EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 09 January 2023Sec. Paleontology Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1111339

For over a century, Americanist anthropologists have argued about whether their discipline is a historical one or a scientific one. Proponents of anthropology as history have claimed that the lineages of human cultures are made up of unique events that cannot be generalized into laws. If no laws can be drawn, then anthropology cannot be a science. Proponents of anthropology as science have clai...