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1920s in anthropology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4560935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Timeline of anthropology, 1920–1929

Events

1922

Nanook of the North is released in theatres.

1924

Taung child fossil discovered.

Editorial summary

“1920s in anthropology” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 1920s, anthropology and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1929, 1922, 1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 1920s, anthropology and Open-knowledge.
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“1920s in anthropology” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, 1920s, anthropology and Open-knowledge provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4560935. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1929, 1922 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “1920s in anthropology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.