Archaeology vs Palaeontology - What's the difference?
archaeology | palaeontology |
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , pages 36,{1} 63,{2} and 64{3} (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
the actual excavation, examination, analysis and interpretation.
: the actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
: the academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
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As nouns the difference between archaeology and palaeontology
is that archaeology is the study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains: while palaeontology is .archaeology
English
(wikiversity archaeology lecture)Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth) * archeology (primarily USA)Noun
(-)- {1} He first presented a complementary thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant' (1724–1804), in which he used the term “' archaeology ” for the first time, and which indicated the period of history to which he was constantly to return.
- {2} The latent grid of knowledge which organizes every scientific discourse and defines what can or cannot be thought scientifically — the process of uncovering these levels Foucault calls 'archaeology' .
- {3} “Archaeology'”, as the investigation of that which renders necessary a certain form of thought, implies an excavation of unconsciously organized sediments of thought. Unlike a '''history of ideas''', it doesn’t assume that knowledge accumulates towards any historical conclusion. '''Archaeology''' ignores individuals and their histories. It prefers to excavate '''impersonal''' structures of knowledge.
'''Archaeology''' is a task that ''doesn’t'' consist of treating discourse as signs referring to a real content like madness. It treats discourses, such as medicine, as ' practices that form the objects of which they speak.
- The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertakem.
- The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.
- She studied archaeology at Edinburgh University.