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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.
Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.
The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...
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“You know old Ysgrid Steffansdottir? She died. I’ll remember her fondly. She loved seafood. Couldn’t shove enough of it in her mouth… Hold my mead, I have an idea.”
Haha, they don’t know about the 3 scallop shells
Humans do something weird, journalist claims people who study ancient humans are surprised.
I'm not an archie, but I've known enough to safely say they are not mystified. Humans do weird shit.
For example: "vampire" child burial
Maybe part of some kind of shroud?