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archaeology
archaeology [Gr.,=study of beginnings], a branch of anthropology that seeks to document and explain continuity and change and similarities and differences among human cultures. Archaeologists work with the material remains of cultures, past and present, providing the only source of information av... Read more
biblical archaeology
biblical archaeology term applied to the archaeology of the biblical lands, especially those of the ancient Middle East. While the thousands of written texts found in the languages of the ancient Middle East illuminate the Bible itself, the artifacts uncovered by archaeologists help re-create the... Read more
University of Arizona
University of Arizona at Tucson; land-grant and state-supported; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891. Because of the proximity of Pueblo villages and rich archaeological sites, Native American archaeology and ethnology are important fields of research. The university is also involved in astr... Read more
Alfred Vincent Kidder
Alfred Vincent Kidder 1885-1963, American archaeologist, b. Marquette, Mich., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1908; Ph.D. 1914). From 1915 to 1929 he conducted excavations at Pecos, N.Mex., for the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. This research is considered to have laid the foundation for modern archaeologica... Read more
John Garstang
John Garstang 1876-1956, English archaeologist. He served as W. M. Flinders Petrie 's field assistant in Egypt in 1899 and was professor of archaeology at the Univ. of Liverpool from 1907 to 1941, when he became professor emeritus. He conducted archaeological excavations at Jericho in Palestine an... Read more
tumulus
tumulus , plural tumuli , in archaeology, a heap of earth or stones placed over a grave. The terms mound , barrow , or cairn are more common in modern usage. ... Read more
Amaravati
Amaravati , ancient ruined city, Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, near the mouth of the Krishna River. The former capital of the Buddhist Andhra kingdom, it is a well-known archaeological site. Remains include a beautiful Buddhist stupa (1st cent. AD). ... Read more
Percy Gardner
Percy Gardner 1846-1937, English classical archaeologist. He served as field assistant to W. M. Flinders Petrie , helping him excavate Naucritus, a Greek settlement in Egypt. From 1887 to 1925 he was professor of archaeology at Oxford, where he was instrumental in building up the archaeology depar... Read more
menhir
menhir [Breton,=long stone], in archaeology, name given to the single standing stones of Western Europe, and by extension to those of other lands. Their size varies and their shape is rough and squared, tapering toward the top. See megalithic monuments . ... Read more
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie , 1853-1942, English archaeologist, a noted Egyptologist. He excavated ancient remains in Britain (1875-80), Egypt (1880-1924), and Palestine (1927-38) and was (1892-1933) professor of Egyptology at University College, London. In 1894 he founded the Egyptian Resea... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Archaeology"

Archaeology
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science Archaeology Archaeology is the scientific recovery and study of artifacts (objects made...disposable plastic bottles found at modern dump sites. Thus, studies in archaeology can extend from the beginning of human prehistory to the most recent...
Slave Lives, Archaeology of
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Slave Lives, Archaeology of The archaeology of slavery is a branch of historical archaeology focused on the analysis and interpretation of slavery through the use of material remains. The archaeology of slavery was originally referred to as plantation...
Nautical Archaeology
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science Nautical archaeology Nautical archaeology (pronounced NAW-tih-kul ar-kee-OL-low-jee) is...or things deliberately thrown into the ocean, nautical archaeology is but another way of exploring and learning more about the...
archaeology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition archaeology [Gr.,=study of beginnings], a...and contemporary groups. History of Archaeology The discipline had its origins in early...cent. the progress of Greek and Roman archaeology was advanced by Johann Winckelmann and...
biblical archaeology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition biblical archaeology term applied to the archaeology of the biblical lands, especially those of the ancient...re-create the cultural setting of its time. Biblical archaeology developed in earnest in the early part of the 19th cent...
industrial archaeology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History industrial archaeology, a term invented by Professor Donald...interdisciplinary study, industrial archaeology has attracted a popular audience in...society, the Association for Industrial Archaeology, which publishes Industrial Archaeology...
Archaeology in the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST serious archaeological...launched the newly developing discipline of archaeology. Their interest was the ancient world...and founded the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. Napol é on's short...
Food Archaeology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture FOOD ARCHAEOLOGY FOOD ARCHAEOLOGY. As part of their general research, archaeologists have long...cultures. Recently, there has been increased interest in food archaeology (although it is not yet identified as a separate discipline...
marine and underwater archaeology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea marine and underwater archaeology. Humankind's artefacts litter...in most people's minds marine archaeology is associated with shipwrecks...as historical monuments. Marine archaeology began in earnest once diving technology...
Stratigraphy (Archaeology)
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science Stratigraphy (Archaeology) Stratigraphy is the study of layered materials (strata) that...Pompeii in 1860, also pioneered the use of stratigraphic methods in archaeology. Some early advocates of the principles of stratigraphy found...

