Discuss how archaeologists reconstruct the past.
Reconstructing past is not an easy process; with the help of archaeologist this could be done.
• They execute the sights at which they think that they could discover something related to the culture or civilization of ancient past.
• All the remains found in the process of excavation are deeply studied with help of botanists and zoologists.
• The findings in the process of excavation maybe related to art and craft, skulls, bones, teeth, x-ray of dead bodies, plants, animal bones, etc.
• They try to find out the tools that were used in that era of past for cultivation and harvesting and other means of irrigation.
• Different layers of sites are studied to find different things including the social economic condition, religious life, cultural life, and other parts of the life of the people.
• On the basis of the remains, they frame their own views which help in reconstructing the past.