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"Field schools are a great way to determine if you want to be an archaeologist, and better yet, they are loads of fun!" Christine Font, 2008.

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Often when people think about archaeology, images of Indiana Jones-type adventurers come to mind.  The reality is not quite as cinematic.  Archaeology is the study of earlier cultures by anthropologists who specialize in the scientific recovery, analysis, and interpretation of the material remains of past societies.  Much of archaeology focuses on the time before the advent of writing (prehistory), but archaeological work is also done by historic archaeologists who work with complex societies that have left written records.

Archaeologists, like all anthropologists, are concerned with culture, but the sources of information for archaeologists are not living people.  Artifacts and other materials left behind by ancient peoples provide the basis of our archaeological knowledge. Archaeology encompasses the techniques and approaches used to study the past and ways of interpreting what happened through the material culture--the actual things people made, used, altered, and then left behind.

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

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