Outline of archaeology
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 archeology?
Archeology can be described as all of the following:
Essence of archaeology
Branches of archaeology
Archaeological practice
- Cultural Resources Management
- Archaeological ethics
- Urban archaeology
Archaeological science
Archaeological subdisciplines
By location
- African archaeology
- Australian archaeology
- European archaeology
- Russian archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Archaeology of China
- Archaeology of Israel
By time period
Specialities
- 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
Archaeological methods
- Archaeological excavation
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological geophysics
- Underwater archaeology
Archaeological theory
- Great ages archaeology
- Functionalism
- Processualism / "New Archaeology"
- Post-processualism
- Cognitive archaeology
- Gender archaeology
- Feminist archaeology
- History of archaeology
Archaeology by Period
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
Archaeological site features
Archaeological artifacts
- Assemblage
- Grave goods
- Hoard
- Manuport
- Sarcophagus
- Small finds
- Stone tool
- Votive deposit
Other archaeology concepts
- 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
Archaeology lists
- List of archaeological periods
- List of archaeologists
- List of Russian archaeologists
- List of designations under the Protection of Wrecks Act
- List of famous archaeological sites
- List of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age
- List of archaeological sites sorted by country
- List of Palaeolithic sites in China
- List of prominent paleoethnobotanists
- List of years in archaeology
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