Word Type

Noun

The word "archaeology" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

fill museums with curious objects improve knowledge about past human societies

Causes

destroy archaeological record

Derived Terms

archaeologic archaeological archaeologist astroarchaeology dendroarchaeology ethnoarchaeology exoarchaeology geoarchaeology hydroarchaeology ichthyoarchaeology maritime archaeology microarchaeology pseudoarchaeology software archaeology xenoarchaeology zooarchaeology

Derived From

logy

Inflected/Variant Forms

archeology

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

anthropology humanities

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

alternative archaeology bioarchaeology cult archaeology dendroarchaeology ethnoarchaeology field archaeology geoarchaeology maritime archaeology media archaeology osteoarchaeology xenoarchaeology zooarchaeology

Type Of (IsA)

humanities

Part Of

intellectual project to understand humanity

Related Terms

archaic archaism

Related Terms

archaic archaism

Synonym Network

archeology

Used For

learning about past

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.