- a variation of archaeology.
archeology
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It is important and inspirational and hopefully encourages others to pick up their pens or head off to do some crate digging or other cultural archeology.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
He is a St. Louis native and graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he majored in journalism and minored in art history and archeology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Antonella Rinaldi, Florence's archeology and fine arts superintendent, said: "Tourists are welcome here but they need to respect our artworks, be they originals or replicas."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
The ESA astrometry satellite Gaia provides an ideal data set for this kind of big-data galactic archeology.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024
“Well, I’ve had a lot of time to think about them. And dolphins too. And photography and poetry and archeology and parallel dimensions and all sorts of stuff.”
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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