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archaeologists

NOUN
student of the physical remains of ancient cultures or eras
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The advance could help geologists, paleontologists and archaeologists assign more reliable dates to events in Earth's past.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Nearby, teams of archaeologists worked in tents, assembling skeletons out of the discovered bones and piecing together skulls that were destroyed by blunt-force trauma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Katy McMonagle, one of the archaeologists who dug the whale head out, said the fossil was difficult to move and very heavy.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The workplace at the center of “Dig” is an excavation site in Greece, where Poehler’s Elise is among a team of archaeologists that unearths a rare artifact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Tentatively, therefore, archaeologists assign the invention of zero to sometime before 32 B.C., centuries ahead of its invention in India.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann



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