Topic:Archeology
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Welcome to the Division of Archaeology. (See also: School:Archeology)
Archaeology is the subdiscipline of Anthropology that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, ecofacts, human remains, and landscapes. It is at the same time a part of history. In other words it uses archaeological records to infer past human behaviour. Edward Tylor (1871) describes cultural scope of archaeology as knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and other essentials in society to become a member. It is a discipline both historical and humanistic. But like in science it requires data in first place and then statements and judgments and in its last phase hypotheses. One way of defining the evidence is Middle Range Theory. In the last 3-4 decades archaeology is concerned with also historical periods.
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- Archaeological Theories
- Archaeological Practices
- Archaeological Field Methods
- Archaeology of Specific Remains
- Archaeology of Specific Peoples and Civilizations
- Archaeometry or Scientific Archaeology
- Bioarchaeology
- Cultural and Societal Archaeology
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Geoarchaeology
- History of Archaeology
- Nautical Archaeology
- Regional Archaeology
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- iDaniel
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- Danfly
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- 25 February 2007 - Division founded!
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