archaeology
noun /ˌɑːkiˈɒlədʒi/
/ˌɑːrkiˈɑːlədʒi/
(North American English also archeology)
[uncountable]- the study of cultures of the past, and of periods of history by examining the parts of buildings and objects found in the ground see also industrial archaeologyTopics Historyb2, Scientific researchb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- Anglo-Saxon
- classical
- medieval
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘ancient history’): from modern Latin archaeologia, from Greek arkhaiologia ‘ancient history’, from arkhaios ‘ancient’. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.