archeologist
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3.7
- noun
- /ˌɑrkiˈɑlədʒɪst/
- US
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arqueólogo
- "In the queen's throne rooms, archeologists found a large oil jar, as big as a person, overturned on the ground."
So he wants to get information from these archaeologists, these experts who are there.
- So he wants to get information from these archaeologists, these experts who are there.
- Like, what would archaeologists be really wrong about?
- But the guy, you know, the guy, you, you can't paint all conventional archaeologists and academics that way.
- So it's upended the way that archaeologists get to think about man and about the birth of civilization.
- Maybe it'll all be under the earth and it'll be archaeologists who are trying to figure out what were these, these people up to?
- Either way, and no one really knows for sure, more more archaeologists are convinced that this was just purely accident.
- Now I I am no archaeologist, but that whale clearly knows exactly what it's doing.
- But I think another aspect is that, you know, we archaeologists really try to come up with hypotheses that we can test.
- And for for Michael Shanks, that's like, you know, not even a blip on the radar for an archaeologist.
- OK, well, I should first of all start by saying that I began life as both a historian and an archaeologist.
- So for example, Ganvier Lake in Benin and the work of the archaeologist Jay Cameron Monroe and things like that.
Examples
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I chatted with the archeologist, and she answered questions for me.
Academic text (2007) -
But often success as an archeologist depends on knowing where to dig.
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I am an archeologist from York.
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After a while, the woman archeologist left the site, and a man replaced her.
Academic text (2007) -
Eventually, I headed to Greece to spend a week with my archeologist sister, Nancy.
Blog text (10) -
He was an archeologist of some sort, lived in Bristol up until about 1854.
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Dr. Bravestone, famed archeologist and international explorer,
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We asked Sir Timothy Havelock, the marine archeologist, to secretly locate the wreck.
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The research, led by Arkansas Archeological Survey archeologist Dr. Skip Stewart-Abernathy, was conducted over a week in February 2009.
Academic text (2009) -
An experienced archeologist, she carefully excavated the ancient ruins to uncover hidden artifacts.
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
archeologist = archaeology (transparent) = archaeology + ist
Standard agent-noun formation from the noun 'archaeology' + '-ist' meaning 'person who practices or studies archaeology', which is predictable for learners.
Etymology
Archeologist comes from Greek parts meaning 'ancient' (archaeo-) and 'one who studies' (-logist, as in biologist). So an archeologist is a person who studies ancient things and the human past.