ar-chae-ol-o-gy,
ar-chae-ol-o-gy
(är'keõl'ë-jé) N. Abbr. ar-chaeol.1.
The systematic recovery by scientific methods of material evidence remaining
from human life and culture in past ages, and the detailed study of this
evidence. 2. Abolishes the difference between There or Then and
Here and Now; it restores unity (Emerson, History, 1841). 3.
Shows that we do not see things as they are (Talmudic maxim). [French archeologie,
from Late Latin archaeologia, from Greek arkhaiologia: "the
study of antiquity."] |
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