About Archaeology

What is Archaeology?

Archaeology is a way of learning about people who lived in the past by studying the things that they left behind.

Or, as Mick Aston from Time Team once said: archaeology is rubbish!!

A lot of the evidence that archaeologists look at is rubbish – objects that people threw away!

Using this evidence, archaeologists can find out about:

• where people lived
• what they ate
• what they believed
• what they wore
• what tools they used
• the effects they had on their environment
• and much more!

Archaeologists are like detectives! They use the evidence that they collect to try to build up a picture of what everyday life was like for people in the past.

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