Anthropology is the study of humanity across time and place. It asks big questions about who we are, how we live and how societies change. Anthropologists study everything from ancient civilizations ...

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Archaeology Field School student Izzie Guerrero excavates a 9,000-year-old archaeological site at 12,600 feet in the Andes Mountains of Peru. (Randy Haas/UC Davis) When people think about anthropology ...

Anthropology is exceptionally useful both intellectually and practically. Like most liberal arts disciplines, it teaches students to think in a critical and comparative way, and it exposes them to a ...

World Anthropology Day is observed every year on the third Thursday of February to celebrate the field of anthropology and its contributions to understanding human societies, cultures, and evolution.

We need to listen to anthropologists—the people who study people—because they can teach us a lot about how we got here, how we connect to each other, and why we behave as we do. In this time of ...

Anthropology is the holistic study of what it means to be human. Four subfields are surveyed: biological anthropology (the study of human evolution, diversity, and environmental adaptation), ...