Types of Archaeological Science
Archaeological science can be divided into the following areas:
- physical and chemical dating methods which provide archaeologists with absolute and relative chronologies
- artifact studies
- environmental approaches which provide information on past landscapes, climates, flora, and fauna; as well as the diet, nutrition, health, and pathology of people
- mathematical methods for data treatment (also encompassing the role of computers in handling, analyzing, and modeling the vast sources of data)
- remote-sensing and geophysical-survey applications comprising a battery of non-destructive techniques for the location and characterization of buried features at the regional, micro-regional, and intra-site levels
- conservation sciences, involving the study of decay processes and the development of new methods of conservation
Techniques such as lithic analysis, archaeometallurgy, paleoethnobotany, palynology and zooarchaeology also form sub-disciplines of archaeological science.
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