Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology (from Greek ἀρχαιολογία, archaiologia – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaīos, "ancient"; and -λογία, -logiā, "-logy"), is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture and environmental data which they have left behind, which includes artefacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record). The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history. In the United States it is thought of as a branch of anthropology, altho ...more

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Bog Queen
Destroyer (The Shattered City, #1)
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #26)
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
The Ark Files (Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers #1)
The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
Ruins
The Figurine
Tomb of the Sun King (Raiders of the Arcana #2)
Excavations
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
A History of Archaeological Thought
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life

N.S. Wikarski
“ We’re waiting for the day when archaeology and history catch up with us. ”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“ Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible? ”
― Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

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