Anthropology

The Macedonia archeology research project is an international collaboration between researchers in the US and Macedonia. The project focuses on the Hellenistic, or Macedonian, era and into the Roman conquest.

The Anthropology Department is located in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) Building. Facilities include state of the art lecture halls, ‘smart’ media classrooms, and custom laboratories. The Anthropology Teaching Lab (BSS 310) is a dedicated space for advanced courses in all of the anthropological subdisciplines, and it has a view of the bay!

Anthropology includes intersecting subfields of archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. Applied anthropology overlays the other fields of anthropology and aims to apply anthropological methods, theories, and practices to contemporary issues.

The Anthropology Department is located in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) Building, which was constructed in 2007, and meets the LEED gold rating by the U.S. Green Building Council. Facilities include state of the art lecture halls, ‘smart’ media classrooms, and custom laboratories.

Biological anthropology investigates human and nonhuman primate biology and evolution by studying biology (especially the skeleton), evolutionary theory, inheritance, the fossil record, and living primates. It looks at interrelationships between behavior, ecology, and biology.

Archaeology studies past and present cultures and cultural heritage preservation by unearthing, documenting, and analyzing materials.