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.
The evolutionism of Tylor, Morgan, and others of the nineteenth century is largely rejected today largely because their theories cannot satisfactorily account for cultural variation - why, for instance, some societies today are in upper savagery and others in civilization..