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Answer all these three questions
- Why is archaeology unique among the human sciences?
- What are the key differences between processual and postprocessual archaeology?
- What is Marxist archaeology and how is it different from the New Archaeology?
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These questions are on book page 296, need to use chapter 10 materials to answer these questions.
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Running head: ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDY
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Archeological study
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ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDY
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Archaeology Uniqueness among the Human Sciences
Archeology is the study of the history and prehistory through the excavation of fossils
and other materials for study. It seeks to study this material and explain what happened or find a
reason for the present order of things. What makes archeology a unique field of study among the
social sciences is that it is difficult to explain the past yet it is the sole responsibility of
archaeologists to explain the past by studying the fossils and other artifacts that existed millions
of years ago. This field has a huge responsibility on its shoulders, both private and public. When
archaeologists excavate the ground, they are destroying the existing historical artifacts (Renfrew
& Bahn, 2016). They destroy everything else and only preserve whatever that is of interest
totem. Therefore, it is natural that they may face some kind of backlash from the public and even
personal guilt in th...
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