Archaeology
* Greek word that means the study of everything ancient.
* Most archaeology is cultural resource management.
* acts as an academic fulcrum, integrating several fields of scholarly endeavor.
* also includes earlier pre-historic time periods.
* approaches the study of humankind from the things that people have left behind.
* attempts to understand prehistory through the study of artifacts.
* attests a world come apart.
* branch of anthropology.
* can help provide a historical foundation for biblical faith
  - reinforce various faiths
* comes from the Greek archaiologia , meaning the discussion of antiquities.
* confirms that they are one of the earliest races of people.
* considers everything related to the human past
  - past human life and how societies grow, change and become extinct
* employs scientific methodology.
* examines the material remains of historic and prehistoric cultures.
* examines the physical records of past cultures
  - remains past human activities have left
* field that is also using computer modeling.
* focus within the Anthropology major, rather than a major.
* focuses on cultural history and strives to learn how human societies have changed.
* global discipline with no time restrictions.
* has less emphasis on natural sciences.
* interprets events and artifacts from the past.
* involves careful planning and the development of questions about the human past
  - discovery, scientific analysis, creative imagination, and interpretation
  - the careful measurement of the location of finds, walls, buildings and so on
* is about anthropology - the study of humankind
  - digging
* is about discovery, a kind of detective work into the ancient past
  - finding things that nobody has found before
  - making connections between people and what they left behind
  - also a science, and it sometimes creates more questions than answers
* is an ever-changing field of study
  - ideal way to synthesize history, art, religion and science
  - interpretive science
  - objective science
  - archaeology whether it is under or above the water
  - broken up into a number of sub-fields
  - concerned with understanding societies that existed in the past
  - considered a branch of anthropology, the study of humanity and human culture
  - incapable of dating anything well enough to see 'point events' of any kind
  - interested in human beings who lived in former ages
  - labor intensive work that is both physically and mentally demanding
  - like owning an exotic car or motorbike
  - more than the study of very ancient civilizations
  - normally the examination of bits and scraps of people's behavior from the past
  - often of hunters and gatherers
  - one area of the sciences that interests everyone
* is one of the four fields of anthropology
  - primary sources of urban planning
  - technique of recovering the past
  - part of the larger discipline of anthropology
  - predicated on the notion of systematic, objective recording of data
* is the excavation and study of the material remains left by past communities
  - means of studying past human ways of life
  - only way to reconstruct the past for the prehistoric period
  - part of anthropology which examines the lives and cultures of former societies
  - physical manifestation of our heritage
  - recovery and study of physical evidence
  - science that studies human life through the physical remains of human activities
* is the science that studies the artifacts that previous residents left behind
  - physical remains of the human past
* is the scientific study of human behavior based on material remains
  - cultures based on analysis of material remains
* is the scientific study of past human cultures through their physical remains
  - peoples and their cultures
  - the past through material evidence that people leave behind
  - study and interpretation of that heritage for the benefit of society as a whole
* is the study of ancient human history
  - how humans lived in earlier times
  - man s past
* is the study of material remains of past human life and activities
  - such as artifacts and features and their contexts
* is the study of old monuments, relics, inscriptions, excavation sites etc
  - objects called artifacts
* is the study of past cultures and their remains
* is the study of past human activities through the evidence of surviving physical traces
  - people by the things they left behind
  - peoples through the things they left behind
* is the study of people in the past based on their material remains
  - the past through the material remains they leave behind
  - societies that have come and gone
  - the ancient and recent human past through material remains
* is the study of the human past by analysis of the physical remains of human behaviour
  - interactions of humans and prehistoric animals, such as dinosaurs
  - lifeways of people who existed in the past
  - material remains of past human behavior
  - past with a focus on human behavior
  - where people came from and what they did
  - usually a subdivision of Anthropology, the study of man
* is, quite simply, the study of human cultures from around the world and throughout time.
* large part of how the history of Germany has been compiled.
* looks at the physical records of past cultures.
* multidisciplinary field.
* needs archaeometry to achieve the same borrowing efficiency to study cultural remains.
* neglected field of study in eastern India.
* only deals with the human past.
* process of reinterpretation.
* science devoted to answering questions about the past
  - in which the experiments can never be repeated
  - that studies all cultures, present and past
* scientific method for studying past human cultures.
* seeks to describe and explain the nature and evolution of cultural systems.
* shows that religion constant process of inculturation
  - they lived in houses of sticks and mud with clay floors
* studies the historical development of human cultures by analyzing cultural remains
  - remains of past cultures to reconstruct former lifestyles
* sub-discipline of anthropology, as are ethnography and ethnology.
* traces cultural development by studying the things earlier peoples made and used.
* very broad and diverse discipline.
* way of life.
+ Clevedon: Towns in Somerset
  * Clevedon' is a town in the county of Somerset, in England. Archaeology shows that many people lived here during the Roman occupation. The town of today was not built until around 1800 as a seaside resort.