ar·chae·ol·o·gy
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
考古学 Oxford 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.