I have a friend at church who has a PhD in archaeology and teaches at a Community College. I’ve learned a lot about the pure fakery that goes on in archaeology and by extension anthroplogy. An incredible amount of the stuff these “disciplines” claim is purely invented out of thin air.
For example, those hominid finds in Africa. The ages of these bones are usually determined by having an expert look at them and then just make up a number based on how old they look. Bones found in the exact same strata will be given wildly different ages so as to not interfere with the “settled science”. Don’t like anomalies? Just hide them in university archives.
If you don’t wear a hat and carry a whip, you’re not an archaeologist. Hollywood taught me that.