Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts...

Look up archaeology or archeology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Archaeology is the study of ancient cultures through examination of the artifacts...

of archaeological interest. In archaeology, the word has become a term of particular nuance and is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor...

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...

Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites...

The decade of the 1720s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen arrives at Easter Island. Formal excavations...

The decade of the 1710s in archaeology involved some significant events. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. 1710: A few remains of the Temple of...

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...

In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied...

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)...

The decade of the 1620s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1621: Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus in Rome. 1627: Parian Chronicle in Paros. 1625:...

The decade of the 1700s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1702: Heneage Finch excavates Julliberrie's Grave in Kent. 1704: The Carpentras...

Underwater archaeology is archaeology practiced underwater. As with all other branches of archaeology, it evolved from its roots in pre-history and in...

archaeology, sometimes called commercial archaeology, preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, contract archaeology, developer-funded archaeology...

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...

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...

Processual archaeology (formerly, the New Archaeology) is a form of archaeological theory. It had its beginnings in 1958 with the work of Gordon Willey...

European archaeology Russian archaeology Archaeology of the Americas Archaeology of Ayodhya Archaeology of the Channel Islands Archaeology of China Archaeology...

The decade of the 1640s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1649: John Aubrey describes the megaliths at Avebury, England. 1643: Athanasius...

The decade of the 1680s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma. 1685: Jacob...

The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1693 - Alfred Jewel discovered at North Petherton in Somerset, England. 1697...

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...

The decade of the 1630s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1632: Posthumous publication of Antonio Bosio's Roma Sotterranea, the results...

The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. 1738: First formal excavations of Herculaneum...

The decade of the 1650s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1655: William Dugdale - Monasticon Anglicanum begins publication. 1656: William...

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...

The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems...

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...

Experimental archaeology (also called experiment archaeology) is a field of study which attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses, usually...

Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with...