How is anthropology related to archaeology?

Answer 1

Short answer--anthropology is the study of man--and since mankind goes back a ways, it's basically a history of man.

Archaeology is just the study of "old" stuff. so, any relation would have to be in how man used whatever old items are found-and how it can be determined how they were used by man based on how they are found.

Answer 2

This depends where you are in the world, really. In the United States, anthropology has four fields: Cultural, Physical (human genetics, human evolution, primatology, forensic anthropology, etc), Linguistics, and Archaeology (which in some eyes is more general material culture studies including pop culture and garbology).

In European circles, archaeology and anthropology are divorced from one another, and in some programs in the United States things are more fragmented. In the U.S., I think there may be one or two schools that offer an undergraduate degree in archaeology, but in almost every department it is viewed as a graduate level specialization of anthropology of some sort. American anthropology was founded on the study of Native Americans, who continue to be a contemporary, separate people; archaeology tries to bring the past into the present for study in an attempt to understand how contemporary cultures developed.

Answer 3

bluecloud and almethod are pretty right, but I would explain it differently: Anthropology and Archaeology are just different ways of studying the same thing.

Social anthropology studies human societies by observing the living society: looking at how a society's authority and kinship structures work, their beliefs, taboos, etc. Archaeology also studies human society but it does it by studying things that societies have left behind ("artefacts") rather than living people. Linguists study society by studying its language. almethod covered physical anthropology.

Answer 4

Archeology is one of the four sub-fields of Anthropology.

The others are Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Anthropological Linguistics.

As Anthropology is the study of human cultures and societies in the broadest terms, Archeology is the study of past human cultures and societies.

Answer 5

Anthropology is the study of man and his relation to his environment.
Archeology is a tool of science; it deals with artifacts from the past.
History is the study of the written record. i think that is the only difference between history and archeology.

Answer 6

i dont think it is, anthropology is the study of human essense (r we eternal? were we born pure or evil? where do we go after we die?) and archaeology is the study of bones and artifacts im pretty sure.
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