What Archaeology Is and What Archaeologists Do The essence of archaeology, experts say, is to carefully examine artifacts, fossils or ruins and decipher their meaning.

Archaeology is a discipline influenced by emerging cultural trends, especially with regard to theoretical approaches to interpretation and practice. Public archaeology is a relatively young approach, ...

Historical Archaeology is the journal of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). Published quarterly with an annual content of approximately 544 pages of articles, and with an on-line ...

Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa's archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are ...

And space archaeology in particular pushes the boundaries of this, given that archaeology generally doesn’t consider something an artifact until it’s at least 50 years old (in fact, the ...

Archaeology is catching up with the digital humanities movement with the creation of large online databases, combining data collected from satellite-, airborne-, and UAV-mounted sensors with ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction.