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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites...
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  • The decade of the 1720s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen arrives at Easter Island. Formal excavations...
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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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  • 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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    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 1620s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1621: Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus in Rome. 1627: Parian Chronicle in Paros. 1625:...
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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 1670s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1673: December 11 - Gray's Inn Lane Hand Axe excavated in London and recognised...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • European archaeology Russian archaeology Archaeology of the Americas Archaeology of Ayodhya Archaeology of the Channel Islands Archaeology of China Archaeology...
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  • The decade of the 1680s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma. 1685: Jacob...
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  • The decade of the 1640s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1649: John Aubrey describes the megaliths at Avebury, England. 1643: Athanasius...
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    archaeology, sometimes called commercial archaeology, preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, contract archaeology, developer-funded archaeology...
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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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  • 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 decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. 1738: First formal excavations of Herculaneum...
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  • The decade of the 1650s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1655: William Dugdale - Monasticon Anglicanum begins publication. 1656: William...
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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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  • 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 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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  • The decade of the 1600s in archaeology involved some significant events. c.1600: The Savile Map of Bath, England is drawn (discovered in 1977 by Anne...
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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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    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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