Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology (from Greek ἀρχαιολογία, archaiologia – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaīos, "ancient"; and -λογία, -logiā, "-logy"), is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture and environmental data which they have left behind, which includes artefacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record). The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history. In the United States it is thought of as a branch of anthropology, altho ...more

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The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
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Fossil Feud
Destroyer (The Shattered City, #1)
Bog Queen
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
The Figurine
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
Ruins
The Ark Files (Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers #1)
Arrow of Fortune (Raiders of the Arcana, #3)
A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)
The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #26)
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
A History of Archaeological Thought
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Anuradha Roy
Until humans came and made anthills out of these mountains, Diwan Sahib was saying, looking up at the langurs, the land had belonged to these monkeys, and to barking deer, nilgai, tiger, barasingha, leopards, jackals, the great horned owl, and even to cheetahs and lions. The archaeology of the wilderness consisted of these lost animals, not of ruined walls, terracotta amulets, and potsherds.
Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth

Agatha Christie
Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them. ...more
Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia

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