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  • noun Someone who is skilled, professes or practices archaeology.

Etymologies

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archaeolog(y) +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Some pseudo-archaeologist is going to make a fortune with a book “proving” that it was a major religious center.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Like Some Weird Cargo-Cult Temple 2009

  • In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica.

    The Doomsday Key by James Rollins: Book summary 2010

  • "We're discovering that the Chinese had a very different approach from the Europeans to East Africa," Herman Kiriama, the lead archaeologist from the National Museums of Kenya, told the BBC.

    Recovering China's Past on Kenya's Coast Virginia Postrel 2010

  • The (Dark) Nazi archaeologist is (Rising) casting a Crucimentum curse

    May 18th, 2007 2007

  • For Ms. Eleftheratou, an archaeologist from the Greek Culture Ministry, the findings have been a dream discovery.

    A New Way to See Ancient Athens 2009

  • For Ms. Eleftheratou, an archaeologist from the Greek Culture Ministry, the findings have been a dream discovery.

    At the Foot of the Acropolis 2009

  • It amounted to a proto-PowerPoint presentation for a finished film, in which an archaeologist from the Museum of London enlists a renegade Navy diver, who works for the oil companies and races motorcycles on the "shores of the Mojave," in a plan to explore the cenotes, caves in the Yucatan jungle that reveal underground lakes.

    Filmstalker: Steve McQueen's dream movie begins 2006

  • Seriously, though, such a great find, and some poor archaeologist is quoted in the papers as saying it had "serious bling factor."

    My Missing Sword! Richard Nokes 2006

  • An archaeologist from the Threshers Verity Auger becomes embroiled in interstellar intrigue when she discovers a duplicate Earth, held in stasis by alien technology, has become active and in fact can now be visited.

    REVIEW: Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds 2006

  • An archaeologist from the Threshers Verity Auger becomes embroiled in interstellar intrigue when she discovers a duplicate Earth, held in stasis by alien technology, has become active and in fact can now be visited.

    June 2006 2006

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