archaeologist

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I assume the name is probably French, because it was discovered by a French archaeologist.

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Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

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noun

Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for archaeologist.

noun

Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

Example sentences

I assume the name is probably French, because it was discovered by a French archaeologist.

Or, some future archaeologist may recover a bag of servers and attempt to understand what they do.

Besides, it looks like he's just publicizing what another PhD geologist and PhD archaeologist have been researching.

Erikson is an archaeologist, which informs his world-building in the same way Tolkien's philology did, and as a bonus, the world is informed not by Catholicism but concepts of evolution.

What archaeologist would turn down the chance to simulate and step into or observe any civilization from our own history?

An archaeologist from the 1930s gets stuck back in the 6th century A.

Imagine you're an archaeologist in the year 4500 or so, by our calendar.

K Rowling might perhaps want to be an archaeologist rather than write.

Can a better git archaeologist explain what happened to it?

I feel like an archaeologist trying to decipher the presentation from these artifacts.

But in five million years, there won't be any tangible sign of our existence except to a hypothetical future archaeologist from some species we cannot possibly imagine.

I'm pretty sure any future archaeologist would quickly figure out the overwhelming number of rounded rectangles with glass screens had something to do with the decline of other media.

Quote examples

Vernor Vinge's fiction introduced the concept of the "programmer archaeologist," which seems appropriate here.

An archaeologist in the year 4022 walking through the ancient land of "Usa" stumbles across an ancient U-shaped structure with dozens of individual or double-sized tombs.

Also, I don't see how future archaeologist would not assume anything they find is a "superstitious gobledegook" in need of verifying, if today we do exactly that.

Now Biff Miffington, code-archaeologist, must sift through millions of forgotten messages using a mysterious tool remembered only as "git." Its interface is arcane and the remaining messages broken, tainted by the destructive influence of Mountain Dew and Cheetos.