Archaeology

the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maint…

a man-made object taken as a whole

the craft of making earthenware

a ruined building; "they explored several Roman ruins"

A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; a…

thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civili…

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

make a survey of; for statistical purposes

use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens