archaeological
archaeological — adjective
1. describing work, places, or objects that come from digging in the ground to lear
describing work, places, or objects that come from digging in the ground to learn how people lived a long time ago.
The team made an exciting archaeological discovery beneath the old farmhouse in Tainan.
attributive: archaeological + discovery
Dr. Lin spent three summers leading an archaeological dig near the river in Greece.
collocation: archaeological dig
Visitors can walk through the archaeological site where Roman soldiers once lived.
The archaeological excavation in northern Egypt uncovered tools made of bone and stone.
The museum displays archaeological evidence that early farmers grew rice on this island.
- historical
broader; covers any past period, not only what is dug from the ground
- prehistoric
narrower; only refers to times before written records
- antiquarian
more formal; suggests a hobby of collecting old objects rather than scientific study
- modern
describes things from the present day, not from the buried past
- contemporary
refers to the current period or living memory
文法句型
archaeological + noun
用法筆記
Almost always used before a noun (attributive), not after a linking verb. You say 'an archaeological site,' not 'the site is archaeological.'