Archaeology
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Purpose:
The purpose of archaeology is to find remnants of the past, interpreting and piecing them together in order to discover more about historical events, culture, and our human legacy.
Question(s):
What is the best way to find information about the distant past, and how does one effectively interpret the past through archaeology?
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In order to become or think like an effective archaeologist, one should consider site discovery techniques, artifact retrieval, cataloging, and preservation techniques, contextual and cultural clues, and supportable historical and scientific data from archaeological finds.
Inference(s):
Archaeologists formulate historical interpretations and validate them by cross-referencing various previous interpretations, current cultural evidence, physical artifacts and scientific data from archaeological finds.
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The concept of recovering lost history, of seeking evidence from beneath the surface of the earth to reveal important events and time sequences in ancient human history.
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We can always enrich our understanding of the past, and archaeology provides evidence to support historical theories. The past is a puzzle that can be further solved through ongoing archaeological study.
Implication(s):
New discoveries that answer questions of the past can be made with on-going archaeological research. Beliefs we now hold as true, could one day be revised based on future discoveries. Understanding old ways of doing things may also provide the present or future with useful knowledge or resources for survival.
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Seeing the story of humankind as taking place through stages over hundreds of thousands of years.
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