Archaeology did not emerge as a discrete discipline until the turn of the last century.
The central notion from which archaeology developed is quite straightforward: humankind has left material traces of its history in and on the earth.
Moreover, he formulated a definition of archaeology as the study of ancient and mediaeval monuments and written sources, to be correlated with the sciences of minerology, physical geography, ethnology, and anthropology, as well as the history of art.
In 1856, the entire population of Pitcairn left for Norfolk Island, a British possession in the Pacific recently abandoned as a penal settlement, believing that Pitcairn's resources could not support its rapidly increasing population.
Nigel Erskine, director of the Pitcairn Project, is an associate lecturer in maritime archaeology at James Cook University.
The Pitcairn Project was made possible by grants from the Australian National Centre for Excellence in Maritime Archaeology, the West Australian Museum, the Queensland Museum, the Australian Research Council, and James Cook University.
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