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From The Beginning of Time
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Describe the role of an anthropologist. How it helps the Historian?

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The role of an Anthropologist is described below :


(i) To understand the physical characteristics of man as well as his relation or behaviour to his environment.

(ii) To work for understanding the culture of a society by the help of artifacts and pictures besides taking the help of monuments and dwellings.

Helps to the Historians:

(i)It is due to the work of anthropologists that the historians have drawn the pen picture of the progress of man and society since the prehistoric period.

(ii)They have gained the knowledge of physical characteristics of the early man from the skeletons collected by these scholars and from artifacts, pictures, dwelling and monuments provided by them.

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