field investigation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The systematic process of collecting data in order to answer a scientific question.
  2. The study of the traces of human culture at any site by means of surveying, sampling, excavating, or removing the surface or subsurface.

Word forms

field investigation field investigations
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