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Archaeology - LoveToKnow Watches (13617 words) |
 | It may thus be conceived how vast a field archaeology embraces, and how intimately it is connected with the sciences of geology and anthropology, while it naturally includes within its borders the consideration of all the civilizations of ancient times. |
| The archaeology of zoological species constitutes the sphere of palaeontology, while that of botanical species is dealt with as palaeobotany; and every different science thus has its archaeological side. |
| The beginning of archaeology, as the study of pre-documentary history, may be broadly held to follow on the last of the geological periods, viz., the Quaternary, though it is claimed, and with some reason, that traces of man have been found in deposits of the preceding or Tertiary period. |
| archaeology today: assemblage issue 3 (863 words) |
| Today, archaeology occupies a solid and respectable position in modern society as the authorised producer and reproducer of the national heritage. |
| The pattern of public and commercial funding for archaeology in Britain has changed irrevocably and the roles of the public and private sectors are developing and evolving to meet these new challenges. |
| Archaeology in Britain today is aimed at curbing profligacy not research and at safe-guarding sites in order to ensure that the needs of future research can be properly addressed. |
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