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
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 theory edit
Archaeology by Period edit
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