ethnoarchaeology
or eth·no·ar·che·ol·o·gy
[eth-noh-ahr-kee-ol-uh-jee]
noun
the branch of archaeology that studies contemporary primitive cultures and technologies as a way of providing analogies and thereby patterns for prehistoric cultures.
Origin of ethnoarchaeology
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