The Ancient Americas

Focusing on the types of diverse and complex societies in the Americas before European conquest, The Ancient Americas explores the challenges that human beings everywhere have faced for millennia. The Ancient Americas tells the story of how culture changes as people, influenced by their environment, history, and creativity, adapt to changing circumstances with different solutions. Within the exhibit, the concepts of cultural evolution or change, classification, continuity, and more are explored.

To learn more about some of the basic anthropological concepts covered in The Ancient Americas exhibition, please select from the following:

	Culture and Change Examine the definition of culture and find out when, why, and how cultures change over time and around the world.
	Organizing Cultural Diversity Find out how and why anthropologists and archaeologists create various organizational systems to help them study human cultures.
	Cultural Evolution Explore the concept of cultural evolution and discover some of the ways scholars have looked at human cultural diversity over time.

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