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n. The systematic study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery.

n. The study of the past through material remains. Often focused upon the life and culture of ancient peoples, but also applied to the more recent past. In American usage, one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.

"Again, equating evolutionary biology with archaeology is a fatally-flawed analogy because in archaeology we already know who the designers will be, and what they're like."

anthropology   

classical archæology    medieval archæology   

Assyriology    paleography    palaeology    palaetiology    paleoclimatology    paleogeography    palaeopathology    sumerology    palaeoclimatology    protoanthropology   

archaeology    archeology   

archæological    archæologist   

anthropology    geology    ethnology    biology    geography    astronomy    meteorology    folklore    entomology    mythology