What is "archeological"

Usage examples of "archeological".

The progressive accumulation of these types of data has accelerated during the past twenty years, as a result of archeological projects funded or required by government agencies.

This is necessary not only to provide order to what otherwise would be a series of unrelated archeological site and artifact descriptions, but also to determine which of those reports and descriptions are relevant to the prehistory during this time period.

Though some of my colleagues may find this approach cumbersome, it will help the less specialized readers share in the archeological experiences and processes that many of us take for granted.

Concurrently archeologists recognized pronounced similarities between the archeological remains found in Alaska and Siberia.

Additionally, a number of artifacts and archeological sites, although not conclusive, strongly suggested the presence of humans in the Americas long before the firmly documented and widely accepted Clovis sites.

There was little doubt that the first humans to enter the Americas came via the Bering Land Bridge, expanding into new territory and hunting the large Pleistocene mammals as they had done in the Old World where there were numerous, well-documented archeological sites.

If the hypothesis was correct, the oldest archeological sites in the New World would be located in Alaska, and it was obviously just a matter of time until they were discovered.

During this period numerous caves were located and excavated, Pleistocene-age river terraces and sand dunes were surveyed and tested for archeological remains, fossil shorelines of lakes were examined, and thick deposits of windblown silt, or loess, deposited during the Pleistocene were searched for evidence of former human activity.

The Llano complex, in turn, is lumped into a large group of archeological remains that also includes younger artifact assemblages characterized by projectile points similar in form but lacking the diagnostic flutes.

The concept of an archeological tradition implies that a common way of life and economic pattern was passed from generation to generation throughout long periods during prehistoric times.

From an archeological perspective a dramatic change in technology and economy is documented by the tangible evidence in the form of artifacts and cultural features preserved within the earth across the American continents.

These archeological sites provide mute testimony to the often cruel and brutal displacement of Native Americans by Euro-Americans.

It also requires that even older archeological remains must exist from which the later distinctive fluted point technology developed.

The remaining unanswered question is whether the peoples who occupied these archeological sites thousands of years ago shared a similar economic system based, at least to a large degree, on hunting mammoth and other extinct Pleistocene animals.

The fact that mammoth probably persisted until at least 11,000 years ago is significant because firmly documented archeological sites in Alaska are also that old.