page_title: American anthropology
hierarchical_section_title: American anthropology
caption_attribution_description: English: full photo of Gobustan rock drawing
context_page_description: American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept. This most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially. American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture:
  biological anthropology
  linguistic anthropology
  cultural anthropology
  archaeology
  Research in these fields has influenced anthropologists working in other countries to different degrees.
context_section_description: American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept. This most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially. American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture:
  biological anthropology
  linguistic anthropology
  cultural anthropology
  archaeology
  Research in these fields has influenced anthropologists working in other countries to different degrees.
caption: Petroglyphs in modern-day Gobustan, Azerbaijan, dating back to 10 000 BCE and indicating a thriving culture
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