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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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That's some great read.
Those muppets (alt right talking about antiquity) are a dime a dozen. You see a lot of them in 4chan, too. They look at the past with a "the grass was greener" mindset, cherry picking stuff to justify their political bullshit, without a single iot of critical thinking.
And they usually suck at understanding the past, as their cherry picking doesn't allow them to get a picture of how and why things happened. They obsess over the Roman Empire and Sparta, but when you talk about the Republic or Athens they go into "lalala I'm not listening lalala" mode - because both contradict their discourse of "we need a strong rule, like people in the past, to fight against degeneracy".
They'll also often screech if you mention why Octavius adopted the title of "imperator" (emperor) instead of "rex" (king). Because guess what, once they acknowledge why people in Republican Rome saw kings with disdain (kingdom = primitive system and breeding grounds for tyranny), all their political discourse goes down the drain, so Octavius had to "sell" his stupid idea under a different name.
Don't tell them about the Aurelian Moors, by the way. Or Caracalla's familiar background. Or do tell them, if you enjoy seeing them screech.
Chuds: "YES ROME SO MANLY PURE TESTOSTORONE"
Romans: "Too tall? Barbarian. Too much meat? Barbarian. Dick too big? Barbarian. Too aggressive? Barbarian. No self-control? Barbarian. Too much sex? Barbarian."
Yup. Because a cultured Roman was all about something those chuds lack - temperance.