The ancient Egyptians saw the ankh as symbolic of life. Often seen in tombs of pharaohs the symbol held multiple meaning and its exact origin is unknown. A core subfield of anthropology focusing on the nature of human language and its relationship to culture . Historical linguistics, a specialty in linguistic anthropology of importance to biblical archaeology , consists of the classification and comparison of different languages to discern the historical links between languages. A specialist in the study of anthropology .
Anthropologists share a common perspective that is diachronic , holistic , and comparative .
Slowly emerging as a fifth subfield is applied anthropology . The attribution of human characteristics, e.g., hands, feet, emotions, and the like, to nonhuman beings or objects. People often use anthropomorphic terms to describe God. For most people to not do so relegates God to ethereal terms hard to understand. These are anthropomorphic terms.