Scope and Purpose of Archaeology - Diverse archaeological purposes and to be a long debate. Among these are the so-called archaeological paradigm, which is preparing the history of culture, understanding human behavior, and understand the process of cultural change. Because it aims to understand human culture, then this science belongs to the group of the humanities. Nevertheless, there are various scientific aids used, among others, history, anthropology, geology (the science of earth-forming layer is the reference relative age of an archaeological findings), geography, architecture, and bioantropologi paleoanthropology, physics (among others with carbon c- 14 to obtain the absolute pertanggalan), the science of metallurgy (to get the elements of a metal object), and philology (study the old manuscripts).

Archaeology in the present summarizes various related fields. For example, the discovery of the bodies are buried will attract experts from various fields to learn about the clothing and the type of materials used, the form of ceramics and the way the spread, confidence through what was interred with the corpse, chemists are able to determine the age of minerals by means of such methods of measurement carbon 14. While genetic experts who want to know the movement of ancient human migration, researching DNA.

In particular, archaeologists studying the cultural past, which is old age, both in prehistoric times (before known writings), as well as the historical period (when there is written evidence). In its development, archeology can also learn about the culture of today, as popularized in the modern material culture studies (modern material culture).

Because it depends on the relics of the past, then in desperate need of preservation of archaeological objects such as a data source. Therefore, later developed other disciplines, namely the management of archaeological resources (Archaeological Resources Management), or more broadly the cultural resource management (CRM, Culture Resources Management).