Palaeoarchaeology

Palaeoarchaeology (or paleoarcheology) is the archaeology of deep time.^[1]

Interest in the field of study began in the late 1850s and early 1860s, with a shift in interest caused by the discoveries made by Boucher de Perthes, after Joseph Prestwich, Hugh Falconer, and John Evans had visited Boucher de Perthes's site in the Somme valley themselves. Two such archaeologist who had been attracted to join archaeological societies by palaeoarchaeology were Augustus Pitt Rivers and Edward Burnett Tylor. Evans, Pitt Rivers, and John Lubbock all promoted interest in the field, each an enthusiast and each quickly rising to positions of authority and influence within archaeological circles. In 1868, for example, they together organized, in conjunction with the annual general meeting in Norwich of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Third International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology.^[2]

References

1. ^ David G. Anderson (2003). Archaeology is anthropology. Archeological papers of the American Anthropological Association. 13. American Anthropological Association. pp. 51. ISBN 1931303126. 
2. ^ William Chapman (1989). "Towards an Institutional History of Archaeology: British Archaeologists and Allied Interests in the 1860s". In Andrew L. Christenson. Tracing archaeology's past: the historiography of archaeology. Publications in archaeology. SIU Press. pp. 156–158. ISBN 0809315238. 

Further reading

• Geoffrey A. Clark (2009). "Accidents of History: Conceptual Frameworks in Palaeoarchaeology". In Marta Camps and Parth Chauhan. Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions: Methods, Theories, and Interpretations. Springer. pp. 19–42. ISBN 038776478X.