The Gulf of Mexico is a small ocean basin lying between the North American plate and the Yucatan block. It contains within its depocenter a succession of Jurassic through Holocene strata that is as much as 20 km thick.
Abstract. Edward B. Tylorâs Primitive Culture articulates one of two major theories of culture to emerge around 1870. His theory defines culture in descriptive terms as the âcomplex wholeâ that makes up social ideas and institutions, and in this it helped to establish anthropology as a recognized science.
Tylor is considered by many to be a founding figure of the science of social anthropology, and his scholarly works helped to build the discipline of anthropology in the nineteenth century. He believed that research into the history and prehistory of man... could be used as a basis for the reform of British society ..