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archeologist

archeologist \archeologist\ n. 1. 1 an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture.

Syn: archaeologist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
archeologist

alternative spelling of archaeologist. Also see ae.

Wiktionary
archeologist

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

WordNet
archeologist

n. an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture [syn: archaeologist]

Usage examples of "archeologist".

Millennia before humans colonized the planet, Anicca had housed an alien race whom archeologists called Las Fuentes.

Concurrently archeologists recognized pronounced similarities between the archeological remains found in Alaska and Siberia.

Northern archeologist who knew little about the prehistory of this region, I was fascinated to learn of a series of remarkable discoveries made in the past decade that changed the interpretation of Austronesian prehistory.

According to archeologists, the Danubian culture was agricultural, pre-urban, worshipped a female rather than a male god, and never invented anything remotely like a state.

Boqueirao do Sitio da Pedra Furada, which English-speaking archeologists soon shortened to simply Pedra Furada.

Drew, Doug, Suzette, and Lena gave the archeologist and Grant a lively description of how the improv theater would run, and Carlo asked a number of questions and expressed his enthusiasm for the project and, naturally, asked about the work being done in English since they were in Italy.

It was unearthed and smuggled out of Egypt by an American archeologist, and Egypt wants it back.

Mayas and something happened which puzzled archeologists for a long time.

Vandals and thieves had been at work for centuries, but teams of archeologists were now trying to retrieve details of everyday life during the age of the dictators.

There be work here for hundreds of archeologists for thousands of years.

Are we, then, to land on the planet like archeologists, to study the civilization that we have murdered?

In 1999, archeologists in Portugal found the skeleton of a child about four years old that died 24,500 years ago.

And everything historians and archeologists had written about the El Giza Sphinx was wrong.

Keim who also did work on Southwestern American ruins with an archeologist named Moore.

Years of analyzing every little nuance of those dreadful weeks had made her decide that what had happened to her could just as easily happen to some other unwitting archeologist.