Anthropology is the broad study of humankind around the world and throughout time

Anthropology is the broad study of humankind around the world and throughout time. It is concerned with both the biological and the cultural aspects of humans. The discipline of anthropology is comprised of four main subdivisions which are all integrated, resulting in a holistic or full perspective our species including: our historical development as a species (evolution), our unrecorded history (archaeology), our current ways of life (social and cultural anthropology) and our ways of expressing ourselves (linguistics).

Physical/Biological Anthropology

Mechanisms of biological evolution,
the fossil record of human evolution
genetic inheritance,
human adaptability and variation,
primatology,
forensic anthropology

Archaeology

Prehistory and early history of cultures around the world;

major trends in cultural evolution; and techniques for finding, excavating, dating, and analyzing material remains of past societies

Salvage archaeology – site preservation

Cultural Anthropology

The study of the cultural aspects of language and communication, subsistence and other economic patterns, kinship, sex and marriage, socialization, social control, political organization, class, ethnicity, gender, religion,
culture change

Linguistic Anthropology

The human communication process focusing on the importance of socio-cultural influences; nonverbal communication; tracing historical relationships (glottochronology)

the structure, function, and history of languages, dialects, pidgins, and creoles