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Archeologist   Listen
noun
archeologist  n.  
1.
An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture.
Synonyms: archaeologist.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Archeologist" Quotes from Famous Books



... I could travel I sailed for New York, and the first man I met was dear Jim Stratton, who insisted that I must take a position as archeologist in the college with which I was formerly connected, but this I declined, and seeing me in an emaciated condition suggested that the position of professor of philosophy in the ship training school ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay

... ancient or modern, in which men have endeavored to embody beauty, is without strongly marked traces of this influence. By the study of archaic ornament embodied in clay, wood, and stone, therefore, the archeologist may hope to add something to the sum of his knowledge of ancient textiles. It should be noted that the pottery of the mound-builders shows less evidence of the influence of textile forms than does that of most other nations, and some groups of their ware appear to ...
— Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States • William Henry Holmes

... or hogans of the Navaho Indians which is presented here will be of interest to the student of architecture, it is believed, because data concerning such primitive types of house structures are quite rare. It is also thought to be of interest to the archeologist and ethnologist as well as to the general reader, for it is well known that no one product of a people's art exhibits so clearly their mental attitude and their industrial status as the houses which ...
— Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 • Cosmos Mindeleff



Words linked to "Archeologist" :   Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, Sir Leonard Woolley, paleographist, Homer Thompson, Evans, Egyptologist, Arthur Evans, Thompson, Woolley, Homer A. Thompson, Homer Armstrong Thompson, wheeler, Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, paleographer, archaeologist, pothunter, Schliemann, Winckelmann, Johann Winckelmann, Heinrich Schliemann, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, anthropologist, Sir Arthur John Evans



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