Illustration: At a Japanese archaeological excavation, a researcher kneels inside a shallow, string-gridded trench and brushes soil from a broken pottery vessel still embedded beside an old posthole. The exposed trench wall reveals distinct soil layers.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

考こう古こ学がく

koukogaku

archaeology

Example sentences

  1. 考古学こうこがくは人類じんるいが残のこした痕跡こんせきの研究けんきゅうを通とおし、人類じんるいの活動かつどうとその変化へんかを研究けんきゅうする学問がくもんである。

    Archeology is a science that studies the activities of human beings and their changes through the study of the traces left by them.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. この説せつに則のっとれば考古学こうこがく的てきに実在じつざいが実証じっしょうされる最古さいこの天皇てんのうである。

    According to this theory, he is the oldest emperor whose existence is archaeologically proven.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 近年きんねんは考古学こうこがくにおける発掘調査はっくつちょうさの進展しんてんや既知きちの遺跡いせきの再検討さいけんとうがされている。

    In recent years the excavation and research has been progressing in archaeology and these well-known remains have been reexamined.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 考古学

  • 考consider; think overOnコウKunかんがえる・かんがえ
  • 古oldOnコKunふるい・ふる-
  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ

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