Dictionary entries related to "Archaeology"

Archaeology
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGY is the scientific reconstruction and understanding of prehistoric...short one hundred years of its existence as an academic discipline, archaeology's primary goals — reconstructing and interpreting past...
archaeology, Christian
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church archaeology, Christian. The phrase commonly denotes...centuries. The beginnings of Christian archaeology are associated with explorations of...period within the field of Christian archaeology. The main classes of monuments studied...
archaeology
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible archaeology Discoveries at a multitude of sites...Bible have been definitely located by archaeology, and the historical records, which...sometimes given the impression that archaeology proves the ‘truth’...
Archaeology and Prehistory of North America
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA. Settlement of the North American continent began at least 15,000 years ago, after the ocean level had dropped to expose a landmass beneath the modern...
Petrie, (William Matthew) Flinders
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Israel], 28 July 1942) Egyptology, archaeology . Petrie ’ s delicate health...Account, renamed the British School of Archaeology in Egypt in 1905. He directed this...further described in Methods and Aims in Archaeology (1904). When he began working in...
Déchelette, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Aisne, France, 4 October 1914) archaeology . The son of rich industrialists, D...him a passionate interest in Gallic archaeology, and on of his cousins, a departmental...abandoned industry and devoted himself to archaeology. Next to his magnificent residence...
Prehistory, Rise of
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...d. c. 401 b.c.e.) called "archaeology." The pre-history of "prehistory...philosophical study of human nature) and "archaeology" (Thucydidean prehistory). Monuments...the three-age system, which was "archaeology's first paradigm." A variation on...
Mortillet, Louis-Laurent Gabriel De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Laye, France, 25 September 1898) archaeology, anthropology . Mortillet was educated...congress of anthropology and prehistoric archaeology. Mortillet was secretary of the first...bronze axes, lake dwellings, and the archaeology of the Celts. His views on prehistory...
Putnam, Frederic Ward
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Cambridge, Massachusetts, 14 August 1915) archaeology, anthropology. Putnam was the son...important empirical base for American archaeology. In 1874, following Wyman ’...appointed chief of the ethnology and archaeology department of the World ’...
Piette, Louis-Édouard-Stanislas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Ardennes, France, 1827; d . 1906) archaeology, Paleontology . Although trained as...made major contributions to Paleolithic archaeology by his own discoveries, his championship...G. E. Daniel, A Hundred Years of Archaeology (London, 1950), 122-126, 131...

Thesaurus entries related to "Archaeology"

ditch
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...rescued a cat from the ditch synonyms : trench, trough, channel, dike, drain, gutter, gully, watercourse, conduit; Archaeology fosse. • verb   1. they started ditching the coastal areas synonyms : dig a ditch in, trench, excavate...
revolutionize
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus revolutionize • verb  aerial photography revolutionized archaeology synonyms : transform, alter dramatically, shake up, turn upside down, restructure, reorganize, transmute, metamorphose; humorous transmogrify.
trench
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus trench • noun  Chechen fighters steel themselves in their trenches around the city synonyms : ditch, channel, trough, excavation, furrow, rut, conduit, cut, drain, duct, waterway, watercourse; entrenchment, moat; Archaeology fosse.
do
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...me how to do these equations synonyms : work out, figure out, calculate; solve, resolve.   11. she's doing archaeology synonyms : study, learn, take a course in.   12. what does he do? synonyms : have as a job, have as a profession...

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Archaeology in the ex-USSR: post-perestroyka problems.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...orientation. From the very beginning the archaeology in the USSR was largely viewed as a...for Soviet theoretical and practical archaeology. Marr's concept was refuted after...Marxism'. The structure of Soviet archaeology was repeatedly modified in the course...
Archaeology as cultural history: words and things in Iron Age Greece.(The archaeology of ancient Greece, The temple complex) (book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; IAN MORRIS. Archaeology as cultural history: words and things...34.95. JAMES WHITLEY. The archaeology of ancient Greece. xxvi+484 pages...20 [pounds sterling]. What Greek archaeology is and what it should be are key questions...
Applied archaeology
Magazine article from: Human Organization; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; The need to examine applied archaeology stems from the long-held recognition...ones. The pace of applied work in archaeology has greatly accelerated over the...engine that drives much applied archaeology in cultural resource management...
Archaeology: the loss of isolation. (Special Section: David Clarke's 'Archaeology: The Loss of Innocence' (1973) 25 Years After)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...separate David Clarke's paper 'Archaeology: the loss of innocence' and...publication of Symbolic and structural archaeology (Hodder 1982), which may be...beginning of a 'post-processual' archaeology. Many of the ideas put forward...
Archaeology and education in Australia.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Aboriginal culture, historical archaeology, education, universities, schools...Aboriginal, Historical and Maritime archaeology have been taught in Australian universities since the 1960s, and archaeology has made major contributions to...
Archaeology in Greek higher education.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...universities, training, curriculum, classical archaeology The Greek past The teaching of archaeology in higher education in Greece cannot be...isolation from the broader realms of antiquity, archaeology and the past in modern Greek society and...
Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation / The Archaeology of Israel: Construction the Past, Interpreting the Present
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; JOHN R. BARTLETT (ed.), Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation...and DAVID SMALL (eds.), The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past...judicious and respectful combining of archaeology and textual analysis. The first...
Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology
Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology. THOMAS W. NEUMAN and ROBERT M. SANFORD. AltaMira...school dedicated to the subject of practicing archaeology; this volume has served as the textbook. According...
Archaeology at the crossroads. (efforts to make archaeology more 'people-friendly')
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; Archaeology has changed, is changing, but needs...the Association of Local Government Archaeology Officers, came almost exactly seven...new planning policy guidance note on archaeology. That guidance note, `PPG16', has...
Archaeology on the World Wide Web: a user's field-guide.(Special Section: Electronic Archaeology)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...visiting an unfamiliar place to look at the archaeology. You want to know if there is anything...the categories of information about archaeology on the WWW, illustrated by good examples...are currently three registered VLs for archaeology, one for archaeology generally, another...