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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Fossil Feud
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Fossil Feud
Bog Queen
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
The Ark Files (Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers #1)
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
The Figurine
The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
Destroyer (The Shattered City, #1)
Ruins
Excavations
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A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Arrow of Fortune (Raiders of the Arcana, #3)
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
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
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
Archaeological Theory
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Madre de piedra, espuma de los cóndores. Alto arrecife de la aurora humana. Pala perdida en la primera arena.
Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Macchu Picchu

Robert Shea
An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials.
Robert Shea

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