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 ethics
- Archaeological excavation
- 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]- List of archaeological sites by country
- African archaeology
- Australian archaeology
- European archaeology
- Russian archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Archaeology of Ayodhya
- Archaeology of the Channel Islands
- Archaeology of China
- Archaeology of Cyprus
- Archaeology of India
- Archaeology of Iowa (United States)
- Archaeology of Israel
- Archaeology of Northern Europe
- Archaeology of the Philippines
- Archaeology of Qatar
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
- List of archaeological periods (North America)
- 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 archaeological sites by continent and age
- List of Paleolithic sites in China
- List of paleoethnobotanists
- Table of years in archaeology