The past decade has had its fair share of events which marked a significant milestone in our lives. From the Economic Recession of 2008 that led to job loss, foreclosure and bankruptcy, to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, and the devastating tsunami off the Indonesian coast of Sumatra in [...]

Anthropology Research 1. Describe horticulture as a subsistence strategy, and contrast it with hunting-and-gathering. Horticulture is a type of primitive agriculture that relies primarily on localized inputs: human labor, locally made tools, and sometimes animals for traction, plowing, pumping, and transport. Subsistence agriculture is generally aimed at household provisioning rather than investment, and it satisfies [...]

In order to answer this question it is firstly necessary to highlight the issues surrounding the colonial endeavour. We will firstly examine colonialism of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the context of anthropological development. To illustrate the impact of this we will focus on the African empire and demonstrate the influence of [...]

How does Anthropology differ from other disciplines that study humans? Anthropology is the study of mankind across time in all places of the world. The word derives from the Greeks. The study of mankind everywhere, throughout time. It seeks to produce reliable knowledge about people and their behavior, both about the things they all share [...]

Fossils representing the precursors of the primates may go back before the extinction of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. There are some primate-like teeth and bones found in Montana and Wyoming, dated from 60 to 65 maya. But the first undisputed primates appear about 55 maya. These early primates, despite the modern primate arboreal [...]