Archeology is the study of people in the past and the

items that they left behind. People left a variety of

things. So, think about all the things you use on a day-to-day

basis and think about someone finding those hundreds of years

later and what they would learn about you as a person and we

can use those tools as archeologists, those bread

crumbs, that evidence in that the trash basically to learn

more about the people that use them. Archeology is actually a

sub discipline of anthropology and anthropology

is the study of people and so there's various ways that

anthropologists study people there's linguistics which

studies language, there's cultural which studies you know

modern people, and there's biological which you can think

of as studying the human body and the history of the human

body. And then there's archeology and archeology

basically studies past peoples and they study past peoples by

looking at the things that people leave behind in various

places where they've lived, worked, and played.

Okay. So, archeology is the study of past cultures by

looking at the stuff they left behind.

That can include bones but it usually doesn't. It's usually what we

call artifacts which are just things that were modified by

people. So, I always call an artifact uh like the stuff that

people left behind in the past. So, you think about you use

a certain utensil and then you end up throwing it away. Well,

we could find that hundreds of years later and learn, oh, they

use this type of utensil for cooking, for eating, things

like that. So, it's basically evidence of the lives that people lived

in the past. There were people here. They were living here.

They were loving and growing families and experiencing

hardships and joys just like we do now and this is an

opportunity to kind of touch their lives in a way and bring

them into the present and help tell their story.