The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani / ˈ r oʊ m ə n i /, / ˈ r ɒ-/), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants.They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with significant concentrations in the Americas.. In the English language, the Romani people are widely known by the exonym …

Jewellery or jewelry consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.For many centuries metal such as gold often combined with …

The existence of the Nephites is part of the Mormon belief system. The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), part of Brigham Young University, has performed extensive archaeological research in the area, and publications on the subject and other historical topics are issued regularly by FARMS. This research is disputed by many researchers, …

Forms of relation and interaction. According to Piotr Sztompka, forms of relation and interaction in sociology and anthropology may be described as follows: first and most basic are animal-like behaviors, i.e. various physical movements of the body.Then there are actions—movements with a meaning and purpose. Then there are social behaviors, or social actions, which address …

Spain began colonizing the Americas under the Crown of Castile and was spearheaded by the Spanish conquistadors.The Americas were invaded and incorporated into the Spanish Empire, with the exception of Brazil, British America, and some small regions of South America and the Caribbean.The crown created civil and religious structures to administer the vast territory.

The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain is the process which changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic.The Germanic-speakers in Britain, themselves of diverse origins, eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons.This process principally occurred from the mid-fifth to early seventh centuries, following …

Third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither man nor woman. It is also a social category present in societies that recognize three or more genders.The term third is usually understood to mean "other", though some anthropologists and sociologists have described fourth and fifth genders.. The state of …

The sling in antiquity Origins. The sling is an ancient weapon known to Neolithic peoples around the Mediterranean, but is likely much older.It is possible that the sling was invented during the Upper Palaeolithic at a time when new technologies such as the spear-thrower and the bow and arrow were emerging. Including Australia, where the woomera has the same mechanical …

Aphrodisias (/ æ f r ə ˈ d ɪ s i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδισιάς, romanized: Aphrodisiás) was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.It is located near the modern village of Geyre, about 100 km (62 mi) east/inland from the coast of the Aegean Sea, and 230 km (140 mi) southeast of İzmir.

The history of games dates to the ancient human past. Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity. Common features of games include uncertainty of outcome, agreed upon rules, competition, separate …

Archaeology of religion and ritual; Poles in mythology; Major theorists. Augustin Calmet; Akbar S. Ahmed; Talal Asad; Joseph Campbell; Mary Douglas; Émile Durkheim; ... Australasia and even completely unrelated parts of the Americas, as they believed these practices to …

A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, honey, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish), roughly as most ...

Black pudding is a distinct regional type of blood sausage originating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.It is made from pork or beef blood, with pork fat or beef suet, and a cereal, usually oatmeal, oat groats, or barley groats. The high proportion of cereal, along with the use of certain herbs such as pennyroyal, serves to distinguish black pudding from blood sausages eaten in …

Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave, who is someone forbidden to quit their service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as their property. Slavery typically involves the enslaved person being made to perform some form of work while also having their location or residence dictated by the enslaver.