"Characteristics that have been rec0rded in every culture known to history and ethnography:

age-grading, athletic sports, bodily adornment, calendar, cleaningness training, community organization, cooking, cooperative labor, cosmology, courtship, dancing, decourative art, divination, division of labour, dream interpretation, education, eschatology, ethics, ethnobotany, etiquette, faith healing, family feasting, fire making, folklore, food taboos, funeral rites, games, gestures, gift giving, government, greetings, hair styles, hospitality, housing, hygiene, incest taboos, inheritance rules, joking, kin groups, kinship nomenclature, language, law luck superstitions, magic, marriage, mealtimes, medicine, obstrectics, penal sanctions, personal names, population policy, postnatal care, pregnacy usages, property rights, propiatiation of supernatural beings, puberty customs, religious ritual, residence rules, sexual restrictions, shoul concepts, status differentiation, surgery, tool making, trrade, visiting and weather control."
George P. Murdock