Historical Comparative Anthropology——Research on Human Biological Lineage

Based in the subject range defined by USA anthropology,we extract physical anthropology and linguistics,plus the surname study in Chinese history field,and a subject is thus structured: historical anthropology.Historical anthropology is an interdisciplinary subject,involving the three subjects of historical physical anthropology(physical anthropology),historical linguistic anthropology(comparative linguistics) and historical surname anthropology(surname study).Different from the past anthropologies,firstly,historical anthropology excludes social anthropology or cultural anthropology,and instead,it adds surname study;secondly,it extends the historical method originated from comparative linguistics to physical anthropology and surname study.The research object of historical anthropology is: human biological lineage;the research target of historical anthropology is: to structure human collective lineage with physique,surname and language.