from birth, based on their inherited ritual status, and determining whom they may marry and dine with)2
198511065teleologyThe philosophical study of final causes or purposes in nature or the universe used to prove the existence of a God3
198511066Homo erectusthe largest group of hominids, and the most similar to humans(evolved 2 million years ago and became extinct 100,000 years ago)4
198511067paradigma model of reality representing one point of view5
198511068radiocarbon datinga method of dating artifacts by measuring radioactive carbon.(useful for 40,000 - 70,000 years ago)6
198511069thermoluminescencea method of dating burnt flint by measuring electrons (useful from 50,000 years ago to 300,000 years ago)7
198511070shamanpeople who are believed to enter trances, have supernatural powers,with the ability to cure the sick, find whats lost, predict the future, protect community, and they were usually rulers.8

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