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Show the relationship between archaeology and history and archaeology and anthropology.

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:15:03
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 5 pages (1311 words)
Archaeology: "the study of the ancient" (Bahn, 1999). The study of prehistoric and historic civilizations as seen through what they have left behind in our earth, both the tangible and the intangible: artifacts, settlements, monuments, rubbish dumps, cultural behaviorisms, religions, legacies, and other remains. This definition alone already shows the bringing together and intertwining of archaeology, history and anthropology in order to piece together the scattered pieces of our past, hidden in our earth. It is …
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…BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bahn, Paul G. ed. 2000 The Atlas of World Archaeology, Oxfordshire; Andromeda Oxford Ltd. Bahn, Paul G. 1999 The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press Blot, Jean-Yves 1996 Underwater Archaeology, tr. Alexandra Campbell, New York; Harry N. Abrams Inc. (first published in French 1995) Garden, Glen 1980 Life B.C., London; Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. Renfrew, Colin; Bahn, Paul 2004<Tab/>Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, 4th edn., London; Thames and Hudson Ltd.
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