Concept information
Preferred term
archaeology
Definition
- Archaeology (Women in) online video November 2012 AFP/Getty Images Footage by AFP/Getty Images Four women work to revive the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered by archaeologists between 1947 and 1956 in the Qumran Caves above the Dead Sea in Israel, and are considered one of the world's most important archaeological finds. Piecing together a puzzle 2,000 years old, a mission for the meticulous. [Source: The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World; Archaeology (Women in)]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Abu Simbel
- Acheulean culture
- acropolis
- Altamira Cave
- Ancient Crete
- ancient Egypt
- Ancient Rome
- Angkor Wat
- archaeology and gender studies
- archaeology of war
- architectural anthropology
- Atapuerca
- Aurignacian culture
- Aztec agriculture
- Babylon
- biblical archaeology
- Blombos Cave
- Brian M. Fagan
- burial mounds
- cave art
- Celtic Europe
- Chichen Itza
- Clovis culture
- Colosseum
- Copper Age
- Egyptology
- environmental archaeology
- eoliths
- excavation
- Fa Hien cave
- fayoum culture
- Folsom culture
- ghost towns
- graves
- Great Wall of China
- hand axes
- Harappa
- Henri Breuil
- Hiram Bingham
- historicism
- history of anthropology
- history of the city
- Howard Carter
- indus civilization
- Iron Age
- Jacques Boucher de Perthes
- jarmo
- Koba
- Lascaux cave
- lazaret cave
- Levalloisian tradition
- Lewis Roberts Binford
- llano culture
- Machu Picchu
- maritime archaeology
- Mary D. Leakey
- mayas
- medieval archaeology
- mesolithic cultures
- mesopotamian civilization
- metallurgy
- middens
- Modjokerto
- Mohenjo Daro
- monte verde
- mummies and mummification
- museums
- National Museum of Anthropology
- natufian culture
- Nazca culture
- Neandertal burials
- neandertal evidence
- neandertal sites
- Neolithic cultures
- ochre
- Ohio Hopewell
- Oldowan culture
- Olduvai Gorge
- olmecs
- Orce
- Petra
- petroglyphs
- pictographs
- pottery and ceramics
- prehistory
- Pu'uhonua o Honaunau
- pyramids
- Ramses II
- Rapa Nui
- Robert John Braidwood
- rock art
- sahara anthropology
- salvage archaeology
- sangiran
- shanidar cave
- Stonehenge
- Sumerian civilization
- Taj Mahal
- temples
- tenoctitlan
- terra amata
- Tikal
- tiwanaku [tiahuanaco]
- tools and evolution
- troy
- tutankhamun and zahi hawass
- Ubirr
- ur
- urbanism in ancient egypt
- Uxmal
- venus of willendorf
- Vikings
- zafarraya cave
- ziggurats
- zooarchaeology
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/archaeology
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