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Historical archaeology. Historical archaeology is a form of archaeology dealing with places, things, and issues from the past or present when written records and oral traditions can inform and contextualize cultural material. These records can both complement and conflict with the archaeological evidence found at a particular site.
Expedition to shipwreck in Tallinn Bay. The archaeology of shipwrecks is the field of archaeology specialized most commonly in the study and exploration of shipwrecks. [1] Its techniques combine those of archaeology with those of diving to become Underwater archaeology. However, shipwrecks are discovered on what have become terrestrial sites.
Landscape archaeology, a sub-discipline of archaeology and archaeological theory, is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them. It is also known as archaeogeography (from the Greek ἀρχαίος "ancient", and γεωγραφία "earth study"). Landscape archaeology is inherently ...
In 1862–63, Alexander Cunningham, the founder of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), conducted a survey of Ayodhya. [1] Cunnigham identified Ayodhya with Sha-chi mentioned in Fa-Hien 's writings, Visakha mentioned in Xuanzang 's writings and Saketa mentioned in Buddhist legends. According to him, Gautama Buddha spent six years at this place.
The philosophy of archaeology is also concerned with the construction of theories within the discipline. Archaeology is a theoretically fragmented field with no generally applied interpretative theory underpinning the discipline. A multitude of different theoretical approaches have developed over the last 50 years and exist in parallel across ...
Archeológia. Rímske divadlo, Alexandria, Egypt. Archeológia (z gr. ἀρχαῖος (archaios) = pradávny; λόγος (logos) = slovo, prejav, systém) je spoločenská veda zaoberajúca sa štúdiom ľudskej minulosti vyhľadávaním, odkrývaním, dokumentáciou, analýzou a interpretáciou artefaktov a ekofaktov, architektúr, ľudských ...
Urban archaeology. Excavations at a car park in Leicester, United Kingdom, in 2012. Urban archaeology is a sub discipline of archaeology specializing in the material past of towns and cities where long-term human habitation has often left a rich record of the past. In modern times, when someone talks about living in a city, they are in an area ...
