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  2. Cultural artifact - Wikipedia

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    Cultural artifact is a more generic term and should be considered with two words of similar, but narrower, nuance: it can include objects recovered from archaeological sites, i.e. archaeological artifacts, but can also include objects of modern or early-modern society, or social artifacts.

  3. Register of Professional Archaeologists - Wikipedia

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    The Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) is a professional organization of (primarily North American) archaeologists headquartered in Baltimore, MD. Members of the RPA agree to follow a standard code of research ethics and conduct and must be formally approved for membership by a panel of elected colleagues.

  4. Archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes over 99% of the human past, from the Paleolithic until the advent of literacy in societies around the world. [1]

  5. Cultural resource management - Wikipedia

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    The Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act of 1974, commonly known as the Moss-Bennett Act, helped to fuel the creation of CRM. [3] The National Park Service defines cultural resources as being "Physical evidence or place of past human activity: site, object, landscape, structure; or a site, structure, landscape, object or natural feature ...

  6. Community archaeology - Wikipedia

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    In community archaeology, by definition decisions cannot be made based on the information from only a handful of members from a given community. Although the number of consultants needed will vary, it is rare that a small subgroup can speak for the community as a whole. [81] Sometimes it is clear who should be contacted in a community.

  7. Archaeological culture - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological culture is a classifying device to order archaeological data, focused on artifacts as an expression of culture rather than people. [1] The classic definition of this idea comes from Gordon Childe: [2] We find certain types of remains – pots, implements, ornaments, burial rites and house forms – constantly recurring together.

  8. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of work, or industrial sociology, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations to the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the ...

  9. Material culture - Wikipedia

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    An archaeologist searches for evidence of glass objects among ruins. Archaeology is the study of humanity through the inferential analysis of material culture to ultimately gain an understanding of the daily lives of past cultures and the overarching trend of human history. [25]