Archaeology investigates the remnants, the remains, of human culture from antiquity and tries to sort it out, and just to figure out “What is it that we have and what can we recover?” and then goes from there to ask “How does it shed light on narratives and stories, literature that has survived from the past?” Think of archaeology really as an effort to recover—recover material culture, human material culture. It means looking for dwelling places, structures, buildings—private and public—that were