What does Archaeological mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. archaeological, archeological, archaeologic, archeologicadjective

    related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology

    "an archaeological dig"; "a dramatic archaeological discovery"

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  1. archaeologicaladjective

    Relating to the science or research of archaeology.

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  1. archaeological

    Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography.Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes over 99% of the human past, from the Paleolithic until the advent of literacy in societies around the world. Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time. Derived from the Greek, the term archaeology literally means "the study of ancient history".The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Archaeology developed out of antiquarianism in Europe during the 19th century, and has since become a discipline practiced around the world. Archaeology has been used by nation-states to create particular visions of the past. Since its early development, various specific sub-disciplines of archaeology have developed, including maritime archaeology, feminist archaeology, and archaeoastronomy, and numerous different scientific techniques have been developed to aid archaeological investigation. Nonetheless, today, archaeologists face many problems, such as dealing with pseudoarchaeology, the looting of artifacts, a lack of public interest, and opposition to the excavation of human remains.

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  1. archaeological

    Archaeological refers to the scientific study of historic or prehistoric humans and their cultures by analyzing the artifacts, human and animal remains, architecture, and landscapes they left behind. It also pertains to anything related to or associated with archaeology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Archaeological

    relating to archaeology, or antiquities; as, archaeological researches

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Archaeological in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Archaeological in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Archaeological in a Sentence

  1. Frederic Gleach:

    I'm reluctant to sacrifice the material in order to do that much archaeological work, in particular, radiocarbon dating is destructive by nature... Once you have burned the sample to run radiocarbon dating, it's gone.

  2. Mahmoud El-Halwagi:

    An archaeological committee was assigned to inspect the mask and beard in order to write a detailed report on the mask's condition.

  3. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin:

    The profit derived by the Islamists from the illicit trade in antiquities and archaeological treasures is estimated at U.S. $150-200 million per year.

  4. Christophe Snoeck:

    We did not expect to see so many individuals having a signal that shows they did not [ live ] near Stonehenge in the last decade or so of their life, to me the really remarkable thing about our study is the ability of new developments in archaeological science to extract so much new information from such small and unpromising fragments of burnt bone.

  5. Sally Hollingworth:

    We were originally hoping to find marine fossils, and finding something so significant instead has been a real thrill, even better than that is seeing it turn into a major archaeological excavation led by DigVentures, and a BBC documentary presented by David Attenborough. We couldn't be more pleased that something we've discovered will be learned from and enjoyed by so many people.

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