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Anthropology Timeline: Major Eras, Breakthroughs, and Turning Points

The timeline of anthropology is not a simple march from error to truth. It is a layered history shaped by travel, empire, museums, missionary encounter, scientific curiosity, linguistic documentation, fieldwork, war, decolonization, Indigenous critique, and changes in what counts as evidence. The field gradually became recognizable as a modern discipline, but its roots go much further back in descriptions of unfamiliar peoples, reflections on human difference, and early attempts to classify social life. To understand anthropology well, it helps to know not only what the field studies, but how it became what it is.

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