Archaeology started out as a very well-disciplined science.

The early archaeology of Egypt, later to be named Egyptology, was really not much more than modern tomb robbing by the English.

The archaeological works of both Layard and Stephens began a period of understanding about ancient civilizations later to be contradicted by Darwin.

General Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers is considered to be one of the first scientific archaeologists.

Archaeology is the scientific study of ancient human behavior based on the surviving material remains of the past.

Cultural resource management is a useful technique for the removal and preservation of sites that might otherwise be in the way of future real estate development.

The Grotte de Chauvet is a frieze of black wild horses, oxen, and two woolly rhinoceroses, bison, and mammoths, found by French cave explorers in the former colony of Algeria.

American archaeologist Kathleen Deagan has excavated the site of Fort Mose in Florida, the first free African-American community in North America.

Archaeology can and has been used as a political tool.

Archaeology is an important source of information about the past as most societies were preliterate in the past.