Sample sentences for ARCHAEOLOGY

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Definition

the study of ancient cultures through study of material remains

She is on an archaeological dig.

They stopped digging the tunnel until an archaeologist can properly excavate the remains.
His eyes reminded me of a description of a gigantic Egyptian eye that was found in one of the pyramids I read about in a book on black magic. Somehow an archaeologist's wife ended up with this huge stone eye in her bedroom, and...
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

archaeologist = someone who studies ancient cultures

The white buildings of Missing looked rounded at the edges, worn down, as if they'd been excavated in an archaeological dig but not restored.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Someone dies, the wife of an American soldier, a former Japanese officer, an archaeologist in Taiwan or Hong Kong.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
The archaeologist who was quoted on Kryptos, Nola knew, was in fact famed Egyptologist Howard Carter.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
George accepted Victorian society so implicitly that to an archaeologist he would be a fascinating object.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
For a while I could almost detach myself from the place and its history and take pleasure in it purely as an archaeological site.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
She was going to need an archaeologist to sort through the reams and reams of paper that filled the rooms.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
An archeologist searches for traces of the distant past by digging through layers of cultural history.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
It looked like something that an archeological dig might have turned up, that hadn't been properly cleaned yet.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
There are Jane Harrison's books on Greek archaeology; Vernon Lee's books on aesthetics; Gertrude Bell's books on Persia.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
The Magistrate displayed interest in archaeology.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
It was like some kind of archaeological crossword... a riddle that promised to reveal how to open the cryptex.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
(Staring straight at BRADY) Deacon of the Congregational Church— and professor of geology and archeology at Oberlin College.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
I plan to become an archaeological zoologist.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
Bibliography Archeology Histology Lexicology.
Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
"All right, just supposing there's something, I take it you're not here for the sheer industrial archeology of it all.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Professor Sullivan stood by one of the great statues that had been such a challenge to archaeology since Easter Island was discovered.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
The place felt like an archeological site, the ruins of a lost American civilization. bags of money
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation

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