archaeology

archaeology — 名詞

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

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釋義

考古學

透過挖掘古代遺物研究過去人類生活的學科

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.

Dimitri 在大學讀考古學，希望以後能到埃及北部的遺址挖掘。

study + archaeology + at university for academic context

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

近期在土耳其南部的考古工作挖出了一萬多年前的石器。

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.