Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek: ???????, archaios, combining form in Latin archae-, "ancient"; and ?????, logos, "knowledge") is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.

The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture, understand culture history, chronicle cultural evolution, and study human behavior and ecology, for both prehistoric and historic societies. It is considered, in North America, to be one of the four sub-fields of anthropology. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology>

Industrial archaeology, like other branches of archaeology, is the study of material culture from the past, but with a focus on industry. Strictly speaking, industrial archaeology includes sites from the earliest times (such as prehistoric copper mining in the British Peak District) to the most recent (such as coal mining sites in the UK closed in the 1980s). However, since large-scale industrialisation began only in the eighteenth century it is often understood to relate to that and later periods. Industrial archaeologists aim to record and understand the remains of industrialisation, including the technology, transport and buildings associated with manufacture or raw material production. Their work encompasses traditional archaeology, engineering, architecture, economics and the social history of manufacturing/extractive industry as well as the transport and utilities sector. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_archaeology>

    * 1 Extractive
          o 1.1 Mining
          o 1.2 Quarrying
    * 2 Manufacturing
          o 2.1 Mills
    * 3 Public Utilities
          o 3.1 Electricity
          o 3.2 Gas
          o 3.3 Water
          o 3.4 Steam
          o 3.5 Hydraulic power
    * 4 Transport
          o 4.1 Aviation
          o 4.2 Canals
          o 4.3 Railways
          o 4.4 Marine
          o 4.5 Road
    * 5 Miscellaneous

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_archaeology_topics>

The phrase "industrial archaeology" is 50 years old. Technology? Social relations? The world since the industrial revolution, or industry since the first stone tool? Read how Michael Nevell considers the nature of an increasingly popular branch of archaeology. Click here for local version -or here for on-line version.

Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch have compiled a volume of essays intended to show us both how users consume, domesticate, (re)design, and resist new technologies as well as how users are defined and transformed by technology. A Review.

Kenneth Hudson OBE, MA, FSA (born 4 July 1916 ? died 28 December 1999) was an industrial archaeologist, museologist, broadcaster and author.

He was one of the most prominent personalities on the European museum scene and one of the pioneers of industrial archaeology in the 1960s, a broadcaster and the author of numerous books. In 1963 he wrote one of the first books on the subject, Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction, and in 1965 his Industrial Archaeology of Southern England. He was the first editor of the Journal of Industrial Archaeology in which, with others, he produced an annual review of the rapidly growing literature. In 1972 he published his book on Building Materials in the Longmans IA series, and in 1979 he co-wrote, with Julian Pettifer, Diamonds in the Sky, the result of historical research on the social history of air travel for the BBC television series of the same name.

The latter part of his career was largely devoted to work on museums, producing gazetteers such as the classic Cambridge Guide to Museums of Britain and Ireland (1987) on which he collaborated with Ann Nicholls.

He founded National Heritage, the UK museums action movement,in 1974 with John Letts and then the Museum of the Year Award. Subsequently he created the European Museum of the Year Award and the European Museum Forum, both aimed at stimulating the international interchange of ideas and creating networks of inspiration.

He was educated at the Lower School of John Lyon (now The John Lyon School), Harrow and left in 1933.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Hudson>