ethnohistory
noun
a branch of anthropology dealing with the development of cultures, as through the analysis of archaeological findings.
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Because of these limitations on the reliability of informants, most of our work was by necessity based on ethnohistoric research.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy