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ScienceDaily: Archaeology Articles (566 words) |
 | The Bronze Age is a period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking consisted of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and... |
| In archaeology, the Iron Age is the stage in the development of any people where the use of iron implements as tools and weapons is prominent. |
| Archaeology, archeology, or archæology is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including... |
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South American Archaeology: European conquest and aftermath (4051 words) |
| A part of archaeology that resides at the intersection of public awareness and research concerns deals with interpretations of the past seen in the intellectual context of their times. |
| Archaeology of the contact period and subsequent colonial era is beginning to blossom in recent years (e.g., Spalding 1999, Monteiro 1999). |
| Historical archaeology of the early colonial period seeks to examine interactions among all these indigenous and introduced peoples, not only elite lifestyles, politics, and socioeconomic systems, but also how the material culture shows the relationships among them all and the course of culture change. |
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