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PROTOANTHROPOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protoanthropology mean? 

PROTOANTHROPOLOGY (noun)
  The noun PROTOANTHROPOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the study humans prior to the invention of writingplay

  Familiarity information: PROTOANTHROPOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROTOANTHROPOLOGY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The study humans prior to the invention of writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

protoanthropology; protohistory

Hypernyms ("protoanthropology" is a kind of...):

archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protoanthropology"):

protoarchaeology; protoarcheology (the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils)


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