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archaeologists

NOUN
student of the physical remains of ancient cultures or eras
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For decades, archaeologists have disagreed about what happened to the people living near the eruption.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The archaeologists who found the ship say it was about 10m in length and was a trade vessel carrying cargo across the Mediterranean Sea.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

During an excavation last month, archaeologists and volunteers uncovered an 18th Century culvert that appeared to have been partly made using stone from the torn down monastery.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

To investigate, Duke and other Florida Museum archaeologists assembled 58 plain and decorated pottery fragments from Tampa Bay.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

For much of the last century archaeologists believed that Indians came to the Americas through the Bering Strait about thirteen thousand years ago at the tail end of the last Ice Age.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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