Archaeology has many subfields–including both ways of thinking about archaeology and ways of studying archaeologyBiblical ArchaeologyDead Sea Scrolls Document 4Q325 Israel Antiquities Authority Tsila SagivTraditionally biblical archaeology is the name given to the study of the archaeological aspects of the history of the Jewish and Christian churches as provided in the Judeo-Christian bible Classical ArchaeologyGreek Vase Heraklion Museum by A PastafarianClassical archaeology is the study of the ancient Mediterranean including ancient Greece and Rome and their immediate forebears Minoans and Mycenaeans The study is often found in ancient history or art departments in graduate schools and in general is a broad culture-based study Cognitive ArchaeologyFor the Love of God Damien Hirst Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Getty ImagesArchaeologists who practice cognitive archaeology are interested in the material expression of human ways of thinking about things such as gender class status kinship Commercial ArchaeologyCrossroads Plaza in Palmyra Diane JabiCommercial archaeology is not as you might think the buying and selling of artifacts but rather archaeology which focuses on the material culture aspects of commerce and transportation Cultural Resource ManagementSave Pasargad and Persepolis Ebad HashemiCultural Resource Management also called Heritage Management in some countries is the way cultural resources including archaeology are managed at the governmental level When it works best CRM is a process in which all the interested parties are allowed to have some input into the decision about what to do about endangered resources on public property Economic ArchaeologyKarl Marx s Gravestone London 13bobbyEconomic archaeologists are concerned with how people control their economic resources most particularly but not entirely their food supply Many economic archaeologists are Marxists in that they are interested in who controls food supply and how Environmental ArchaeologyHuge tree in Angkor Wat Cambodia Marco Lo VulloEnvironmental archaeology is the subdiscipline of archaeology that focuses on the impacts of a given culture on the environment as well as the impact of the environment on that culture Experimental ArchaeologyFlint Knapper at Work Travis ShinabargerExperimental archaeology is a branch of archaeological study that replicates or attempts to replicate past processes to understand how the deposits came about Experimental archaeoloy includes everything from the recreation of a stone tool through flintknapping to reconstruction of an entire village into a living history farm Indigenous ArchaeologyCliff Palace at Mesa Verde 169 Comstock Images AlamyIndigenous archaeology is archaeological research which is conducted by the descendants of the people who built the towns camps burial sites and middens that are under study The most explicitly indigenous archaeological research is conducted in the United States and Canada by Native Americans and First Peoples Maritime ArchaeologyOseberg Viking Ship Norway Jim GateleyThe study of ships and sea-faring is often called maritime or marine archaeology but the study also includes investigations of coastline villages and towns and other topics related to life on and around the seas and oceans