人类学哲学博士

人类学是在文化，生物和环境背景下研究古代和现代人类的研究。该学科结合了广泛的理论和方法论传统，借鉴了人文，社会科学和自然科学的方法并对其做出了贡献。考古学家主要通过对遗留的物质文化和环境数据的恢复和分析来研究过去的人类社会。CU Boulder的生物人类学研究生课程提供了多个领域的培训，包括灵长类动物学，人类生物学和古人类学。文化人类学是人类学的子领域，涉及过去和现在人类社会中的文化变异和普遍性。在CU-Boulder，区域专业知识从北极延伸到东非，从加勒比地区到西藏。
The archaeology subdiscipline provides continuous geographic coverage of ancient societies from the Plains of North America through the Southwest and Mesoamerica to the Intermediate Area. The native societies range from egalitarian hunter-gatherers through middle range societies to city-states and empires. The faculty's theoretical and topical interests include human ecology, ethnoarchaeology, community archaeology, agency and social theory, lithic and ceramic analyses, remote sensing and geophysical applications in archaeology.<br><br>Archaeology links with biological anthropology in a number of ways. For instance, archaeologists encountering burials frequently turn to biological anthropologists for analyses of stature, health and other topics. Many archaeologists and biological anthropologists share a deep interest in human ecology, the ways people have adapted to their environments and have affected those environments.<br><br>Archaeology also relates to cultural anthropology in significant ways, since much archaeological theory is derived from cultural theory. Given the vast diachronic interests of archaeology, significant archaeological theory is also derived independently from ethnography. Ethnoarchaeology spans the two subdisciplines, as archaeologists study the material culture of functioning contemporary societies to learn how better to make inferences about past behavior. Both archaeology and cultural anthropology study ethnic and political groups in contact with each other, including topics of ethnohistory, migration, acculturation, trade and tribute, conquest, information sharing, elite emulation and the rise of multiethnic powers.