Technically,
archaeology is the study of lives of ancient humans. Archaeologists do it by
examining the remains of early settlements. All over the world. They usually
explore how people of the past lived, worked, moved across the landscape,
traded with others, and what they believed. Those facts they discover help us
understand how different groups of people lived, expanded, and, in some cases,
we get to know how they even perished. Like in Pompeii tragedy with eruption of
Mount Vesuvius.
As a field of study
archaeology has branched into many ways. Like bioarchaeology - study of human
remains, paleoethnobotany - study of ancient plants, zooarchaeology - study of
remains of animals and etc. You will be surprised to know how broadly
archeology has spread. There is even a field which study the remains of human
activity that lie beneath the surface of water or on coasts and those people
who do it called underwater archaeologists.
Archaeological
methods are very similar around the world. Usually archaeology is an
independent field of study or sometimes part of historical research. In America
however, archaeology is a subfield of anthropology, the study of human. Why
does Americans always have to do things different?
Either if it is
American or the rest of the world, some of those discoveries has caused more
questions than they answered. Below video is about those discoveries which left
even brightest minds of the world helpless.
Try if you can come
up with a theory about these mysteries. Our comment section is always open for
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