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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In archaeology, earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles of artificially placed or sculpted rocks and soil. Earthworks...
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Queer archaeology is an approach to archaeology that uses queer theory to challenge normative, and especially heteronormative, views of the past. Queer...
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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; it is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor...
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two conceptualisations of data archaeology, the technical definition and the social science definition. Data archaeology (also data archeology) in 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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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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Historical archaeology is a form of archaeology dealing with places, things, and issues from the past or present when written records and oral traditions...
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The archaeology of ancient Egypt is the study of the archaeology of Egypt, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. Egyptian...
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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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Conflict archaeology is a sub-discipline within archaeology focused on intergroup and intragroup conflict. Closely linked to battlefield archaeology and Military...
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Aerial archaeology is the study of archaeological sites from the air. It is a method of archaeological investigation that uses aerial photography, remote...
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Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that...
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Household archaeology has a long history of anthropological inquiry. Archaeological investigations of the household serve as a microcosm for the greater...
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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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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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Cognitive archaeology is a theoretical perspective in archaeology that focuses on the ancient mind. It is divided into two main groups: evolutionary cognitive...
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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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Headland Archaeology Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the RSK Group. Headland provides archaeological services and heritage advice to the construction...
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Landscape archaeology, previously known as total archaeology is a sub-discipline of archaeology and archaeological theory. It studies the ways in which...
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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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Contemporary archaeology is a field of archaeological research that focuses on the most recent (20th and 21st century) past, and also increasingly explores...
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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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This page lists significant events in 2025 in archaeology. 14 – Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia reported on the results of a mapping...
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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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This page lists significant events of 2024 in archaeology. 4 – A rock-cut tomb dating back to the Second Dynasty was uncovered in Saqqara by a team of...
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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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In archaeology, a tell (from Arabic: تَلّ, tall, 'mound' or 'small hill') is an artificial topographical feature, a mound consisting of the accumulated...
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