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The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) was organised to promote empirical research and social science in anthropology. The members of SAS want to further the development of anthropological science as empirical knowledge based on testable theory, sound research design and systematic methods for the collection and analysis of data. We seek to fulfill the historic mission of anthropology to describe and explain the range of variation in human biology, society, and culture across time and space.

The Society aims particularly to support younger anthropologists. Members of the Society are involved in the development of methods, examples, and mentoring, as well as in pursuing their own work. The position of the Society regarding Anthropological Sciences is broad and inclusive, but the Society does not intend to suggest that all anthropological research can be subsumed within the sciences. Indeed, we believe that a viable anthropology must be strong in all of its roots from the Humanities to the Sciences. The Society was formed because of diminishing support for science based anthropology, particularly in the United States which was undermining the unique identity that anthropology had developed over the years to provide added-value over disciplines that were more focused on one approach or another.

This wiki aims to support this role by helping to create and support a vitual community, by providing a forum for the dissemination of good practice, methods and discussion.