The act of digging through one's garage, storage, closets, etc in search of lost artifacts and or in the process of reducing the amount of 'stuff' collected over the years.
1. We're getting ready to move, so we're going to storage to do a little urban archeology.

2. I ran into Cynthia and had to do a little urban archeology to find her phone number.
by Jake R Slater May 6, 2009
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The exploration of old abandoned malls movie theaters. Houses. Mansions.basically. anything urban or semi urban.
We explored some abandoned houses in the 5 finger lakes region of New York it was some great urban archeology!
by 4realazitgits March 20, 2021
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