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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
archeology
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Like modern archeology, anthropology also depends upon the historical perspective which Hecataeus and his successors first opened.
▪ They had enough information to take the archeology into consideration.
▪ You know that she read archeology by correspondence when she was at finishing school.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archeology

Archeology \Ar`che*ol"o*gy\, n., Archeological \Ar`che*o*log`ic*al\, a. the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures. Same as Arch[ae]ology, etc.

Syn: archaeology, Arch[ae]ology

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
archeology

alternative spelling of archaeology. Also see ae.

Wiktionary
archeology

n. (context chiefly US English) (alternative spelling of archaeology English)

WordNet
archeology

n. the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures [syn: archaeology]

Usage examples of "archeology".

Bourgeois caused a great sensation when he presented to the members of the International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archeology, meeting in Paris, a Halitherium bone bearing marks that appeared to be human incisions.

The archeology committee noted the presence at both Kanam and Kanjera of stone tools in the same beds where the human fossils had been found.

The Paleoanthropology Society met each year, alternately in conjunction with the Association of American Archeology and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

High School, Trisha decided to major in Archeology in her college years.

What say we take today off, drive over to the archeology dig, introduce ourselves to our neighbors.

I want to take this pile of whatever that Rip found to the archeology dig and examine it in the lab.

Beatles with archeology hardly demonstrates a sensible scale of values.

It was, after all, true that his spouse was highly regarded in intellectual circles, though he did sometimes wonder whether it was because she really displayed such an outstanding knowledge of astronomy and archeology, or whether it was due rather to her slender grace and flawless mantle.

Since she was with Archeology and Exploration as a courier, there were lots of chances for her to see things that the surveyors might not, and I kind of told her what to look for.

If there was one thing that Pota Andropolous-Cade (Doctor of Science in Bio-Forensics, Doctor of Xenology, Doctor of Archeology), and her husband Braddon Maartens-Cade (Doctor of Science in Geology, Doctor of Physics in Cosmology, Associate Degree in Archeology, and licensed Astrogator) had in common, besides daughter Hypatia and their enduring, if absent-minded love for each other, it was punctuality.

Now, you know as well as I do that when the Navy thinks it's important to find out something, archeology, or any other science, is going to be sucking hind tit.

From working essentially alone through most of the first twenty years of his research, supported by a few who, while receptive to his ideas and prepared to defend them, in the main tended not to be active contributors, he saw the emergence of a vigorous new generation of participating researchers from archeology, history, philosophy, as well as practically all of the physical sciences.

In these years he published books on underwater archeology, archeological hoaxes, lost cities and vanished civilizations, living fossils, El Dorado, the Great Wall of China, and other, mostly historical, subjects.