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Eastern Woodlands culture

(Encyclopedia)Eastern Woodlands culture, term used to refer to Native American societies inhabiting the eastern United States. The earliest Woodland groups were the Adena and Hopewell, who lived in the Ohio and Mis...

Woodlands culture

(Encyclopedia)Woodlands culture: see Eastern Woodlands culture. ...

culture

(Encyclopedia)culture, in anthropology, the integrated system of socially acquired values, beliefs, and rules of conduct which delimit the range of accepted behaviors in any given society. Cultural differences dist...

Helladic culture

(Encyclopedia)Helladic culture: see Mycenaean civilization. ...

Anasazi culture

(Encyclopedia)Anasazi culture änˌəsäˈzē [key]: see Basket Makers; cliff dwellers; Pueblo. ...

Folsom culture

(Encyclopedia)Folsom culture fŏlˈsəm, fŭlˈ– [key], a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the) known through artifacts first excavated (1926) near Folsom, E of Raton, N.Mex. The ...

Clovis culture

(Encyclopedia)Clovis culture, a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the) known through artifacts first excavated in the early 1930s near Clovis, N.Mex. The artifacts, including chipped...

tissue culture

(Encyclopedia)tissue culture, the propagation of plants through the placement of small amounts of undifferentiated tissue or single cells in an artificial environment. The tissue is placed in a nutrient medium that...

Villanovan culture

(Encyclopedia)Villanovan culture, the culture of a people of N Italy in the early Iron Age (c.1100–700 b.c.). The term is derived from the town of Villanova, near Bologna, where the first excavations of a Villano...

Lumbee

(Encyclopedia)Lumbee, descendants of Native Americans whose language belonged to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The ancestors of the Lumbee occupi...