Outline of archaeology
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to archaeology:
Archaeology – study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.
What type of thing is archaeology?[edit]
Archaeology can be described as all of the following:
Essence of archaeology[edit]
- Archaeological record
- Archaeological science
- Archaeological site
- Archaeological theory
- Artifacts
- Biofacts
- Excavation
Branches of archaeology[edit]
Archaeological practice[edit]
Archaeological science[edit]
- Archaeometry
- Dendrochronology
- Isotope analysis
- Palynology
- Radiocarbon dating
- Zooarchaeology
- Geoarchaeology
- Bioarchaeology
- Archaeogenetics
- Computational archaeology
Archaeological subdisciplines[edit]
By location[edit]
- African archaeology
- Australian archaeology
- European archaeology
- Russian archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Archaeology of China
- Archaeology of Israel
By time period[edit]
- Industrial archaeology
- Near Eastern archaeology
- Biblical archaeology
- Medieval archaeology
- Historical archaeology
Specialities[edit]
- Aerial archaeology
- Archaeoastronomy
- Archaeological science
- Archaeozoology
- Archaeobotany or paleoethnobotany
- Battlefield archaeology
- Computational archaeology
- Experimental archaeology
- Environmental archaeology
- Forensic archaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Maritime archaeology
- Museum studies
- Palaeoarchaeology
- Paleopathology
History of archaeology[edit]
Archaeological methods[edit]
- Archaeological excavation
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological geophysics
- Underwater archaeology
Archaeological theory[edit]
- Great ages archaeology
- Functionalism
- Processualism / "New Archaeology"
- Post-processualism
- Cognitive archaeology
- Gender archaeology
- Feminist archaeology
- History of archaeology
Archaeology by Period[edit]
List of archaeological periods
- Lower Palaeolithic
- Middle Palaeolithic
- Upper Palaeolithic
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- Chalcolithic
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Romans
- Anglo-Saxons
- Pre-Columbian
- Medieval
- Industrial
Archaeological sites[edit]
Archaeological site features[edit]
Archaeological artifacts[edit]
Other archaeology concepts[edit]
- Alignment
- Archaeological association
- Archaeological context
- Archaeological culture
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological horizon
- Archaeological natural
- Archaeological phase
- Archaeological plan
- Archaeological record
- Archaeological sequence
- Biofact
- Collecting
- Colluvium
- Cropmarks
- Cultural resources management
- Cut
- Dark earth
- Dating methodology
- Dendrochronology
- Deposit model
- Ecofact
- Excavation
- Fill
- Fossil
- Geologic time scale
- Geomatics
- Grave robbing
- Ground-penetrating radar
- Harris matrix
- Law of superposition
- Lithic analysis
- Post excavation
- Projectile point
- Radiocarbon dating
- Relationship
- Seriation
- Stratification
Influential archaeologists[edit]
Archaeology lists[edit]
- List of archaeological periods
- List of archaeologists
- List of Russian historians
- List of designations under the Protection of Wrecks Act
- List of archaeological sites by country
- List of paleoethnobotanists
- Table of years in archaeology