Archaeology seeks to reconstruct human past through material remains. As such, it supplies the much needed temporal dimension to the anthropologist’s endeavor to study cultures of present day simple societies. Any kind of archaeological work is inter-disciplinary in nature as the remains of the past are product of cultural and natural activity. Due to the nature of Archaeology, archaeological methods tend to differ greatly from the methods used in other branches of Anthropology. It tends to focus more on quantitative, lab work, and scientific analysis. An archaeological operation, in brief involves, identifying a potential area, systematically collecting the data, organizing the data, situating it in a specific cultural period by using dating methods, conserving and preserving them, and also interpreting them.
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