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

New Releases Tagged "Archaeology"

Daughter of Egypt
Ruins
The Night Hag
Bog Queen
Badlands (Nora Kelly, #5)
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
The Figurine
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
Ruins
Tomb of the Sun King (Raiders of the Arcana #2)
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
The Antique Store Detective (Bella Winter Mystery)
Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra (Charlie Thorne #3)
A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)
The House of Two Sisters
Dark Dive (Underwater Investigation Unit, #5)
Excavations
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
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
A History of Archaeological Thought
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials

China Miéville
Tutte le note erano come a strati, un palinsesto di interpretazione in progresso. Feci archeologia.
China Miéville, The City & the City

Donna Grant
They couldn’t turn back time. What was done, was done. He dropped his arms and lowered his head. Despondency filled him to the very brim. He was a dragon. A creature of magic and fire. A being that was lethal and dangerous. The Kings had forgotten that. All but one.
Donna Grant, Firestorm

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