Archaeology/Related Articles

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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]

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]
Rescue archaeology [r]: The process of recording a historic site that is under threat from damage or destruction. ^[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