How are anthropologists and archaeologists alike?

Answer 1

Archaeologists and historians both study the past, however they tend to look at different types of evidence. Historians study written information such as books, diaries, maps, letters and inscriptions from the past while archaeologists focus more on material remains such as pots, tools, buildings, and physical remains of people and animals.

Answer 2

Sort of. They're both anthropological fields and they both contain elements of each other. Archaeologists focus on concrete things: artifacts, architecture, etc. Historians are more focused on everything as a whole writing and Is_there_a_similarity_between_an_archaeologist_and_an_historianhistory itself .

Answer 3

In the United States, we use a "four-field approach" to anthropology. That means the academic field of anthropology includes cultural anthropology, biological or physical anthropology, linguistics, and Archaeology. When most people hear the word "anthropologist," they tend to think of a cultural anthropologist, who spends a period of time (usually at least one year) living with and observing a group of people of a different culture. Cultural anthropologists traditionally studied non-Western, non-industrialized people (sometimes referred to as "3rd World"--a VERY non-anthropological term!), but today's anthropologists study all kinds of people--no one is off-limits for an anthropological study. Anthropologists are particularly interested in the kinship structure, marriage traditions, gender patterns, political and social organization and hierarchy, and religion of the people they are studying, although they usually choose only one or a few of these topics to focus on during their research.

Archaeologists study the material remains of dead people--you could say they study the same things as cultural anthropologists, but among people who are no longer with us. There are dozens of specialties within archaeology,however. Some archaeologists may focus on only the type of plant foods a group was eating (paleoethnobotany), or pollen samples at archaeological sites (palynology). Others may specialize in the types of projectile points and other stone tools used by a group (lithics specialists) or the type of pottery they created (ceramicists).

One very important point: archaeologists only study HUMANS and our hominid human ancestors, dating back about 7 million years ago.

Answer 4

They both study an area of study. The fact they have “ologist” in their area of research tells us that they are the study of a subject.