archeology
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Archeology Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Archeology
(a.)
Alt. of Archeological
(a.)
Alt. of Archeological
| WordNet 2.0 |
archeology
Noun
1. the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures
(synonym) archaeology
(hypernym) anthropology
(hyponym) Assyriology
(class) anastylosis
Noun
1. the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures
(synonym) archaeology
(hypernym) anthropology
(hyponym) Assyriology
(class) anastylosis
| hEnglish - advanced version |
archeology
archeology
\ar`che*ol"o*gy\ (&?;), n., archeological \ar`che*o*log`ic*al\ (&?;), a. same as arch?ology, etc.
similar words(2)
marine archeology
underwater archeology
archeology
\ar`che*ol"o*gy\ (&?;), n., archeological \ar`che*o*log`ic*al\ (&?;), a. same as arch?ology, etc.
similar words(2)
marine archeology
underwater archeology
Archeology Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan |
Archeology
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Archeology Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| A Dictionary of Postmodern Terms - Foucault Work |
archeology
[The] archeological level -- the level of what made [an event or a situation] possible." (The Order of Things, p.31) Strict analysis of discourse (Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.104) Archeology and genealogy alternate and support each other.(Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.105). Archeology is structuralist. It tries to take an objective neutral position and it avoids causal theories of change.
[The] archeological level -- the level of what made [an event or a situation] possible." (The Order of Things, p.31) Strict analysis of discourse (Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.104) Archeology and genealogy alternate and support each other.(Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.105). Archeology is structuralist. It tries to take an objective neutral position and it avoids causal theories of change.
Archeology Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Archaeology
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Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek: αρχαίος, archaios, combining form in Latin archae-, "ancient"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, features, biofacts, and landscapes. Because archaeology's aim it to understand humankind, it is a humanistic endeavor.
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