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Article: Archaeology
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGY.
The modern discipline of interpreting the human past by means of material remains is built upon five centuries of antiquarian and scholarly pursuits. Study of the physical remains of the Greco-Roman past complemented the ardent search for classical texts during the Italian Renaissance, since artifacts and monuments provide a visible, tangible, authoritative (and sometimes alternative) past. Early humanists such as Petrarch and Boccaccio studied coins and inscriptions along with their philological inquiries, and Vitruvius's (first century b.c.e.) treatise on architecture stimulated surveys of architectural remains and the topography of Rome by architects such ...
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