Oct 7, 2025 · Archaeology, the scientific study of the material remains of past human life and activities. These include human artifacts from the very earliest stone tools to the man-made …

Oct 7, 2025 · Darwin’s Origin of Species implied a long past for man, and the acceptance of the idea of human evolution in the last four decades of the 19th century created a climate of …

Sep 6, 2025 · Anthropology - Archaeology, Culture, Evolution: Archaeology is fundamentally a historical science, one that encompasses the general objectives of reconstructing, interpreting, …

In 1880 Flinders Petrie brought to Egypt his technique of controlled, scientifically recorded excavation, which revolutionized archaeology; he pushed back the origins of Egyptian culture …

Archaeology is the study of things that people made, used, and left behind. The goal of archaeology is to understand what people of the past were like and how they lived. Scientists …

3 days ago · This article focuses on Egypt from its prehistory through its unification under Menes (Narmer) in the 3rd millennium bce —sometimes used as a reference point for Egypt’s …

Sep 6, 2025 · Anthropology - Cultural, Biological, Archaeology: The modern discourse of anthropology crystallized in the 1860s, fired by advances in biology, philology, and prehistoric …

Art and cultural property repatriation is the return of art or other cultural objects to their country or culture of origin. Laws about and calls for repatriation increased over the course of the 20th …

Major subfields include classical archaeology, the study of ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations; prehistoric archaeology, or general archaeology; and historical …

Archaeology is the scientific study of the material remains of humankind’s past. Its discoveries are the principal source of knowledge about prehistoric cultures.