ethnoarchaeology

ethnoarchaeology
ethnoarchaeologist, n.
/eth'noh ahr'kee ol"euh jee/, n.
the branch of archaeology that studies contemporary primitive cultures and technologies as a way of providing analogies and thereby patterns for prehistoric cultures.
Also, ethnoarcheology.
[1970-75; ETHNO- + ARCHAEOLOGY]

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