What is Archaeology?
Xia Nai
Ancient things are the subject of study archaeology, but as a scientific discipline, archaeology is very new field. Its origins, though, early because once society has developed to certain stage, and ideas consciousness its members have they generate an interest in their own historical past relics traces left behind by ancient ancestors. For all sorts reasons collect investigate objects life, some even go further record findings explore meaning, undertaking specific research on individual items. All this, however, merely foreshadows archaeology; it not yet what scholastic circles today would call scientific, modern archaeology.
Chinese Sociology and Anthropology