archaeology

archaeology
(美亦作 archeology)
noun

[mass noun]the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains
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archaeologic
adjective
archaeological
adjective
archaeologically
adverb
archaeologist
noun
archaeologize
verb

语源

early 17th cent. (in the sense 'ancient history'): from modern Latin archaeologia, from Greek arkhaiologia 'ancient history', from arkhaios 'ancient' (see archaeo-). The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent

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