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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

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[โ€“] dgdft@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Came for the petroglyphs, and stayed for the informed interdisciplinary commentary and quality writing. Great link OP!

The quipu/knotted string commentary stuck out as pretty tenuous to me though. Anyone with a good background in the southwest able to offer some hot takes or contextualize that at all?

[โ€“] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I thought people could use some connecting to their roots in these trying times for the US.