Outline of archaeology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to archaeology:

Archaeology – study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.

What type of thing is archaeology?
Archaeology can be described as all of the following:
 * Academic discipline
 * Science
 * Social science

Essence of archaeology

 * Archaeological ethics
 * Archaeological excavation
 * Archaeological record
 * Archaeological science
 * Archaeological site
 * Archaeological theory
 * Artifacts
 * Biofacts
 * Excavation

Archaeological practice

 * Cultural Resources Management
 * Archaeological ethics
 * Urban archaeology

Archaeological science
Archaeological science
 * Archaeometry
 * Dendrochronology
 * Isotope analysis
 * Palynology
 * Radiocarbon dating
 * Zooarchaeology
 * Geoarchaeology
 * Bioarchaeology
 * Archaeogenetics
 * Computational archaeology

Archaeological subdisciplines

 * Subfields of archaeology
 * Ethnoarchaeology
 * Taphonomy

By location

 * List of archaeological sites by country
 * African archaeology
 * Australian archaeology
 * European archaeology
 * Russian archaeology
 * Archaeology of the Americas
 * Archaeology of Ayodhya
 * Archaeology of the Channel Islands
 * Archaeology of China
 * Archaeology of Cyprus
 * Archaeology of India
 * Archaeology of Iowa (United States)
 * Archaeology of Israel
 * Archaeology of Northern Europe
 * Archaeology of the Philippines
 * Archaeology of Qatar
 * Archaeology of Qatar

By time period

 * Industrial archaeology
 * Near Eastern archaeology
 * Biblical archaeology
 * Medieval archaeology
 * Historical archaeology
 * Post-medieval archaeology
 * Industrial archaeology
 * Contemporary archaeology

Specialities

 * Aerial archaeology
 * Archaeoastronomy
 * Archaeological science
 * Archaeozoology
 * Archaeobotany or paleoethnobotany
 * Battlefield archaeology
 * Computational archaeology
 * Experimental archaeology
 * Environmental archaeology
 * Forensic archaeology
 * Landscape archaeology
 * Maritime archaeology
 * Museum studies
 * Palaeoarchaeology
 * Paleopathology

History of archaeology
History of archaeology
 * Table of years in archaeology

Archaeological methods

 * Archaeological excavation
 * Archaeological field survey
 * Archaeological geophysics
 * Underwater archaeology

Archaeological theory
Archaeological theory
 * Great ages archaeology
 * Functionalism
 * Processualism / "New Archaeology"
 * Post-processualism
 * Cognitive archaeology
 * Gender archaeology
 * Feminist archaeology
 * History of archaeology

Archaeology by Period

 * List of archaeological periods
 * List of archaeological periods (North America)
 * Lower Palaeolithic
 * Middle Palaeolithic
 * Upper Palaeolithic
 * Mesolithic
 * Neolithic
 * Chalcolithic
 * Bronze Age
 * Iron Age
 * Romans
 * Anglo-Saxons
 * Pre-Columbian
 * Medieval
 * Industrial

Archaeological sites
Archaeological site
 * Feature
 * Cairn
 * Megalithic tomb
 * Pyramid
 * Sepulchre
 * Tomb
 * Votive site

Archaeological artifacts

 * Assemblage
 * Grave goods
 * Hoard
 * Manuport
 * Sarcophagus
 * Small finds
 * Stone tool
 * Votive deposit

Other archaeology concepts

 * Alignment
 * Archaeological association
 * Archaeological context
 * Archaeological culture
 * Archaeological field survey
 * Archaeological horizon
 * Archaeological natural
 * Archaeological phase
 * Archaeological plan
 * Archaeological record
 * Archaeological sequence
 * Biofact
 * Collecting
 * Colluvium
 * Cropmarks
 * Cultural resources management
 * Cut
 * Dark earth
 * Dating methodology
 * Dendrochronology
 * Deposit model
 * Ecofact
 * Excavation
 * Fill
 * Fossil
 * Geologic time scale
 * Geomatics
 * Grave robbing
 * Ground-penetrating radar
 * Harris matrix
 * Law of superposition
 * Lithic analysis
 * Post excavation
 * Projectile point
 * Radiocarbon dating
 * Relationship
 * Seriation
 * Stratification

Influential archaeologists
List of archaeologists

Archaeology lists

 * List of archaeological periods
 * List of archaeologists
 * List of Russian historians
 * List of designations under the Protection of Wrecks Act
 * List of archaeological sites by country
 * List of archaeological sites by continent and age
 * List of Paleolithic sites in China
 * List of paleoethnobotanists
 * Table of years in archaeology