Archaeology is a source of history, not just a humble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical (47) in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts. Just as much (48) any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to (49) the process that has created the human world to which we live—and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and (50) environment. Archaeological data are all changes in the material world (51) from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human behavior. The sum total of these constitutes (52) may be called the archaeological record. This record exhibits certain (53) and deficiencies the consequences of which produce a rather superficial (54) between archaeological history and the more familiar kind based (55) written records. Not all human behavior fossilizes. The words I utter and you hear as vibrations in the air are of great importance, (56) they leave no sort of trace in the archaeological records unless recorded.A) socialI) likeB) asJ) contrastC) what K) destroyD) upon L) similarityE) document M) reconstituteF) yet N) resultingG) and O) commonalitiesH) relic