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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.
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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.
Anybody else a bit weirded out by the fact that some 1/4 of the article is spent talking about fringe religious beliefs rather than the actual awesome history of the site?
What a sensationalist title. The lion-man of Germany is a much older sculpture, and if memory serves there are cave paintings that are older still.
This is a sensational find that enriches our understanding of a region and period of history that is still not well known. There's no need to lie.
The byline directly under the title says they could be the oldest painted sculpture found. Of course some shameless scumbag editor turns that into a title about "earliest art".
Right, my point exactly. They lie and compromise the integrity of the publication for... What, a few extra baited clicks and infamy?
I didnโt realize 9,600 years ago was as far back as our archeological record of art goes.
Yeah pretty sure there's cave art in France that's 2-3x as old as that
11600 years ago I mean