Welcome to the Anthropology Program
Students try to identify human ancestors from casts of their skulls.
Anthropology is the study of humankind, a multidisciplinary endeavor involving the social sciences, the humanities, and the natural sciences. Anthropologists study the human species and the human condition in all its diversity. Anthropologists ask questions such as: "Who are we?" "Where did we come from?" "How did we get here?" "Why are we different from each other?" And, "How can we better understand each other?" Studies in anthropology might focus, for example, on our distant human ancestors from the African plains, modern workers in a high-tech factory, historic military forts in the Mesilla Valley, Native American languages, or prehistoric or contemporary cultures of the American Southwest.