Pictured: Professor Cox in the clifftop village of Bonifacio, Corsica
Corsica, a unique island near Italy in the Mediterranean sea, perfectly demonstrates the 4 fields of anthropology. Ancient burials revealed skeletons as old as 8,000 BCE (biological anthropology). There are unusual standing stones dating from 1500 BCE, Roman bridges from the 3rd century, and Genoese fortresses from the 13th century (archaeology). The Corsican language is an Italo-Dalmation dialect which evolved in the medieval era (linguistic anthropology). Today, Corsican cuisine is a mixture of indigenous, Italian, and French traditions, and they even have their own unique form of polyphonic singing (cultural anthropology).
