List of basic archaeology topics
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Archaeology is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture, understand culture history, chronicle cultural evolution, and study human behavior and ecology, for both prehistoric and historic societies. It is considered, in North America, to be one of the four sub-fields of anthropology. Basic topics in archaeology include:
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[edit] Nature of archaeology
[edit] Branches of archaeology
[edit] Archaeological practice
[edit] Archaeological science
- Archaeometry
- Dendrochronology
- Isotope analysis
- Palynology
- Radiocarbon dating
- Zooarchaeology
- Geoarchaeology
- Bioarchaeology
- Archaeogenetics
- Computational archaeology
[edit] Archaeological subdisciplines
[edit] By location
[edit] By time period
- Industrial archaeology
- Near Eastern archaeology
- Biblical archaeology
- Medieval archaeology
- Post-medieval archaeology
- Modern archaeology
[edit] Specialites
- Aerial archaeology
- Archaeoastronomy
- Archaeological science
- Archaeozoology
- Archaeobotany or paleoethnobotany
- Battlefield archaeology
- Computational archaeology
- Experimental archaeology
- Environmental archaeology
- Forensic archaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Maritime archaeology
- Museum studies
- Paleopathology
[edit] History of archaeology
[edit] Archaeological methods
- Archaeological excavation
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological geophysics
- Maritime archaeology
[edit] Archaeological theory
- Great ages archaeology
- Functionalism
- Processualism / "New Archaeology"
- Post-processualism
- Cognitive archaeology
- Gender archaeology
- Feminist archaeology
- History of archaeology
[edit] Archaeology by Period
- Lower Palaeolithic
- Middle Palaeolithic
- Upper Palaeolithic
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- Chalcolithic
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Romans
- Anglo-Saxons
- Pre-Columbian
- Medieval
- Industrial
[edit] Basic archaeology concepts
- Alignment
- Archaeological association
- Archaeological context
- Archaeological culture
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological horizon
- Archaeological natural
- Archaeological phase
- Archaeological plan
- Archaeological record
- Archaeological sequence
- Archaeological site
- Archaeologist
- Artifact
- Assemblage
- Biofact
- Cairn
- Colluvium
- Cropmarks
- Cultural resources management
- Cut
- Dark earth
- Dating methodology
- Dendrochronology
- Deposit model
- Ecofact
- Excavation
- Feature
- Fill
- Fossil
- Geologic time scale
- Geomatics
- Grave goods
- Grave robbing
- Ground-penetrating radar
- Harris matrix
- Hoard
- King Tut
- Law of superposition
- Lithic analysis
- Manuport
- Megalithic tomb
- Midden
- Post excavation
- Projectile point
- Pyramid
- Radiocarbon dating
- Relationship
- Sarcophagus
- Sepulchre
- Seriation
- Small finds
- Stone tool
- Stratification
- Tomb
- Tutankhamun
- Votive deposit
- Votive site
