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A HUNDRED YEARS OF ARCHAEOLOGY : ARCHAEOLOGY has at the present day two meaninga- A the study of the material remains of man's past, and the study of the material remains of man's prehistoric past. The first meaning, which for convenience we may refer to as general archaeology, comprises both prehistoric archaeology and historic archaeology; it deals with everything from coliths to time capsules, and covers such an enormous field that much of it is dealt with by specialist studies such as the history of art or the history of architecture. In this book our concern is mainly with prehistoric archaeology, with the development of what, in the last hundred years, has come to be known as prehistory. We shall only touch in a very general way on the archaeology of historic times.