Archaeology: What's Hot Now: Archaeology Subfields

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Archaeology Subfields Sep 30th 2011, 10:01 Archaeology has many subfields--including both ways of thinking about archaeology and ways of studying archaeology Battlefield Archaeology Mr. T in DC Battlefield archaeology is an area of specialization among historical archaeologists. Archaeologists study battlefields of many different centuries, eras, and cultures, to document what historians cannot. Biblical Archaeology Dead Sea Scrolls Document 4Q325. Israel Antiquities Authority/Tsila Sagiv Traditionally, biblical archaeology is the name given to the study of the archaeological aspects of the history of the Jewish and Christian churches as provided in the Judeo-Christian bible. Classical Archaeology Greek Vase, Heraklion Museum. by A Pastafarian Classical archaeology is the study of the ancient Mediterranean, including ancient Greece and Rome and their immediate forebears Minoans and Mycenaeans. The study is often found in ancient history or art departments in graduate schools, and in general is a broad, culture-based study. Cognitive Archaeology For the Love of God, Damien Hirst. Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd / Getty Images Archaeologists who practice cognitive archaeology are interested in the material expression of human ways of thinking about things, such as gender, class, status, kinship. Commercial Archaeology Crossroads Plaza in Palmyra, Diane Jabi Commercial archaeology is not, as you might think, the buying and selling of artifacts, but rather archaeology which focuses on the material culture aspects of commerce and transportation. Cultural Resource Management Save Pasargad and Persepolis. Ebad Hashemi Cultural Resource Management, also called Heritage Management in some countries, is the way cultural resources including archaeology are managed at the governmental level. When it works best, CRM is a process, in which all the interested parties are allowed to have some input into the decision about what to do about endangered resources on public property. Economic Archaeology Karl Marx's Gravestone, London. 13bobby Economic archaeologists are concerned with how people control their economic resources, most particularly but not entirely, their food supply. Many economic archaeologists are Marxists, in that they are interested in who controls food supply, and how. Environmental Archaeology Huge tree in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Marco Lo Vullo Environmental archaeology is the subdiscipline of archaeology that focuses on the impacts of a given culture on the environment, as well as the impact of the environment on that culture. Ethnoarchaeology John Atherton Ethnoarchaeology is the science of applying archaeological methods to living groups, in part to understand how the processes of how various cultures create archaeological sites, what they leave behind and what kind of patterns can be seen in modern rubbish. Experimental Archaeology Flint Knapper at Work. Travis Shinabarger Experimental archaeology is a branch of archaeological study that replicates or attempts to replicate past processes to understand how the deposits came about. Experimental archaeoloy includes everything from the recreation of a stone tool through flintknapping to reconstruction of an entire village into a living history farm.

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