Editing Classics (section)

===Archaeology===
{{Main|Classical archaeology}}
[[File:Lion Gate Mykene with Wilhelm Dörpfeld 1891.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Black and white photograph of the Lion Gate at Mycenae.|Schliemann and Dörpfeld's excavation at Mycenae was one of the earliest excavations in the field of classical archaeology.]]
Classical archaeology is the oldest branch of archaeology,<ref>{{harvnb|Dyson|1993|p=205}}</ref> with its roots going back to [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann|J. J. Winckelmann]]'s work on [[Herculaneum]] in the 1760s.<ref name="Renfrew80-288">{{harvnb|Renfrew|1980|p=288}}</ref> It was not until the last decades of the 19th century, however, that classical archaeology became part of the tradition of Western classical scholarship.<ref name="Renfrew80-288"/> It was included as part of Cambridge University's [[Classical Tripos]] for the first time after the reforms of the 1880s, though it did not become part of Oxford's [[Literae Humaniores|Greats]] until much later.<ref name="Stray 1996 83"/>

The second half of the 19th century saw [[Heinrich Schliemann|Schliemann]]'s excavations of [[Troy]] and [[Mycenae]]; the first excavations at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] and [[Delos]]; and [[Arthur Evans]]' work in Crete, particularly on [[Knossos]].<ref>{{harvnb|Renfrew|1980|p=287}}</ref> This period also saw the foundation of important archaeological associations (e.g. the [[Archaeological Institute of America]] in 1879),<ref>{{harvnb|Stray|2010|p=5}}</ref> including many foreign archaeological institutes in Athens and Rome (the [[American School of Classical Studies at Athens]] in 1881, [[British School at Athens]] in 1886, [[American Academy in Rome]] in 1895, and [[British School at Rome]] in 1900).<ref>{{harvnb|Stray|2010|pp=4–5}}</ref>

More recently, classical archaeology has taken little part in the theoretical changes in the rest of the discipline,<ref>{{harvnb|Dyson|1993|p=204}}</ref> largely ignoring the popularity of "[[New Archaeology]]", which emphasized the development of general laws derived from studying material culture, in the 1960s.<ref>{{harvnb|Dyson|1993|p=196}}</ref> New Archaeology is still criticized by traditional minded scholars of classical archaeology despite a wide acceptance of its basic techniques.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Darvil|first1=Timothy|title=New Archaeology|encyclopedia=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology |edition=2nd|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001/acref-9780199534043-e-2752|via=Oxford Reference|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=2016-07-16|isbn=9780199534043|date=January 2009}}</ref>