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Academic Qualifications to Be An Archaeologist
Academic institutions are broadly divided into three groupings.
Government operated universities offering graduate programmes.
Private...
Basic Archaeological Theory
Various Theoretical Frameworks
Archaeologists use theoretical models to assist them to explain what happened in the past. They also use experiments and observations...
Ethics and Morals
Archaeology may be dealing with the lifeless, static, material past but it must still embrace certain cultural standards to ensure that, as an academic discipline, it...
Glossary of Archaeology Terms
Archaeological Jargon
Archaeology like any scientific discipline has developed its own unique jargon words - a lexicon, if you like. In order to fully appreciate the...
Origins of the Alphabet
Written language distinguishes humanity from the animal world, but the knowledge of writing is the hallmark of civilization. Writing and even language itself, is a form...
Rescue Archaeology
This modern form of archaeology, as a structured division of archaeology's diversity, has gained many hasty titles. Among the more scholarly are names such as salvage or...
The History of Archaeology
Modern archaeology is a scientific attempt to understand the interaction of humans with their environment from the remains that they left behind. This scientific...
Types of Archaeology
The Variety of Archaeology
The sheer variety that encompasses the rich subject of archaeology is often underestimated. Digging in the sand looking for the stone...
What is Archaeology?
From Two Greek Words
Archaeology is a rapidly expanding science that involves the specialist study of selected ancient remains. The word, archaeology, is a compound...
