Outline of archaeology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to archaeology:

Archaeology – study of cultures through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.

Archaeology can be described as all of the following:

• Academic discipline
• Science
  • Social science

• Archaeological ethics
• Archaeological excavation
• Archaeological record
• Archaeological science
• Archaeological site
• Archaeological theory
• Artifacts
• Biofacts
• Excavation

• Cultural Resources Management
• Archaeological ethics
• Urban archaeology

Archaeological science

• Archaeometry
• Dendrochronology
• Isotope analysis
• Palynology
• Radiocarbon dating
• Zooarchaeology
• Geoarchaeology
• Bioarchaeology
• Archaeogenetics
• Computational archaeology

• Subfields of archaeology
• Ethnoarchaeology
• Taphonomy

• List of archaeological sites by country
• African archaeology
• Australian archaeology
• European archaeology
• Russian archaeology
• Archaeology of the Americas
• Archaeology of Ayodhya
• Archaeology of the Channel Islands
• Archaeology of China
• Archaeology of Cyprus
• Archaeology of India
• Archaeology of Iowa (United States)
• Archaeology of Israel
• Archaeology of Northern Europe
• Archaeology of the Philippines
• Archaeology of Qatar

• Industrial archaeology
• Near Eastern archaeology
• Biblical archaeology
• Medieval archaeology
• Historical archaeology
  • Post-medieval archaeology
  • Industrial archaeology
  • Contemporary archaeology

• Aerial archaeology
• Archaeoastronomy
• Archaeological science
• Archaeozoology
• Archaeobotany or paleoethnobotany
• Battlefield archaeology
• Computational archaeology
• Experimental archaeology
• Environmental archaeology
• Forensic archaeology
• Landscape archaeology
• Maritime archaeology
• Museum studies
• Palaeoarchaeology
• Paleopathology

History of archaeology

• Table of years in archaeology

• Archaeological excavation
• Archaeological field survey
• Archaeological geophysics
• Underwater archaeology

Archaeological theory

• Great ages archaeology
• Functionalism
• Processualism / "New Archaeology"
• Post-processualism
• Cognitive archaeology
• Gender archaeology
• Feminist archaeology
• History of archaeology

• List of archaeological periods
• List of archaeological periods (North America)
• Lower Palaeolithic
• Middle Palaeolithic
• Upper Palaeolithic
• Mesolithic
• Neolithic
• Chalcolithic
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age
• Romans
• Anglo-Saxons
• Pre-Columbian
• Medieval
• Industrial

Archaeological site

• Feature
• Cairn
• Megalithic tomb
• Pyramid
• Sepulchre
• Tomb
• Votive site

• Assemblage
• Grave goods
• Hoard
• Manuport
• Sarcophagus
• Small finds
• Stone tool
• Votive deposit

• Alignment
• Archaeological association
• Archaeological context
• Archaeological culture
• Archaeological field survey
• Archaeological horizon
• Archaeological natural
• Archaeological phase
• Archaeological plan
• Archaeological record
• Archaeological sequence
• Biofact
• Collecting
• Colluvium
• Cropmarks
• Cultural resources management
• Cut
• Dark earth
• Dating methodology
• Dendrochronology
• Deposit model
• Ecofact
• Excavation
• Fill
• Fossil
• Geologic time scale
• Geomatics
• Grave robbing
• Ground-penetrating radar
• Harris matrix
• Law of superposition
• Lithic analysis
• Post excavation
• Projectile point
• Radiocarbon dating
• Relationship
• Seriation
• Stratification

List of archaeologists

• List of archaeological periods
• List of archaeologists
• List of Russian historians
• List of designations under the Protection of Wrecks Act
• List of archaeological sites by country
  • List of archaeological sites by continent and age
  • List of Paleolithic sites in China
• List of paleoethnobotanists
• Table of years in archaeology

• The Society for American Archaeology
• The World Archaeological Congress
• The Archaeological Institute of America