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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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Archaeologists in Turkey Have Unearthed Human and Animal Sculptures That Are the Earliest Examples of Prehistoric Art | Artnet News (news.artnet.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Human and animal sculptures that could date to 9,600 B.C.E were found in Turkey at sites some believe have ties to biblical accounts.

The more we look, the further back human civilisation goes.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Turkey is so full of archeological wonders, they can't dig a hole without finding something.

I was so sad when I saw in one of their museums a section with artifacts recovered from what they called an "emergency escavation" before the scholars had to make way for the new construction that was going to happen on that particular site.

The museum didn't mince words either, clearly stated something like "what was possible to recover in the emergency escavation". Now it's just concrete over it.