人类学和考古学系采用国际“四领域”方法，将考古学与进化，社会和语言人类学相结合。我们的主要优势在于我们采用综合方法来理解文化，生物和社会变化：人民，他们的思想和物质手工艺品的传播。我们特别关注适应，逆境和全球化。我们的研究范围从最早的史前到现代。实地研究在英国，埃塞俄比亚，坦桑尼亚，肯尼亚，斯洛文尼亚，土耳其，秘鲁，越南和巴布亚新几内亚等地进行。我们具备进行人类学和考古学实地考察（包括发掘）的能力，并且拥有世界一流的放射性碳测年，同位素和微成像实验室。
The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology has an international 'four-field' approach, combining archaeology with evolutionary, social and linguistic anthropology. Our key strengths lie in our integrated approaches to understanding cultural, biological and social diversity and change. We focus particularly on adaptation, adversity and globalisation. Our research themes include 'Ecologies', 'Liveable Futures', 'Transitions and Turbulence', and 'Connections and Methods'.<br><br>Our research spans from earliest prehistory to the modern day. Field research takes place in the UK, as well as Bhutan, Brazil, China, Colombia, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Venezuela, and elsewhere.<br><br>We are well equipped to undertake anthropological and archaeological fieldwork, including excavation, and we have world-class radiocarbon dating, isotopic and micro-imaging laboratories on site. We foster partnerships with professional institutions nationally and locally to provide additional collaborative opportunities for our students (for example, with the Royal Anthropological Institute Ethnographic Film Festival, UNESCO City of Film, and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery).<br><br>In addition, we draw on expertise and facilities from across the University (such as the Brigstow Institute, Cabot Institute for the Environment, Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, Jean Golding Institute). We also work closely with institutes and centres in the Faculties of Social Sciences and Law (Migration Mobilities Bristol, the Centre for Environmental Humanities, and the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science), as well as the Faculty of Science (Bristol Isotope Group, Organic Geochemistry Unit).