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    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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    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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    Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The decade of the 1700s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1702: Heneage Finch excavates Julliberrie's Grave in Kent. 1704: The Carpentras...
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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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    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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    In archaeological excavation, a feature is a collection of one or more contexts representing some human non-portable activity, such as a hearth or wall...
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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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    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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    Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Chopper" archaeology – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2013) (Learn...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Feminist archaeology employs a feminist perspective in interpreting past societies. It often focuses on gender, but also considers gender in tandem with...
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  • The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1693 - Alfred Jewel discovered at North Petherton in Somerset, England. 1697...
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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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  • Software archaeology or source code archeology is the study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of software...
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  • The decade of the 1630s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1632: Posthumous publication of Antonio Bosio's Roma Sotterranea, the results...
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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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    archaeology, sometimes called commercial archaeology, preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, contract archaeology, developer-funded archaeology...
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  • The decade of the 1610s in archaeology involved some significant events, some of which are described here. 1613: Remains of the Temple of Proserpina were...
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  • The decade of the 1660s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1661: Athanasius Kircher discovers the ruins of a church in Rome said to have...
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  • Computational archaeology Ethnoarchaeology Taphonomy African archaeology Australian archaeology European archaeology Russian archaeology Archaeology of the Americas...
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