Article created by: Mantas Kačerauskas
Why did the archeologist go bankrupt? Because his career was in ruins!According to the Society for American Archaeology, “Archaeology is the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains.” This might include studying million-year-old fossils of our earliest human ancestors in Africa or even 20th-century buildings in present-day New York City. “Archaeology analyzes the physical remains of the past in pursuit of a broad and comprehensive understanding of human culture,” the SAA explains.

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