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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Archaeology.
See also changes related to Archaeology, or pages that link to Archaeology or to this page or whose text contains "Archaeology".

Parent topics

  • 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]

Subtopics

  • 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]
  • 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]

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  • American Oriental Society [r]: Scholarly organization founded in 1842 devoted to the study of Asian languages, literature and culture. [e]
  • Boudica [r]: Queen of the British Iceni who led a revolt against the Roman occupation in AD 60 or 61. [e]
  • Crop origins and evolution [r]: History of the origins of agriculture and the evolutionary processes that have affected plants during and after domestication. [e]
  • Cunobelinus [r]: British king of the early 1st century AD. [e]
  • Enheduana [r]: (23rd century BCE) Akkadian princess, religious leader, and author of hymns; daughter of King Sargon. [e]
  • Kennewick Man [r]: An Early Holocene human skeleton first discovered near Kennewick, Washington in 1996. [e]
  • Lee R. Berger [r]: Anthropologist and archeologist noted for work on Australopithecus africanus and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis. [e]
  • Linguistic anthropology [r]: The branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes. [e]
  • Proto-Indo-Europeans [r]: Prehistoric people who spoke a language reconstructed as 'Proto-Indo-European', the ancestor of many modern European languages. [e]
  • Scarborough Castle [r]: Ruined stone castle on the east coast of Yorkshire, England, begun in mid-twelfth century. [e]
  • Tel Rehov [r]: Large earthen city mound, or "tel", in the central Jordan Valley of Israel, the site of an important Bronze and Iron Age Canaanite city. [e]
  • Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus [r]: British king of the first century AD, loyal to Rome. [e]