Asia, Africa, Americas
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.
Our collections and research focus on material culture, ethnography, history and archaeology of the Indigenous peoples of Asia, Africa and the Americas.
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