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archaeomythology

archaeomythology noun: the combined study of archaeology and mythology.

Noun

archaeomythology (uncountable)

  1. The combined study of archaeology and mythology.

Origin of archaeomythology

By surface analysis, archaeo- + mythology. Coined by Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas.

Questions about archaeomythology

What does archaeomythology mean?
Archaeomythology means the combined study of archaeology and mythology.
What part of speech is archaeomythology?
Archaeomythology is a noun.

Words near archaeomythology in the dictionary

  1. archaeomusicological
  2. archaeomusicologist
  3. archaeomusicologists
  4. archaeomusicology
  5. archaeomythological
  6. archaeomythology
  7. archaeon
  8. archaeons
  9. archaeonycteridid
  10. archaeonycteridids
  11. archaeopalaeontological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archaeomythology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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