Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology (from Greek ἀρχαιολογία, archaiologia – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaīos, "ancient"; and -λογία, -logiā, "-logy"), is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture and environmental data which they have left behind, which includes artefacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record). The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history. In the United States it is thought of as a branch of anthropology, altho ...more

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Every human catastrophe, however, is archaeology's gain. ...more
Robert Garland , The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World

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Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle. ...more
Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

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