Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts...
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An archaeology museum is a museum that specializes in the display of archaeological artifacts. Many archaeology museum are in the open air, such as the...
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Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites...
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An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary)...
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This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y...
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In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied...
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The decade of the 1770s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1773: Don Ramon de Ordoñez y Aguilar examines the ruins of Palenque and sends...
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Russian archaeology begins in the Russian Empire in the 1850s and becomes Soviet archaeology in the early 20th century. The journal Sovetskaya arkheologiya...
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Processual archaeology (formerly, the New Archaeology) is a form of archaeological theory. It had its beginnings in 1958 with the work of Gordon Willey...
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archaeology, sometimes called commercial archaeology, preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, contract archaeology, developer-funded archaeology...
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of archaeological interest. In archaeology, the word has become a term of particular nuance and is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor...
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Experimental archaeology (also called experiment archaeology) is a field of study which attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses, usually...
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Computational archaeology Ethnoarchaeology Taphonomy African archaeology Australian archaeology European archaeology Russian archaeology Archaeology of the Americas...
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The decade of the 1710s in archaeology involved some significant events. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. 1710: A few remains of the Temple of...
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Stratigraphy is a key concept to modern archaeological theory and practice. Modern excavation techniques are based on stratigraphic principles. The concept...
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The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems...
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Look up archaeology or archeology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Archaeology is the study of ancient cultures through examination of the artifacts...
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Archaeology is a bimonthly magazine for the general public, published by the Archaeological Institute of America. The institute also publishes the professional...
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Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with...
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Underwater archaeology is archaeology practiced underwater. As with all other branches of archaeology, it evolved from its roots in pre-history and in...
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Levant (section In archaeology: a definition)
political term Middle East. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a stretch...
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In archaeology, survey or field survey is a type of field research by which archaeologists (often landscape archaeologists) search for archaeological sites...
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Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists...
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The decade of the 1620s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1621: Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus in Rome. 1627: Parian Chronicle in Paros. 1625:...
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David L. Clarke (redirect from Analytical archaeology)
archaeologist and academic. He is well known for his work on processual archaeology. Clarke was born in Kent, England. He studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge...
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Archaeology in India is mainly done under the supervision of the Archaeological Survey of India. 12th century Indian scholar Kalhana's writings involved...
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The Istanbul Archaeology Museums (Turkish: İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) are a group of three archaeological museums located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul...
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the core issues of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Modern archaeology has identified 12 ancient inscriptions from Egyptian and Assyrian records...
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Levantine archaeology is the archaeological study of the Levant. It is also known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology or Palestinian archaeology (particularly...
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(b. 1938) Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest Archaeology Museum Piatra Neamț Iron...
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