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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.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The remains of what is believed to be a henge monument and Roman pottery centre have been unearthed on the site of a new development in Nottinghamshire.

Archaeologists called in to survey the Middlebeck housing site near Newark said they uncovered evidence of human activity going back 12,000 years.

The first major find was the enclosure, which is dated to about 3,300 BC and contained the remains of a series of internal posts and pits, possibly forming one or more concentric arcs of upright timbers.

Another significant find was a polished stone axe head from Langdale, Cumbria, probably of a similar date to the enclosure.

However it was found buried with Iron Age pottery, from about 3,000 years later and bore marks likely to show its re-use as a whetstone, suggesting it had been valued for generations.

A spokesman for Oxford Archaeology said: "This number of kilns is largely unprecedented, certainly in the Newark area, and more widely across the Midlands.


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