ARCHAEOLOGY

one of the four subfields of anthropology

 

Archeaology is the study of human tools and artifacts, wherever they are found. While most people think of digs at ancient sites in Egypt and Greece as the mainstay of archaeology, the field archaeology is vast. Urban archaeologists dig through contemporary trash heaps and poke in people's backyard trashcans (with permission of course). Archaeologists are called upon to dig up ancient graves when those graves are found underneath modern building sites, and to determine whose ancestors are there. Archaeology provides a great deal of information about the ancient past and is a very technical field. Learning to map a dig, and to carefully dig out and preserve artifacts takes years of study. Archaeologists frequently work in museums, arranging exhibits of their work.

 

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