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Definition of Archaeology
1. Noun. The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures.
Examples of category: Anastylosis, Armilla, Barrow, Burial Mound, Grave Mound, Tumulus, Civilisation, Civilization, Culture, Clovis Culture, Folsom Culture, Archeological Site, Dig, Excavation, Eitchen Midden, Kitchen Midden, Midden, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Stone Age
Generic synonyms: Anthropology
Specialized synonyms: Assyriology, Egyptology, Sumerology, Marine Archaeology, Marine Archeology, Underwater Archaeology, Underwater Archeology, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoclimatology, Palaeogeography, Paleogeography, Paleography, Palaeopathology, Paleopathology, Palaetiology, Paletiology, Palaeology, Paleology, Protoanthropology, Protohistory, Palaeoethnography, Paleoethnography
Derivative terms: Archaeologic, Archaeological, Archaeologist, Archeologic, Archeological, Archeologist
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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Archaeology
1. [n -GIES]
Medical Definition of Archaeology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaeology
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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