archaeologistn.
/ˌɑːkɪˈɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌɑrkiˈɑlədʒəst/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history > student or supporter of
archaeologist1656
archaeologian1795
archaeologer1828
medievalist1855
Assyriologist1865
Hibernologista1869
Assyriologue1880
Sumerologist1888
Byzantinist1892
revisionist1925
prehistorian1936
Hittitologist1948
proto-historian1949
Islamicist1951
1656 P. K. Surfeit to A B C 57 The Attick Archeologist (full of reading, paines and learning) hath moulded up a piece of Antiquity, extracted for the most part from the Poets..and the Scholiasts, and obtrudes upon us these to be the general customes of the Athenians.
1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 330 Robertson was one of the very first English historical archæologists, if I may so speak, who had access to the inedited treasures of a few of the libraries in Italy.
2. An expert or specialist in the study of past peoples, societies, and cultures through the excavation, recording, and analysis of their material remains; a person who carries out archaeological excavation or research.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeologist
archaeologist1817
archaeological1824
archaeologue1839
archaeologian1844
prehistorian1853
archaeologer1911
digger1911
1817 Morning Chron. 6 Oct. The celebrated archæologist Count Camillo Borgia has just died in this city... He had spent a considerable time in Africa, and..was enabled to undertake excavations, to search for antiquities.
1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. i. 2 The archæologists have raised the study of antiquities to the rank of a science.
2020 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Aug. c12/1 Archeologists digging in Estonia a decade ago made a gruesome discovery: two boatloads of dead warriors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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