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ARCHEOLOGIST

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Meaning:

An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture

Synonyms:

archaeologist; archeologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

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

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:

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

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