archaeology
noun(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 考古学 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- Anglo-Saxon
- classical
- medieval
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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.