paleethnology

paleethnology
paleethnologic /pay'lee eth'nl oj"ik/; esp. Brit. /pal'ee-/, paleethnological, adj.paleethnologist, n.
/pay'lee eth nol"euh jee/; esp. Brit. /pal'ee-/, n.
(formerly) the branch of ethnology concerned with the earliest or most primitive races of humankind.
[1865-70; PALE- + ETHNOLOGY]

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