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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.
Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways 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. Read more...
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I cross-posted this in the Linguistics comm ([email protected]), with a few additional comments. Might as well share them here:
There's an earlier study from the Max Plank Society that estimates the family to be 8k years old (this one gives makes it 6kyo). That study was using a glottochronology technique; it gives you a decent guess about the age of a family/branch, but this one gives you actual data instead.
And yet both kind of mix the Caucasian and Steppes hypotheses - with Early PIE in the Caucasus, Late PIE in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.
Ah, I wasnโt aware of that community, thank you!
Discloser: I'm one of the mods there :)
Feel welcome to post everything language there!
Well, I'm a big fan of the sciences so I spend a lot of time reading mander.xyz communities, subbed, I'll contribute whenever I come across something relevant.