The premier anthropological index, it covers the 900 serials and monographic series received by the Tozzer Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. These include articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries. Emphasis is on the fields of archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, cultural and social anthropology, and linguistics. Also included are articles in related fields such as sociology, history, ethnohistory, demography, geography, human genetics, and international development. The indexing covers items of two pages or more.
Emphasis is on materials published in English, French, German, Spanish, and Slavic languages.
In Feb. 2000 there were approximately 500,000 records. About 3,000 records are added quarterly. Can be particularly useful as introduction to the literature. See annotation above. Anthropological Index Strength is Iron Age Europe.