Main focus of two main branches of archaeology?

Answer 1

Archeology is the study of past and present human societies. It is both a science and a humanities discipline since it employs scientific methodology to retrieve artifacts and the humanities to study human culture.

The most important aspect of archeology is studying pre-historic, primitive societies since since there are no written records for historians to study. And prehistoric societies comprise 99% of total human history.

There are 5 sub-disciplines (not 2 in A:

Historical Ethnoarcheology Experimental Archeometry Cultural Resources Management

Answer 2

Two main branches are Historic (generally recognized as the period after Pre-Historic.

Historic equates to some kind of written record, in a modern language. Pre-Historic predates modern written records.

Answer 3

1. Prehistoric Archaeology focuses on studying ancient human societies before the invention of writing, through analyzing artifacts and remains.
2. Historical archaeology focuses on studying more recent human societies, usually with written records, to better understand their material culture and daily lives.

Answer 4

One branch studies the cultural remains of people who lived before history was written and the other branch studies civilizations that have developed since written history began.

Answer 5

Two branches of archeology are classical or historial archaeology and anthropological or prehistoric archeology.

Answer 6

One focuses on groupsof people who lived before history was written. The other studies civilizations that developed since people began writting things down.

Answer 7

As an example, submarine archaeology.