With its broadly based curiosity about humankind, anthropology focuses upon a variety of human experiences. While archaeology and physical anthropology explore the biological and prehistorical aspects of that evolutionary process, cultural anthropology and linguistics examine those practices which have allowed human beings to emerge as manipulators of environments and creators of communities, customs, and myths.

In an area particularly rich with prehistoric Native American artifacts and earthen mounds, ethnic American technology and folkways, Luther's anthropology program tests its classroom studies and theories against such substantial cultural expressions. Additionally, a laboratory containing thousands of prehistoric and historic artifacts provides an environment where analysis integrates concepts from biology and geology, history and sociology, and all those other academic areas which lend understanding to the mosaic of human experience and evolution.

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