Definition of Archaeology

1. Noun. The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures.


Definition of Archaeology

1. Noun. The study of the past through material remains. Often focused upon the life and culture of ancient peoples, but also applied to the more recent past. In American usage, one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology. ¹

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Definition of Archaeology

1. [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Archaeology

1. The science or study of antiquities, especially. Prehistoric antiquities, such as the remains of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc. Origin: Gr.; ancient (fr. Beginning) + discourse, to speak. (04 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaeology

archaeogeneticist
archaeogenetics
archaeoglobales
archaeoglobus
archaeoglobus fulgidus
archaeography
archaeolithic
archaeologian
archaeologians
archaeologic
archaeological
archaeologically
archaeologies
archaeologist
archaeologists
archaeology (current term)
archaeomagnetic
archaeomagnetism
archaeometallurgist
archaeometallurgists
archaeometallurgy
archaeometrist
archaeometrists
archaeometry
archaeon
archaeons
archaeophyte
archaeophytes
archaeopteryx
archaeopteryxes

Literary usage of Archaeology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1898)
"The scathing impeachment at the close sufficed for his purpose. 2i. Classical archaeology — a new force in Classical Studies,1 by Dr. JH ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It may thus be conceived how vast a field archaeology embraces, ... The archaeology of zoological species constitutes the sphere of palaeontology (? ..."

3. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"... the coming of Columbus, falls within the domain of the prehistoric archaeology of America. This recent science of Prehistoric archaeology deals mainly ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"A brief parenthesis may be allowed at this point on the application of the science of archaeology to things Christian. For more than a century had the ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"Discovery of ancient Egyptian mines (Misc.), 3 : 526. Eskimos in ancient New Jersey (Misc.), 27 : 567. Evolution of the fish-hook (Misc.), 37 : archaeology. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The same rule is applicable to the primitive archaeology of all countries ; and a fertile source of error and misconception has already had its rise in the ..."

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