History Web Pages Copyright, 2000. It is the systematic recovery of material evidence of man s past.
Archaeology is usually a subdivision of Anthropology, the study of man.
For a good introduction to Archaeology read Invitation to Archaeology by James Deetz. Archaeology has divided the Quaternary period up into ages that reflect the production of different tools. The oldest is the Paleolithic age which stretches back into the Pleistocene to almost 2 million years ago with the first crude tools. Here man made tools, like spears and arrow heads, out of stones. Men were hunters and gatherers.