അളവെടുപ്പ് കൂടാതെ [[പുരാവസ്തുശാസ്ത്രം|പുരാവസ്തുശാസ്ത്രത്തിലും]] സാമൂഹിക പഠനത്തിലും ആന്ത്രോപിക് യൂണിറ്റ് എന്ന വാക്ക് വ്യത്യസ്ത അർത്ഥങ്ങളോടെ ഉപയോഗിക്കപ്പെടുന്നുണ്ട്. മനുഷ്യൻ എന്നർത്ഥം വരുന്ന ''ആന്ത്രോപോസ് എന്ന ഗ്രീക്ക് പദത്തിൽ'' നിന്നാണ് ആന്ത്രോപിക് എന്നത് ഉരുത്തിരിഞ്ഞത്.
== അവലംബം ==
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== ആർക്കിയോളജിയിൽ ==
In archaeology anthropic units are strata or deposits of material containing a high proportion of man-made detritus. For example:<ref name=vidale>Massimo Vidale (1990). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/29756938 Study of the Moneer South East Area A Complex Industrial Site of Moenjodaro]. ''East and West''. Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO). '''40'''(1/4): 301-314. {{subscription required}}</ref> {{Quotation|"… 'degraded anthropic units', i.e., deposits produced by weathering and decay of fired bricks and mixed fill with non-selected inclusions …"|Massimo Vidale (1990)}}
== അളവിൽ ==
Following the coinage of the term "[[anthropic principle]]" by [[Brandon Carter]] in 1973–4,<ref name=carter>Brandon Carter (1974). [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974IAUS...63..291C Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle in cosmology]. ''Confrontation of cosmological theories with observational data; Proceedings of the Symposium, Krakow, Poland, September 10–12, 1973.'' Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing. pp. 291-298.</ref> units of measurement that are on a human scale are occasionally referred to as "anthropic units", as for example here:<ref name=petley>Brian William Petley (1985). ''The fundamental physical constants and the frontier of measurement''. Bristol; Boston: A. Hilger. p. 120.</ref> {{Quotation|"… the metre and kilogram occupy a reasonably central position as far as symmetry in positive and negative powers of ten is concerned, emphasising that the SI units are natural anthropic units …"|Brian William Petley (1985)}}
== സാമൂഹിക പഠനങ്ങളിൽ ==
In fields of study such as sociology and ethnography, anthropic units are identifiable groupings of people. For example:<ref name=thomson>J. J. Thomson (1896). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1625562 Address by the President to the Mathematical and Physical Section]. ''Science''. American Association for the Advancement of Science. New Series, '''4'''(90): 392-402. {{subscription required}}</ref> {{Quotation|"Ethnographers have been accustomed to deal with the 'race', the 'tribe' and the 'nation' as social or anthropic units …"|J. J. Thomson (1896)}}
and:<ref name=kantor>Jacob Robert Kantor (1944 [1929]). ''An outline of social psychology''. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers. p. 120. Accessed June 2013.</ref> {{Quotation|"... among the more primitive anthropic units it seems a grave ineptitude for the Chukchees not to adopt the snowhouse building complex from the neighboring Eskimos"|Jacob Robert Kantor (1944)}}
