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1800 in archaeology 1800 (MDCCC) was an common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Archaeology or archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...

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Ferdinand Keller (1800-1881) was a Swiss archeologist. ...

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African-American Archaeology Newsletter, Spring 2000 (8335 words)
Shortly after 1800, additional landfill was added, moving the shoreline further to the east and sealing the riverbottom deposits in this area.
Perry provides an excellent example of how historical archaeology can be used to test, and ultimately refute, a widely accepted historiographic model, in this case one that, for over a century, has served the interests of European colonists and their allies in southern Africa.
Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact is based upon extensive fieldwork in Swaziland (a nominally independent country almost totally surrounded by South Africa) and synthesis of previous archaeological, documentary, and oral historical work conducted in neighboring South Africa and Mozambique.
Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6516 words)
Native accounts are confined to Irish poetry, myth, and archaeology.
In 1800 the Irish Parliament passed the Act of Union which, in 1801, merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The whole island of Ireland became part of the United Kingdom, ruled directly by the UK Parliament in London.
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