Example Sentences

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Anthropologists rely on them to reconstruct ancient diets, lifestyles and health.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Anthropologists believe the Hadzabe—who number fewer than 1,300 people—have roamed the Yaeda Valley in northern Tanzania for more than 50,000 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Anthropologists have long demonstrated that gifts, particularly extravagant gifts, are never free.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2025

Anthropologists are encouraging the Penn Museum to wait, saying the process has been rushed.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2024

Anthropologists formerly idealized band and tribal societies as gentle and nonviolent, because visiting anthropologists observed no murder in a band of 25 people in the course of a three-year study.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond