What Are The Goals Of Archaeology

1. What are the goals of archaeology?
The goals of archaeology are to find historical things and find out events that have happened.
2. What is culture?
Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
3. How is the archaeological record used to date artifacts?
Some archaeologist use carbon rating.
4. Describe the process of archaeological research.
The process of archaeological research would be going through land research, knowing pinpoints and where to look. I know that some archaeologist learn how to read different texts but im not sure what the text is called right now.
5. How do preservation conditions affect the characteristics of a site?
Preservation conditions affect the characteristics of a site in a way of showing how old something might be or if its preserved by the conditions of the land.

Critical Thinking Questions
1. Why do you think it is so important that archaeologists reject a theory if their findings do not support it?
I think that it is so important that archaeologists reject a theory if their finding do not support it because then they’re kind of guiding themselves nowhere, but who knows maybe that turn back and rejection could have taken them far. The possibilities are endless.
2. Why do you think an artifacts context is so important in archaeology?
I think an artifacts context is so important in archaeology because there are things that are needed to be known about artifacts..
3. Which of the archaeological research process do you think would be most difficult? Why?
I honestly might think the foundation of it might be, with the research of everything, im sure if I were getting paid for it though id be more about it. I like the idea of archaeologist and what they do for a living, it seems like an exciting lifestyle that might be to die for.
4. Which part of the archaeological research process would you most enjoy doing? Why?
I think throughout the whole process I would love to travel to find these things and learn different texts of writings and seeing how old things are.
5. If a processual archaeologist was researching our culture 1,000 years from now, what environmental changes might they identify that have shaped our society? Explain.
They might find out that what runs our world most is money, that the things we did in our time were self destructive. I mean im sure it could have been the same back then but everything seems to escalate.