Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology/Outline
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This page outlines content within the scope of WikiProject Archaeology.
The Discipline
[edit]Core elements
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- Archaeological record
- Archaeological science
- Archaeological site
- Archaeological theory
- Artifacts
- Biofacts
- Excavation
Archaeological methods and practice
[edit]Subfields
[edit]- Archaeoastronomy
- Battlefield archaeology
- Funerary archaeology/Mortuary archaeology/archaeology of death and burial
- Maritime archaeology
- Museum studies
Survey and site discovery
[edit]Archaeological science
[edit]Dating
Archaeological approaches
[edit]By location
[edit]- African archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Australian archaeology
- European archaeology
- Russian archaeology
By time period
[edit]- Industrial archaeology
- Near Eastern archaeology
- Biblical archaeology
- Medieval archaeology
- Historical archaeology
History and theory
[edit]- Great ages archaeology
- Functionalism
- Processualism / "New Archaeology"
- Post-processualism
- Cognitive archaeology
- Gender archaeology
- Feminist archaeology
- Archaeological ethics
The archaeological record
[edit]Features
[edit]- Main article: Feature
Artifacts
[edit]- Main article: Artifact
Other concepts
[edit]- Alignment
- Archaeological association
- Archaeological context
- Archaeological culture
- Archaeological field survey
- Archaeological horizon
- Archaeological natural
- Archaeological phase
- Archaeological plan
- Archaeological record
- Archaeological sequence
- Biofact
- Colluvium
- Cropmarks
- Cultural resources management
- Cut
- Dark earth
- Dating methodology
- Dendrochronology
- Deposit model
- Ecofact
- Excavation
- Fill
- Fossil
- Geologic time scale
- Geomatics
- Grave robbing
- Ground-penetrating radar
- Harris matrix
- Law of superposition
- Lithic analysis
- Post excavation
- Projectile point
- Radiocarbon dating
- Relationship
- Seriation
- Stratification
Archaeologists
[edit]Education, Institutions and Organisations
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Lists
[edit]Also a sub-category
- List of significant archaeological discoveries
- List of prominent paleoethnobotanists
- List of years in archaeology
The past
[edit]The organization of knowledge about the past can be done in two primary ways: by regions or by periods - space or time.
The chronological content is organized going backward in time as one reads down: older periods appear below more recent ones as they do in archaeological texts and in the ground due to stratification.
This page is designed to provide an overall picture of both those approaches. It classifies content (or its lack) on Wikipedia not necessarily our state of knowledge as it is.
Notes
- As of April 2013 coverage of the archaeological past was arguably too Eurocentric, particularly for major synthetic articles, templates and timelines. This needs addressing as it is an example of systemic bias.
- Frameworks for thinking about space and time are varied and often argued about! The intention here is to use the most pragmatic and accepted frameworks that facilitates the organisation of articles
Archaeology by Period
[edit]Main article: List of archaeological periods -
Historic Archaeology
[edit]Note
- Archaeologists now work on everything up to the present day (see: Contemporary archaeology). Articles need organising to reflect this and to not just reflect Anglo-American historic periods.
Prehistoric Archaeology
[edit]Synoptic table
[edit]This table synthesises and organises the archaeological content on Wikipedia by continent or region and by period at a very general level. Where possible it should link to the highest-level synthetic articles or lists. If there are glaring omissions in the selection of synthetic articles "Redlinks" may be created. This table uses Before Present (eg, 'Present' = AD1950 the radiocarbon dating definition) as a step toward culturally neutral chronology.
Periods and stages in archaeology – also a sub-category'
- Prehistory - in need of serious cleanup
Archaeology by region
[edit]Also a sub-category
- List of archaeological periods – also in sub-category