The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains
the actual excavation, examination, analysis and interpretation.
the actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
the academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..
A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.