archeology
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- noun
- /ˌɑrkiˈɑlədʒi/
- US
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arqueología
- In archeology, one must have infinite patience.
Most of most of our understanding of cities comes from archaeology.
- Most of most of our understanding of cities comes from archaeology.
- Our research process is very much that of field archaeology.
- All of those tetrarchs, all of those governors, Pontius Pilate and obviously Tiberia Caesar are all verified by both archaeology.
- That's that's one more foot out of the science box that archaeology often steps.
- You would be out of that archaeology degree and your position in a week.
- Archie archaeologist, Archie, Archie archaeology, Archie Allah gist is that right?
- Because it's really important to understand that archaeology is often driven by accidental fines.
Examples
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She was studying archeology at Barnard, right?
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His extraordinarily influential work, Orientalism, is precisely an archeology of cultural authority.
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You would be out of that archaeology degree and your position in a week.
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The ultimate value in archaeology is to understand ourselves, our condition today.
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I'm a tenured professor of archeology.
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Now, this was the pioneering age of archaeology in Iraq.
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He's an archeology major at Princeton.
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And the other thing is that it has practical implications because what we learn in archaeology we can use in forensics and vice versa.
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Because it's obvious that you've spent your life in archaeology doing the work, hands on, eating the gruel, as you say, the bones.
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The students in the archaeology class are excited to begin excavating ancient artifacts at the dig site.
Synonyms
The study of very old tools and objects from before written history
Compounds
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The study of human history under water, for example sunken ships
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A study of people's past using objects found under water, like shipwrecks
Surface Forms
Morphology
archeology = archeo + logy
The word is built from the classical combining form archeo- meaning 'ancient' and the suffix -logy meaning 'study', but the combining form is not a common standalone English word.
Etymology
Archeology comes from Greek parts: archaeo- meaning 'ancient' and -logy meaning 'study', like the -logy in biology. So, archaeology is the 'study of ancient things', which is why archaeologists dig up old tools, buildings and bones.