This comprehensive encyclopedia will provide a wide variety of scientific, technological, and policy information that will be useful in the context of sustainable development.
Archaeology is one of the contributions to the encyclopedia.
The archaeological record, the physical remains of past human behavior, is an source of information about the past that is independent of the written record, memory, or contemporary observation. Archaeology is capable of documenting and interpreting the successes and failures of human life support systems in a wide variety of global environments and over a very long time period. Archaeological images of the past provide analogs for success and failure that have significant implications for planning global sustainable development in the future. The AAAS WWW server is maintained by the AAAS Webmaster . Please forward all comments or corrections to the appropriate person.