Archaeology vs Null - What's the difference?
archaeology | null |
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , pages 36,{1} 63,{2} and 64{3} (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
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.
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Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
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As nouns the difference between archaeology and null
is that archaeology is the study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains: while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.archaeology
English
(wikiversity archaeology lecture)Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth) * archeology (primarily USA)Noun
(-)- {1} He first presented a complementary thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant' (1724–1804), in which he used the term “' archaeology ” for the first time, and which indicated the period of history to which he was constantly to return.
- {2} The latent grid of knowledge which organizes every scientific discourse and defines what can or cannot be thought scientifically — the process of uncovering these levels Foucault calls 'archaeology' .
- {3} “Archaeology'”, as the investigation of that which renders necessary a certain form of thought, implies an excavation of unconsciously organized sediments of thought. Unlike a '''history of ideas''', it doesn’t assume that knowledge accumulates towards any historical conclusion. '''Archaeology''' ignores individuals and their histories. It prefers to excavate '''impersonal''' structures of knowledge.
'''Archaeology''' is a task that ''doesn’t'' consist of treating discourse as signs referring to a real content like madness. It treats discourses, such as medicine, as ' practices that form the objects of which they speak.
- The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertakem.
- The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.
- She studied archaeology at Edinburgh University.
Derived terms
* archaeologic * archaeological * archaeologist * dendroarchaeology * ethnoarchaeology * geoarchaeology * maritime archaeology * xenoarchaeology * zooarchaeologynull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
