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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Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
The Figurine
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
The Ark Files (Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers #1)
The One Impossible Labyrinth (Jack West Jr, #7)
Tomb of the Sun King (Raiders of the Arcana #2)
Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra (Charlie Thorne #3)
The Man in Black: Stories
Excavations
A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)
Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18)
The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #26)
Dark Dive (Underwater Investigation Unit, #5)
Us in Ruins
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
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life

Merlin Stone
Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures? Why do so many people educated in this century think of classical Greece as the first major culture when written language was in use and great cities built at least twenty-f ...more
Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman

Rajib  Mukherjee
Some sinister secret lay buried in the heart of the graveyard!
Rajib Mukherjee, Partho, the Unconventional Investigator: The Mystery of the Missing Bags

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