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ARCHAEOLOGIST

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Meaning:

An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture

Synonyms:

archaeologist; archeologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("archaeologist" is a kind of...):

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "archaeologist"):

Egyptologist (an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology)

paleographer; paleographist (an archeologist skilled in paleography)

pothunter (a nonprofessional archeologist)

Instance hyponyms:

Arthur Evans; Evans; Sir Arthur John Evans (British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941))

Heinrich Schliemann; Schliemann (German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890))

Homer A. Thompson; Homer Armstrong Thompson; Homer Thompson; Thompson (United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000))

Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler; Wheeler (Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976))

Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Johann Winckelmann; Winckelmann (German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768))

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley; Sir Leonard Woolley; Woolley (English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960))

Derivation:

archaeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Inside the tomb, archaeologists wearing white masks and latex gloves inspected the sarcophagi, which were covered with intricate drawings in red, blue, black, green, and yellow - and featured the carved faces of the dead.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The archaeologists have identified a series of hitherto unrevealed funeral rituals, which were performed between the end of the second millennium BC and the beginning of the first millennium BC in the Biniadris Cave located in Menorca.

(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)