埋藏学是指专门研究生物死亡、破坏、风化、搬运、堆积和掩埋的整个过程,以及在这一过程中所受到的各种各样因素影响而发生变化的一门科学。早期的埋藏学被认为是古生物学的一个组成部分。现在的埋藏学已经超出了单纯属于古生学的范畴,渗透到考古学,尤其是史前考古领域,并牢牢地扎了根。从史前考古方面讲,当前,这一事业正在迅速发展。考古学家从遗址、地点和获得的文化遗物中要了解更多可能存在的信息,回答更多的有关古代人类生活与周围环境的 Burialism refers to a science that specializes in the entire process of biological death, destruction, weathering, handling, accumulation and burial, as well as changes that are affected by a variety of factors in the process. Early burial is considered as an integral part of paleontology. Nowadays, the study of burial has gone beyond the category of palaeontology and penetrated archeology, especially in the field of prehistoric archeology, and firmly took root. As far as prehistoric archeology is concerned, this cause is rapidly developing. Archeologists want to know more about the possible existence of sites, places and cultural relics, and to answer more questions about the ancient human life and the surrounding environment