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Archaeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artefacts, architecture, bio facts or eco facts and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of humanities. In North America, archaeology is considered to be a sub-field of anthropology, while in Europe, archaeology is often viewed as either a discipline in its own right or a subfield of other disciplines.

Archaeologists study human prehistory and history from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi, eastern Africa and 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology, as a field, is distinct from the discipline of palaeontology, the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies for whom there may be no written records to study. Prehistory includes over 99 percent of the human past, from the Palaeolithic until the advent of literacy in societies across the world. Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past life ways 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. It draws upon anthropology, history, classics, ethnology, geography, geology, linguistics, semiology, physics, information sciences, chemistry, statistics, paleoecology, palaeontology, paleozoology, etc.

Archaeology developed out of antiquarianism in Europe during the 19th century, and has since become a discipline practiced across the world. Since its early development, various specific sub-disciplines of archaeology have developed, including maritime archaeology, feminist archaeology and archaeoastronomy, and numerous different scientific techniques have been developed to aid archaeological investigation. Nonetheless, today, archaeologists face many problems, such as dealing with pseudo archaeology, the looting of artefacts, a lack of public interest and opposition to the excavation of human remains.