archaeologistnoun
US also archeologist uk/ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.dʒɪst/us/ˌɑːr.kiˈɑː.lə.dʒɪst/C1 someone who studies the buildings, graves, tools, and other objects of people who lived in the past
Examples
- A team of archaeologists are working on a previously undisturbed area of the abbey grounds.
- She wanted to be an archaeologist and took part in several digs in her youth.
- Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement.
- The site of the temple was discovered by a group of amateur archaeologists.
- He is an archaeologist who recently excavated an extraordinary Olmec site in Mexico.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Archaeology
- archaeological
- archaeology
- archeology
- artefact
- carbon dating
- Colosseum
- dig
- excavate
- industrial archaeology
- uncover
- unearth
Examples from literature
- Archaeologists also learned that when important people died, their horses were killed.
- Archaeologists believe there are many more tombs with mummies and treasures to find in the Valley of the Kings.
- Archaeologists can learn a lot about ancient people from these mummies, too.
- Archaeologists don’t only learn about people from the treasures they find buried with them.
- Archaeologists find out a lot from mummies without DNA as well.
- Archaeologists found several other mummified horses in the area.
- Archaeologists found the king’s 3,000-year-old mummified body and many amazing treasures in the tomb.
- Archaeologists learned that some people kept cats just so they could kill them and bury them in tombs.
- Archaeologists think the silk possibly came from India.
- Archaeologists think these bog mummies were killed for doing bad things.
- By studying these animal mummies, archaeologists learned that ancient Egyptians took good care of their pets.
- In 1991, archaeologists found a mummified body on a mountain in Italy.
- People around the world were mummified in different ways, but all mummies help archaeologists learn about the past.
- So, people from Europe were in this part of China much earlier than archaeologists thought before.
- The archaeologist studies treasures found in tombs.
- This helped archaeologists learn that these people were European.
- This tells archaeologists that they were everyday people, not kings and queens.