Foundations of Archaeology
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The foundations of archaeology are both conceptual and methodological. Key concepts are associated with several “structures of inquiry” and with constructions used to define and organize archaeological data. The methodological foundations of archaeology are found in fieldwork and other ways of gathering archaeological data and in the approaches used to analyze and interpret archaeological data in the laboratory and elsewhere. Such methods include the use of analogy such as ethnoarchaeology and experimentation, classification, dating, materials analysis, bioarchaeology, and the analysis and interpretation of past environments.
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