What is "physical anthropology"

Usage examples of "physical anthropology".

For seventeen years the drovers and gandy dancers who thawed their boots here and heard Nigger George speculate on the meaning of the Dead Horse Arroyo bones had a clearer idea of the prehistory of their continent than did all the certified brains of the Department of Physical Anthropology of the National Museum.

Since all other Niger-Congo speakers, as well as the Bantu, are blacks, we couldn't have inferred who migrated in which direction just from the evidence of physical anthropology.

Even in a museum known for its high dust tolerance, the door to the Physical Anthropology lab--or Skeleton Room, as the staff universally referred to it--was almost unbelievably grimy.

And at this point, they could use any lead they could find: The skeletons from the Physical Anthropology lab had provided no clues.

Ignoring his next class, Physical Anthropology (always good for a few humiliating moments), he hurried across David Street, pass-big Atlanta Hope without noticing her, and slammed into his room, chain-bolting the door behind him.

She'd hated physical anthropology, suffered through the courses I loved.

Richardson specialized in physical anthropology, and thought the cultural half of the discipline a waste of time.

Enoch Leng, wishes access to the collections of anthropology and mammalogy to conduct research on taxonomy and classification, and to prepare comparative essays in physical anthropology, human osteology, and phrenology.

Mine is forensic anthropology,' which is a part of physical anthropology.