archaeologist

archaeologists (plural)
archæologist (alternative Commonwealth)
archeologist (alternative US mainly)

Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.

2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61:

Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

arkeolog

someone who studies or practises archaeology


Egyptologist

Egyptologists (plural)
Ægyptologist (alternative)
egyptologist (alternative)

/ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒɪst/

An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.

2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:

A person; one who is skilled in or professes or practices Egyptology.

misirşünas

A person; one who is skilled professes or practices Egyptology


papyrologist

From papyro- + -ologist, after the model of earlier papyrology.

A student of or expert in papyrology, the study of papyrus and ancient writings on papyrus.


paleontologist

paleontologists (plural)
palaeontologist (alternative)
palæontologist (alternative)

An alternative approach is to break down cultures into ab-
 stract elements and to establish, between elements of the same
 type in different cultures, rather than between cultures themselves,
 the same kind of relationships of historical descent and progressive
 differentiation which the paleontologist sees in the evolution of
 species.

1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 4:

In the late nineteenth century, paleontologists began to catalog the many curious correspondences exhibited by fossils gathered on different continents.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 197:


Etruscologist

A historian or archaeologist who specializes in the Etruscans.

étruscologue

a person who specialises in the Etruscans


palaeoanthropologist

Alternative spelling of paleoanthropologist


paleoanthropologist

paleoanthropologists (plural)
palaeoanthropologist (alternative)
palaeanthropologist (alternative)

A scientist who specializes in paleoanthropology.


pyramidologist

One who studies pyramidology, who studies pyramids from a supernatural viewpoint.


paleobotanist

paleobotanists (plural)
palaeobotanist (alternative)

How and when the earliest plants made the first move on to land is always a hot topic for palaeobotanists.

2018 March 23, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:

A botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils.


zooarchaeologist

zooarchaeologists (plural)
zoarchaeologist (alternative)
zooarcheologist (alternative)


archeologist

(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of archaeologist


geoarchaeologist

An archaeologist whose speciality is geoarchaeology


zooarcheologist

Alternative spelling of zooarchaeologist


Sumerologist

For example, the Sumerologist Jacobsen places the poem in which the young Inanna, still a maiden in puberty, asks a court musician to help her compose a poem to her vulva, in the middle of the cycle, at a point in time when she is recalling the early days when she first chose Dumuzi as her spouse; yet in the poem she is clearly inquiring who will become her lover, and so I place it as part of the beginning: a poem about the virginal Inanna in meditation on the mysteries of her own vulva.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 168:

A person who studies ancient Sumer and the Sumerians; an expert in Sumerology.


zoarchaeologist

/ˌzəʊɑːkiːˈɒlədʒɪst/

From zo- + archaeologist, omitting the superfluous -o- (unnecessary because archaeologist begins with a vowel).

Full membership finally grew to include Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., Thomas R. Hester, Marvin Rowe (professor of chemistry, Texas A&M University), Harry J. Shafer, D. Gentry Steele (professor of anthropology, physical anthropologist, and zoarchaeologist Texas A&M University), and Peter W. Van Arsdale.

1999, O. W. Hampton, Culture of Stone: Sacred and Profane Uses of Stone Among the Dani, page xxiv:

(rare) Alternative spelling of zooarchaeologist


archaeometrist

A scientist whose speciality in archaeometry


archaeozoologist

archaeozoologists (plural)
archeozoologist (alternative)


archeozoologist

Alternative spelling of archaeozoologist


micropaleontologist

micropaleontologists (plural)
micropalaeontologist (alternative)
micropalæontologist (alternative)


bioarcheologist

The desire to maintain specimens intact is shared by bioarcheologists too.

2015 August 6, Otto Appenzeller et al., “Bioarcheology: Medicine, Biology, and Forensic Sciences”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:


papyrographer

From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + -grapher (“writer”) and papyrograph + -er.