Explore Anthropology Collections

Explore Anthropology

Anthropology has four subdisciplines:

• Physical Anthro (also called Biological Anthro)
• Cultural Anthro (Also called Ethnology)
• Archaeology
• Linguistic Anthro

Contact Jayne Smithson, Lead Faculty of the Anthropology Program at College of Alameda, at jsmithson@peralta.edu or stop by my office in CoA main campus room C-103 for a tour of our facilities and collections:

• Modern Human Skeletal Variation collection
• Forensic Anthropology collection
• Primate Osteology collection
• Non-primate Osteology collection
• Early Hominins collection
• Early Humans collection, including real stone tools
• Archaeology collections
  • Archaeology Research Facility
  • Artifacts from 1860-1880 from the SF Trans-Bay Tube excavations