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- noun science fiction A fictional
science , concerned with the physical remains ofalien cultures. These may be found onplanets which have been inhabited or visited byextraterrestrials .
Etymologies
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(Now if the word xenoarchaeology had been used I might have agreed.
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I did know the xenoarchaeology research team that I'd joined was one of Thu's reform showpieces, intended to demonstrate Thu's enlightened governmental process.
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Likewise a serious study of how xenoarchaeology is practiced could give genuinely useful insights into the assumptions in SETI programmes.
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"The reception being held up at the Aerie for the xenoarchaeology team that your government has brought here to study the cloud-reefs.
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The only remotely good xenoarchaeology paper I can recall was one which proposed massive orbital structures might create diffraction patterns visible in starlight)
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