archaeology

"The science of uncovering past artifacts to analize and make inferences about the world of the past.

"In archaeology class, we uncovered a piece of Mayan pottery from a sample dig site and analyzed the Mayan culture from it.

by Sideshow Fred October 14, 2003

archaeologist

A person who studies the past via the evaluation of artifacts, ecofacts, and geofacts. Archaeologists do NOT study dinosaur bones. Archaeologists DO have to navigate through a maze of red tape in order to study said items due to the fact that political correctness and all around silliness have created ridiculous laws that impede scientific study so that peoples feelings do not get hurt.

Archaeologist: "wow I just found a site that has 20,000 yr old human remains, these human remains and all the artifacts found with him could tell us how and when humans came to north america, this could be the most important find in the last century"

Random Government/Tribal official: that is too bad, because even though these remains are 20,000 years old I still believe they could be a native american ancestor and therefore I am going to prevent you from studying anything at this site so I can make sure that the government pays to just rebury everything. sorry for your bad luck but my feelings come before breakthrough studies beneficial to all humans"

by archaeology girl April 23, 2011

Archan

a cool kid with kind of longish brown hair.

hey look at that guy

hes such an archan

by hahahahhaahahahahah August 16, 2010

archaeologist

A woman that dates much older men not for monetary gain e.g. someone who dusts off old bones.

He's not even rich, she must be an archaeologist.

by jahaybird October 24, 2009

Canadian Archaeology

The act of trying to dig your car out from underneath a significant amount of snow from an overnight snow dump. Clearing away the snow slowly reveals more and more of the vehicle much the same way archaeologists brush away dirt to uncover things. Usually occurs whenever you are late for something important.

Hey boss I can't come in to work today I gotta do some serious Canadian Archaeology to even find my car let alone drive it.

by jay_P09 November 17, 2014

archanistic

Adjective: possessive of a ruthless ambition (based on the prefix arch- that follows positions of power, e.g. archbishop).

(only form of word)

'he was cruel and archanistic in search for power'

by the neo-archivist February 9, 2005

archaeology pooh

When you have neglected to clean the litter box so long that when you do finally scoop it you find pooh encased in clumped pee concrete rocks that would essentially require a chisel to remove. ie kitty poop fossils

I haven't cleaned Mr. Whiskers box in 3 days and discovered archaeology pooh.

by Allison Wonderland January 1, 2016