Anthropology
Anthropology has four main branches:
- archaeology, which focuses on past human cultures;
- cultural anthropology, which examines social customs and behaviours of living groups;
- physical anthropology, which explores humans origins, genetics and biological development; and
- linguistics, the study of human languages.
At the Australian Museum we specialise mainly in archaeology and cultural anthropology. Our collections and research focus on material culture, ethnography, history and archaeology of the Indigenous peoples of Australia.
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