Noun

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What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.

Historical or archaeological relics.

(senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.

All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

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Noun

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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)

^{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.

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the actual excavation, examination, analysis and interpretation.

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The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertakem.

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the actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.

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The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.

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the academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.

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She studied archaeology at Edinburgh University.