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- [David] Hello, Wordsmiths, David here,

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You've caught me at a dig
site, excavating a rare find.

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Hold on just a moment, here
we are. (David grunting)

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The word for this video is archeology.

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It's a noun and it means

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the study of ancient human cultures.

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The word origin, the
etymology is fun, it's Greek.

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Arche means old in Greek,
ancient, first, long ago,

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and logy means science or the study of.

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You might also see it in
its combining form as ology,

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so it's the study of things from long ago.

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A person who practices this
science, an archeologist,

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goes on trips to the place they study,

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and there they carefully dig up artifacts

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and then they take those
artifacts to a museum

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or a university and they study them,

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and they try to learn
things about the culture

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that produced those artifacts, right?

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I could find ancient pottery
from a dig in Turkey,

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and then take it back
to a museum in Istanbul,

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or Antalya, or wherever,

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and scrape off residue
from the inside of a pot,

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and say, "Okay, what were people drinking

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5,000 years ago?"

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Anyway, looking at arche, logy, or ology,

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the word parts meaning old,

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and a science or study of something.

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What other words can you think of

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that Use those word parts?

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I'm gonna put on some music

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and you've got 10 seconds
to shout out some words.

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Let's do it.

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(upbeat playful music)

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Here's what I came up with, an archive,

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which is like a place for documents,

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a place where you keep all
the old papers and books.

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Think of a newspaper archive,
all the old editions.

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Archaic, it's another way of saying

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old-fashioned or ancient,

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and biology, the study of life, right?

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Bios in Greek, life,

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let's use archeology in some sentences.

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"I never label my leftover,

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so investigating the mystery
containers in my fridge

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feels a little like archeology."

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You don't know what's in there,

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in my parents' house growing up,

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it was always tubs of cottage cheese,

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but they never had cottage cheese in them.

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That's sentence Number
1, sentence Number 2,

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"If I were an archeologist,
I I'd study ancient pie.

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Now, if you'll excuse me,

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I think it's time to
dig into my latest find.

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Hm, I do believe that's
eighth-century blueberry,

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huh, still good.

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For now, take heart,

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you can learn anything, David out.