What does it mean to be human? A multidimensional study of humankind integrating many perspectives on human diversity into a single discipline, anthropology examines this question in social scientific, biocultural, and humanistic terms. By studying how people adapt to environments, create complex cultural systems, and weather political-economic transitions in the past and present, we explore the human condition.
Dartmouth's Department of Anthropology offers a four-field program of study in archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology to contribute to a global picture of the human experience. Crossing boundaries that have separated the humanities and sciences, anthropology students at Dartmouth examine both the organic evolution of our biological family and the variety and unity of peoples, societies, and cultures worldwide and across millennia.

