archaeologist.?

Question

Hey, does anyone have a THOROUGH definition of an archaeologist? Clear and Informative.
Thankyou very much.

Answer 1

An archeologist is a social scientist who engages in the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains, esp. those that have been excavated.

Answer 2

An archaeologist is a person who studies history by reference to remains that have been left, whether those are the remains of buildings, artifacts such as pottery, glass, weaponry etc, preserved in the ground. There are also those who study things like pollen grains to get a picture of both the climate in the past and possibly what ancient people's diet was. They look for the remains of monuments which may have inscriptions recording a person's job, birthplace etc. In the UK, for example, they have unearthed funerary monuments erected for soldiers which reveals that they came from all parts of the Empire. They do there work by meticulous excavation of the ground. They work by 'stratigraphy', or layers. If you find thew remains of a building with a coin dated to, say 150AD, overlaying another building with a coin dated to 100BC a picture can be built up of how somewhere developed over the ages, for the later must have come after the earlier. They should be distinguished from academic historians who, whilst they will rely on the findings of archaeologists, will also research things like documents which remain.

Answer 3

Plain english!!Fn grave robbers