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- See also changes related to Archaeology, or pages that link to Archaeology or to this page or whose text contains "Archaeology".
Parent topics
- Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). [e]
- History [r]: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
Subtopics
- Dendrochronology [r]: The practice of using tree rings to provide dates [e]
- Excavation [r]: The process by which an archeologist, paleoanthropologist or paleontologist uncovers material remains of the past. [e]
- Experimental archaeology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geophysics [r]: The study of the Earth by quantitative physical methods, namely seismic, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, thermal and radioactivity methods. [e]
- Phase (archaeology) [r]: A period of inhabitation with cultural continuity. [e]
- Potsherd [r]: A historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, useful in archaeology for chronological dating, and for cultural context. [e]
- Radiocarbon dating [r]: A scientific method of determining the age of organic material based on the amount of carbon-14. [e]
- Robber trench [r]: An archaeological feature created when the foundations of a stone building are dug up for reuse. [e]
- Stratigraphy [r]: The interdisciplinary science field that describes all rock bodies that form the Earth's crust and the manner in which they are organised into distinctive units that are then mapped. [e]
- Zooarchaeology [r]: Add brief definition or description