Photographs relating to physical anthropologists from the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the United States. Many of the photographs depict Smithsonian staff, particularly Ales Hrdlicka and T.

In 1904, Physical Anthropology was added to the Division. The Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) was created in 1879 as a research unit of the Smithsonian, separating research from collections care.

The Department of Anthropology offers a broad range of graduate studies in the subfields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, medical anthropology and physical anthropology, designed to provide ...

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Additionally, the physical anthropology collection showcases mummies, skulls and partial skeletons dating back to 13,000 B.C.

A 4,000-year-old human rib bearing arrowhead found in Spain’s Pyrenees reveals signs of survival after a violent Bronze Age ...

New findings by researchers at the University of Montpellier, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.