I 
THE SCOPE OF ARCHEOLOGY. 
History as it pertain?to man is a comprehensive 
all-embracing term, and archeology may be defined as 
that phase or part of history which deals in a scientific 
way with the phenomena of art - material and immaterial, 
the history and significance of which having been partial¬ 
ly or wholly lost must be completed, interpreted or de¬ 
termined by research. Regarding history as all-embrac¬ 
ing there can be no such thing as prehistory, a pre- 
historic period, or prehistoric archeology. There can 
be no definition of history as a whole on a time basis. 
Ye may think of a single people as having an historic 
period, a period dating from the beginning of writing 
among that people; we may think of a people without 
writing which has a part in the written history of a 
neighboring more advanced nation, but the archeologic 
