Barry Fell on archaeology in the strictest and original sense of the word



"America BC", p. 29-30.

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Ancient history generally, for 2 centuries after 1607.

Antiquity -

oral tradition
monuments
written manuscripts

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"Modern archaeology, relying mainly on discoveries made
by excavating the ruins of former human habitations and
other traces left by ancient peoples, grew out of the
groundwork of these early students of ancient manuscripts."

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