Archaeology

'Environmental archaeology 'is a sub-field of archaeology and is the science of reconstructing the relationship between ancient peoples and the environments they lived in. The field is an archaeological-palaeoecological approach to examining the paleoenvironment.

This field aims to understand whether the environment of ancient peoples was a driving force in cultural change or merely a factor in its development. Reconstructing past environments gives archaeologists insight as to what adaptations past peoples needed to undergo in order to survive, and what environmental changes may have played a role in their disappearance.

Environmental archaeology is commonly divided into three sub-fields:

archaeobotany (the study of plant remains) 

zooarchaeology (the study of faunal remains)

archaeopedology (The study of soil, especially the creation, characteristics, distribution, and uses of the soil)