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archaeologist

/ahr-kee-ol-uh-jist/US // ˌɑr kiˈɒl ə dʒɪst //

考古学家,考古家,考古学家,考古人员

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a specialist in archaeology, the scientific study of prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, etc.

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Examples

  • An unusual mud-wrapped mummy is leading archaeologists to rethink how nonroyal Egyptians preserved their dead.

  • As archaeologists, these scientists study human history and prehistory.

  • Their skeletons, their genomes, and the isotopic signatures of their diets all look so much like wolves that archaeologists can’t reliably say who’s who.

  • The specimen marks a technological turn to manipulating objects with wide, flat stone surfaces, say Ron Shimelmitz, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa in Israel, and his colleagues.

  • Some archaeologists, however, doubt that the artifacts are even stone tools and say they instead are just naturally broken rocks.

  • The archaeologist Sarah Nelson is in her eighties, and she would go dig in China this minute if she could get grant money.

  • It depends on the archaeologist and the circumstances, but I think they would all take their sweet time if they could.

  • Did you ever want to be an archaeologist when you were a kid?

  • Laurie Rush, the military archaeologist, admitted, “Our most exciting days are the days we discover we were wrong.”

  • The now-novelist grew up wanting to be an archaeologist without knowing what that meant.

  • An old fellow more archaeologist than judge, who found delight in the petty squabbles under his eyes.

  • This notable archaeologist began his career in the East as an officer in the Bombay army.

  • Near her sat a much less remarkable person—Thomas Grealy, historian and archaeologist.

  • Generally speaking, the position of a European archaeologist in India is very sad.

  • But I think perhaps Corhampton church is of more interest to the archaeologist than to the average tourist.