Outline of archaeology
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to archaeology:
Archaeology - study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.
What ''type'' of thing is archeology?
Archeology can be described as all of the following:- Academic discipline
- Science
- * Social science
Essence of archaeology
- Archaeological record
- Archaeological science
- Archaeological site
- Archaeological theory
- Artifacts
- Biofacts
- Excavation
Branches of archaeology
Archaeological practice
- Cultural Resources Management
- Archaeological ethics
- Urban archaeology
Archaeological science
- Archaeometry
- Dendrochronology
- Isotope analysis
- Palynology
- Radiocarbon dating
- Zooarchaeology
- Geoarchaeology
- Bioarchaeology
- Archaeogenetics
- Computational archaeology
Archaeological subdisciplines
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Taphonomy
By location
- African archaeology
- Australian archaeology
- European archaeology
- Russian archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Archaeology of China
- Archaeology of Israel
By time period
- Industrial archaeology
- Near Eastern archaeology
- Biblical archaeology
- Medieval archaeology
- Historical archaeology
- * Post-medieval archaeology
- * Industrial archaeology
- * Contemporary archaeology
Specialities
- Aerial archaeology
- Archaeoastronomy
- Archaeological science
- Archaeozoology
- Archaeobotany or paleoethnobotany
- Battlefield archaeology
- Computational archaeology
- Experimental archaeology
- Environmental archaeology
- Forensic archaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Maritime archaeology
- Museum studies
- Palaeoarchaeology
- Paleopathology
History of archaeology
- List of years in archaeology
Archaeological methods
- Archaeological excavation
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological geophysics
- Underwater archaeology
Archaeological theory
- Great ages archaeology
- Functionalism
- Processualism / "New Archaeology"
- Post-processualism
- Cognitive archaeology
- Gender archaeology
- Feminist archaeology
- History of archaeology
Archaeology by Period
- Lower Palaeolithic
- Middle Palaeolithic
- Upper Palaeolithic
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- Chalcolithic
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Romans
- Anglo-Saxons
- Pre-Columbian
- Medieval
- Industrial
Archaeological sites
- Feature
- Cairn
- Megalithic tomb
- Pyramid
- Sepulchre
- Tomb
- Votive site
Archaeological site features
Archaeological artifacts
- Assemblage
- Grave goods
- Hoard
- Manuport
- Sarcophagus
- Small finds
- Stone tool
- Votive deposit
Other archaeology concepts
- Alignment
- Archaeological association
- Archaeological context
- Archaeological culture
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological horizon
- Archaeological natural
- Archaeological phase
- Archaeological plan
- Archaeological record
- Archaeological sequence
- Biofact
- Collecting
- Colluvium
- Cropmarks
- Cultural resources management
- Cut
- Dark earth
- Dating methodology
- Dendrochronology
- Deposit model
- Ecofact
- Excavation
- Fill
- Fossil
- Geologic time scale
- Geomatics
- Grave robbing
- Ground-penetrating radar
- Harris matrix
- Law of superposition
- Lithic analysis
- Post excavation
- Projectile point
- Radiocarbon dating
- Relationship
- Seriation
- Stratification
Influential archaeologists
Archaeology lists
- List of archaeological periods
- List of archaeologists
- List of Russian archaeologists
- List of designations under the Protection of Wrecks Act
- List of famous archaeological sites
- * List of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age
- * List of archaeological sites sorted by country
- * List of Palaeolithic sites in China
- List of prominent paleoethnobotanists
- List of years in archaeology