archaeology

archaeology — noun

1. the subject that learns about how people lived long ago by digging up and examin

1.名詞C1
釋義

the subject that learns about how people lived long ago by digging up and examining what they left behind, such as bones, broken pots, coins, weapons, and the ruins of houses or temples.

例句

Dimitri is studying archaeology at university and hopes to dig at sites in northern Egypt.

study + archaeology + at university for academic context

Recent archaeology in southern Turkey has uncovered stone tools more than ten thousand years old.

archaeology as subject + uncovered + concrete artefact

同義詞
  • antiquarianism

    older, narrower term focused on collecting old objects rather than systematic study

  • prehistory

    the study of the period before written records; overlaps with archaeology but excludes historical periods

用法筆記

Treated as an uncountable noun: say 'archaeology is fascinating', not 'an archaeology'. Often combined with a modifier that names a region, period, or method (Egyptian archaeology, medieval archaeology, underwater archaeology, forensic archaeology).

常見錯誤

❌She is an archaeology at the museum.
✅She is an archaeologist at the museum.
💡the field is 'archaeology'; the person who does it is an 'archaeologist'.
❌I read two archaeologies last night.
✅I read two archaeology books last night.
💡'archaeology' is uncountable, so use 'books / articles / studies' for the countable thing.