Anthropology is the study of humanity and its works, from the most remote point in human history to the cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity of the present. The University of New Mexico Anthropology Department is firmly committed to a four-field approach to anthropology. Today its 29 full-time faculty members offer strong graduate and undergraduate programs in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Ethnology and Linguistic Anthropology, and Human Evolutionary Ecology. The Department works to integrate the sub fields within its course work and faculty research. Each of the four sub fields of anthropology contributes to an integrated picture of past and present human variation. By comparing information gathered about different human groups, anthropology can understand much about why human society is as we find it today, and can offer insights into contemporary problems.