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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

1.3.c Scope and relevance of Archaeological Anthropology

Archarological Anthropology studies culture and societies that existed in the past and reconstructts them to the extent of picturising them as they were. it is the study of past people and cultures through the recovery and examination of surveying fossil remains and artefacts and it is not only confined to the study of prehistory but has also added much information to the study of historic cultures not only by providing material evidence concerning the life of historic peoples, but aslo by uncovering lost documentary records.
To be precise, archaeologyical anthropology is concerned with the systematic retreival and analysis of the physical remains including the skeletal, cultural and non cultural remains left behind by ancient humans and with the reconstruction of environment, culture and society and identification of the processes and patterns of social cultural evolution of ancinet humans.
It is divided into three parts-
Text free  (old world and new world)
Texy aided
Applied archeology 

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