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1958 in archaeology Jump to: navigation, search 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...

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Phidias (or Pheidias) son of Charmides, (circa 490 BC - circa 430 BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor, universally regarded as the greatest of Greek sculptors. ... Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympía or Ολύμπια Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a city of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. ... Excavations at the South Area of Çatal Höyük Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without accent marks -- Çatal is Turkish for fork and Höyük is Turkish for mound) was a very large Neolithic and...

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Linear B script sample Linear B is the script that was used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of the Greek language. ... John Chadwick (21 May 1920 - 24 November 1998) was a British linguist and classical scholar most famous for his role in deciphering Linear B along with Michael Ventris. ...

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Archaeology (3965 words)
Archaeology is a historical science aimed at the discovery and understanding of past human behaviour through the study of material remains.
As a result, archaeology is able to investigate not only the recent past and subjects to some degree already documented, but also epochs beyond the reach of memory and before the spread of writing.
In the West, undergraduate and MA archaeology programs were established at the universities of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and to the PhD level at the universities of Alberta and British Columbia.
John Patrick Hale: Define Historical Archaeology, Please (1824 words)
Archaeology’s role, then, is to explicate and explain that which came prior to the development of the discipline of anthropology, since the present is clearly the purview of cultural anthropologists.
According to James Deetz (1996), a popular definition of historical archaeology is, “The archaeology of the spread of European cultures throughout the world since the fifteenth century, and their impact on and interaction with the cultures of indigenous peoples” (5).
Historical archaeology — The study and interpretation of the material remains, both environmental and cultural, of societies in the remote and recent past, and the relationship between those remains and documentary history, towards a goal of understanding the society in its entirety including the cultural processes at work within and without the society.
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