Anthropology: Introduction to the four subfields
The History and Understanding of the Four Subfields of Anthropology:
Anthropology is the study of people in their cultural context and the examination of all aspects of patterned social behavior. The study of humanity covers all areas of human biological and social life. It provides meaning to the existence and behaviors of people in the past and present. Being a broad field of discipline; the general
by D. Vogt
The aquatic ape hypothesis is a theory that, at some point in the past several million years ago, the ancestors of Homo sapiens lived
by Christine G.
Physical anthropology (also known a biological anthropology) is both a biological science and a social science. It encompasses the
The Stone Age is when man fashioned tools and weapons instead of selecting them from the environment. It is the era that definitively
81 Article Titles on Physical Anthropology
- 250,000 years ago Neanderthals painted the town red (1 article)
- Why the discovery of Homo Floresiensis in 2004 was so important for anthropology (2 articles)
- What is evolution? (34 articles)
- Anthropology: Introduction to the four subfields (6 articles)
- Theories of evolution: Pre-Darwinian theories (2 articles)
- The history of forensic anthropology evidence collection (1 article)
- The processes of evolution and how they produce new forms of organisms (1 article)
- How remains in ancient sites tell archaeologists that inhabitants were engaged in domestication (1 article)
- Gregor Mendel and the laws of inheritance (1 article)
- The Whorflan Hypothesis proposed by B. L. Whorf (1 article)
- Lewis Henry Morgan: The founder of kinship studies (1 article)
- How humans see images of themselves in the phenomenon of anthropomorphism (1 article)
- Is DNA evidence as reliable as forensic evidence? (4 articles)
- Evidence of evolution: How scientists determine that evolution has occurred (1 article)
- Potawatomi nations in Canada (1 article)
- New dinosaur fossil discovery in Angola (1 article)
- Explaining Darwin's theory of natural selection (1 article)
- Ancient hunting weapons: The thrusting spear vs. projectiles (1 article)
- Introduction to the Neolithic (2 articles)
- How to plan a career in forensic anthropology (1 article)
- Introduction to art history: Prehistoric rock paintings (1 article)
- Neanderthal interaction with Cro-Magnons (2 articles)
- Understanding the relationship between natural selection and evolution (1 article)
- Introduction to the Bronze Age (6 articles)
- Technology issues created by irrational human behavior (1 article)
- Tool-making hominids: Zinjanthropus boisei (2 articles)
- Introduction to the Stone Age (9 articles)
- Book reviews: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham (1 article)
- How forensic anthropologists collect evidence (1 article)
- How Neanderthal man lived (3 articles)
- Aquatic ape hypothesis: Did early human evolution include an aquatic phase? (2 articles)
- What is environmental anthropology? (2 articles)
- General abilities of Homo erectus (2 articles)
- The fate of the Neanderthals (5 articles)
- Anthropology and the environment (1 article)
- Where do forensic anthropologists work? (1 article)
- What is forensic anthropology? (1 article)
- The essentials of physical anthropology (1 article)
- Introduction to natural selection (1 article)
- Explanation of the four sub-fields of anthropology (1 article)
- Scientific perspectives on anarchism (1 article)
- Book reviews: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham (1 article)
- Introduction to the Paleolithic (2 articles)
- The Levant in the late Bronze Age (1 article)
- The evidence of animistic thought from the Paleolithic (1 article)
- The early Epipaleolithic in the Levant (1 article)
- How to get started in an anthropology career (1 article)
- The history and significance of the Uluburun shipwreck (1 article)
- Anthropology behind Facebook (1 article)
- An overview of prehistoric Asia (1 article)


