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Archaeology as a Hobby
Some people might prefer to experience the excitement of archaeology but only as a hobby. Being a part-time archaeologist or employing one’s time in archaeology as a...
Archaeology from Outer Space
Many professional archaeologists claim that the greatest advancement in archaeology since the pick and shovel is Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), otherwise known as...
Artefact Hoaxes
Hoaxes are neither fakes nor forgeries as these terms in archaeology, refer to an artefact. A hoax, on the other hand, is an attempt to fool people into believing that...
Early Footprints
Laetoli in Eastern Africa’s Tanzania, is home to one of the most famous archaeological sites. There is no gold, no treasure, no skeletal remains, not even one stone tool...
Egyptian Mummies
Overshadowing everything else in Egyptian life was the desire to live forever. Egyptians believed in an eternity after they had died.
Ancient Egyptians believed...
Origins of Food Production
The origins of animal and plant domestication is considered an important development in human history by anthropologists and the sub-discipline field of archaeology is...
The Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxony is the land area of modern England with a history beginning early into medieval England (around AD 500) up until the conquest of Britain by the Normans (in...
The Early Bronze Age
Bronze Age once began consciously and consistently to use hardened metals in addition to traditional stone in order to plough their fields, to fight their battles, and...
The First People
Without considering the skeletal forms of ancient people, the archaeologist studies genuine remains of past cultures behaviour to determine lifestyle models of earlier...
The Mayan Indians
The classical period of the Maya civilisation was between 300 and 900 AD. During these 600 years the Mayan Indians reached their most artistic and cultural achievements....
