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archaeology

/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ noun B2
  1. The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The actual excavation, examination, analysis, and interpretation. (countable, uncountable) · The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertaken.
  3. The actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy. (countable, uncountable) · The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.
  4. The academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology. (countable, uncountable) · She studied archaeology at Edinburgh University.

Plural archaeologies

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She was born Dorothy Crowfoot in Cairo in 1910, the daughter of British parents who worked in education and archaeology, and she spent much of her childhood in England while they remained abroad.
The Patience of Dorothy Hodgkin, p. 1 · C2

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