Observe the fossil record and posit theories about how these organizms lived and died,their diet, environment, social structure, culture.
I have never encountered the fossil record while doing archaeology. I work in the US, and at the time periods we deal with, fossilization has not yet occurred. We do deal with "how these organizms lived and died,their diet, environment, social structure, culture," but it is humans and human cultures we are dealing with, not fossils.
[We do deal with “how these organizms lived and died,their diet, environment, social structure, culture,” but it is humans and human cultures we are dealing with, not fossils.]
By watchign video cassettes of them in action no doubt— als by reading newspapaers that are dated about 66 million years old which show pictures of dinos and macro-evolving oprganisms- after all [And, that science is verifiable, which divine revelation is not.] Yup- no assumptions whatsoever- just verify evolution by watching millions year old Videos.
Believe what you want, but don’t call it science.