The field site used to be a village you reached by boat. It is now just as likely to be a server, a supply chain, a warming coastline, or a mass grave. Tap each frontier to see where the discipline is going — then switch panes to see what refuses to change.
The horizon
Fields it draws on
Cultural
Archaeo
Biological
Linguistic
Eight directions, one discipline.
The future of the fieldtap a frontier to begin
A discipline in motionAnthropology is not running out of things to study — it is running out of places that stay put. Migration, platforms, climate and global health have all made the classic single-village field site too small a container, and the discipline has spent the last thirty years redesigning around that. Tap any frontier to see who is doing the work and what it costs.