archaeology
/ˌɑːkɪˈɒlədʒɪ/( <美> 亦作archeology)
noun
mass noun
- the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains考古学。
派生词
archaeologic
adjectivearchaeological
adjectivearchaeologically
adverbarchaeologist
nounarchaeologize
（亦作 -ise）verb词源
early 17th cent. （in the sense 'ancient history'）： from modern Latin archaeologia, from Greek arkhaiologia 'ancient history'， from arkhaios 'ancient' （see ARCHAEO-）. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.