The Department of Anthropology, established in 2012 within Hitit University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, continues its academic work with a total of seven faculty members and one research assistant in the departments of Paleoanthropology, Physical Anthropology, and Social Anthropology.
The 2021-2022 Spring Semester Master's Program has opened, and the first students in the Anthropology Thesis-Based Program have begun their studies.
Paleoanthropology: This is the branch of science that studies human origins and development. Paleoanthropology examines skeletal materials and fossils from past societies to understand their demographic structure, age and gender distribution, health problems, and kinship relationships with other communities.
Physical Anthropology: This is the branch of science that examines humans' place in the living world, their intraspecific variations (biodiversity), their biological structure, growth and development, genetic characteristics, their adaptation to environmental changes, and their morphological, anatomical, and physiological structures and characteristics using metric and morphological methods.
Social Anthropology: It can be defined as the comparative study of human behavior. All kinds of relationships, including behaviors, ideas, principles, values, religious ceremonies, organizational methods, and technologies, which constitute all components of a society, are subjects of Social Anthropology.
Anthropologists have employment opportunities in both the public and private sectors. They work in institutions and organizations within the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (HAGEM, museums, etc.). They can also serve as social researchers in relevant units of organizations such as the State Planning Organization, the Turkish Statistical Institute, and TRT. In recent years, anthropologists have been employed in the Central Intelligence Agency (MIT), the General Directorate of Security, and the Department of Forensic Medicine.
