Archaeology — Greek archaiologia, "the study of ancient things" — is far older as an impulse than as a profession. Babylon's last king, Nabonidus, was already digging into ruined temple foundations in the sixth century BCE, hunting the inscriptions of kings fifteen centuries before him. (1)
The profession is built around an uncomfortable fact its own maxim states plainly: excavation is destruction. A layer of soil, once dug, can never be re-dug, so every observation must be recorded the first and only time it can be made.
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Archaeology — Greek archaiologia, "the study of ancient things" — is far older as an impulse than as a profession. Babylon's last king, Nabonidus, was already digging into ruined temple foundations in the sixth century BCE, hunting the inscriptions of kings fifteen centuries before him.
The profession is built around an uncomfortable fact its own maxim states plainly: excavation is destruction. A layer of soil, once dug, can never be re-dug, so every observation must be recorded the first and only time it can be made.
This page follows the job from Nabonidus and the royal tunnels of Pompeii through Champollion's decipherment, Petrie's pottery sequences, Carter's "wonderful things" and Kenyon's trenches at Jericho, to the radiocarbon, DNA and LiDAR revolutions that have remade it.
No — that is paleontology, a branch of geology and biology. Archaeology studies humans and their ancestors through the material they left behind: tools, buildings, bones, seeds, rubbish. The two fields overlap only at human evolution sites like Olduvai Gorge, where archaeologists and paleoanthropologists work side by side.
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