... that humans can communicate with each other through materialistic remains, thus I combined both fields. While archeology is the study of past human cultures by materialistic remains, linguistic anthropology is the study of human communication, including its origins, history, and variations. Two major areas of archeology are prehistoric, which follows the past of humans before written documentation ... , and historical, which covers the particular human past in societies that have recorded knowledge. There are specific areas when looking closely at linguistic anthropology, as well. Histor...

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... savages." The model went on to discuss the evolution of society. The linear evolution diagram shows how different things diverted from simple to complex. Some of these things were technology, social organization, and most importantly culture. This was one of the first times that culture was proven to evolve as well. One of the most important concepts that surfaced during this ... has its own distinct history and one cannot use universal laws to assume how culture operates. Cultural relativism pointed out that the differences in peoples were the results of historical, social and geograph...

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... savages." The model went on to discuss the evolution of society. The linear evolution diagram shows how different things diverted from simple to complex. Some of these things were technology, social organization, and most importantly culture. This was one of the first times that culture was proven to evolve as well. One of the most important concepts that surfaced during this ... has its own distinct history and one cannot use universal laws to assume how culture operates. Cultural relativism pointed out that the differences in peoples were the results of historical, social and geograph...

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... by taking time to take the perspective of another culture before passing judgement. It is mainly a side effect of a lack of knowledge. Studying cultural realism is "difficult [in] that whereas anthropology and sociology are empirical sciences, fields of study based on observations and facts, ethics is a normative discipline, based on judgments and moral values [but] a scientist can only predict a certain outcome ... the environment surrounding it. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism are two polar opposites ways of viewing the world and its ethics. There is no right way to approach the...

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