单词 | archaeology |
释义 | archaeologyn.ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history ancient history1566 church story1581 archaeology1607 church history1609 local history1615 mythistory1731 human story1753 intellectual history1755 oral history1827 Assyriology1828 world history1833 hierologya1848 meta-history1854 Hibernologya1869 prehistory1871 proto-history1876 prehistorics1879 earth history1880 Sumerology1897 historiometry1909 black history1920 herstory1932 ethnohistory1938 meta-history1946 Annales1952 Hittitology1952 revisionism1965 longue durée1968 Warburgianism1977 1607 Bp. J. Hall Dauids Psalms Ep. Ded. in Holy Obseruations sig. G3 Sozomen..[wrote] all the Archaiology of the Iewes, till Savls gouernment. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. vi. 69 The Grecians were ignorant of the account of true Archeologie or Antiquitie. 1803 Archaeologia 14 211 The contents of the Archaiology of Wales are derived from..old manuscripts. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. iii. 481 The Decian persecution is remarkable in Christian archæology. 2. Originally: †the description and study of objects, monuments, works of art, etc., from the ancient past (obsolete). Now: the study of past peoples, societies, and cultures through the systematic excavation, recording, and analysis of artefacts, burials, structures, and other material remains.See also bioarchaeology n., ethnoarchaeology n., industrial archaeology n., prehistoric archaeology n., rescue archaeology, zooarchaeology n., etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > study of archaeology1782 the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology archaeology1782 archaeography1804 1782 R. Bage Mt. Henneth II. 83 His domain is called the hall of Archæology... The young gentleman has ransacked Wales for Roman antiquities; and has a good collection of medals. 1845 E. Hawkins Let. 17 Nov. in Morning Post 22 Nov. 3/4 The claims of archæology once publicly recognised, antiquities when discovered would no longer be ignorantly destroyed or dispersed, but would be scrupulously collected together into one place. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 38 Archæology displays old structures and buried relics of the remote past. 1923 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 9. 6 The archaeology of Palestine was in its infancy, and almost nothing was known about the criteria of age, character of site, and so on, which now enable the archaeologist to determine the main facts of the history of a site by an hour's reconnaissance. 2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Jan. 36/2 Everything we know from anthropology and archaeology..indicates that our distant ancestors were astonishingly violent. 3. The collective artefacts, burials, structures, and other material remains of a particular people, locality, period, etc., recovered through excavation or remaining in situ; archaeological remains. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > that which is found disinterment1825 grave-find1866 archaeology1876 earth fill1929 fill1952 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 165 Wyman's Fresh-Water Shell-Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida.—This very valuable contribution to our knowledge of the archaeology of North America is modestly asserted by its lamented author to be ‘a record of what he has observed and a contribution to the knowledge of these ancient relics of a race which has long since passed away’. 1923 Amer. Anthropologist 25 252 We do not know anything about the archaeology of the region extending from Hudson's Bay west to the Rockies. 2011 M. Welch in H. Hamerow et al. Oxf. Handbk. Anglo-Saxon Archaeol. xv. 267 By the 1960s, a simple division between the archaeologies of pagan or early Anglo-Saxon England and a Christian or late period..no longer seemed adequate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1607 |
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