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How do archaeologist reconstruct the past?

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  • Recovering artefacts through excavation.
  • Classification of finds that finds are whether tools or weapons or ornaments or both or something meant for ritual use.
  • An understanding of the function of an artifact is often shaped by it resemblance with present day things. Beads, pots are obvious examples.
  • Archaeologists reconstruct religious beliefs and practices by examining seals, some of which seen to depict ritual scenes.
  • Archaeologists often move from known to unknown that is from present to past regarding the reconstruction of religious practices.
  • Remains of crops or pits are studied to identify food.
  • By observing the different layers of sites they try to find out different things for the information of Socio-economic conditions, religious and cultural life of past people.
  • Archaeologists also try to identify the function of an artefact by investigating the context in which it was found.
  • Use of indirect evidence eg. for clothing they depend on indirect evidence like description in sculpture. 

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