speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of
material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains,
and landscapes.
The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture,
understand culture history, chronicle cultural evolution, and study human behavior and ecology, for
both prehistoric and historic societies. It is considered in North America to be one of the four
sub-fields of anthropology.
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