What is the difference between archaeology and ethnography?

Question

What is the difference between archaeology and ethnography?

Answer 1

Archeology has to do with finding clues to vanished civilizations or eras that are older (archaeo); this requires the scientist to lay out the territory around the "find" and to define, draw lines around it.  Then one digs it up, recording everything found, at what depth, at what map coordinates exactly, numbering everything, not breaking it and preserving it for study, testing, analysis, dating, reassembly, reading etc.

Ethnography is the study of the races of humans, their origins, movements, characteristics, etc. The portion of this sub-branch of science overlaps archeology only where skeletons of human beings or proto-humans etc. found after many centuries are concerned; and living beings can give clues to ethnographic studies, as can blood types, cranial studies, and now even more sophisticated cellular, DNA, bone density, and other studies.

The overlap is critical but not very large at all.

Answer 2

Archeology looks at artifacts.  Those items left behind by a culture.  Ethnography actually studies living people and cultures in-situ.