Abstract: The historical roots of archaeology lie in the curiosity of ancient cultures about the people who came before them. One finding of contemporary archaeology is that humankind has almost universally been curious about the past and has collected material evidence of it. What we today call archaeology is an amalgamation of changing ways of thinking in response to the testing of theories and new finds across the globe. This discussion looks at the coalescence of archaeological thought from ancient times to the mid-nineteenth century.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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