Talk:fótaisheandálaíocht
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Not only can I not find anything for this Irish word, I can't even find anything for its English gloss "photoarchaeology". (Archaeology performed by means of photographs? Digging up ancient photons out of the ground?) The English word being a redlink, however, I'm only RFVing the Irish. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 16:03, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
- As regards the English, your former guess seems to be correct: ref. [1]. It's not altogether a ridiculous idea: taking an infrared photo of a site, and seeing if there are IR-visible differences in the vegetation which might indicate underground formations, for example. But it's highly specialised, very likely obsolete (belonging to a brief period when it was considered its own thing, rather than one of the tools of an archaeologist), and I also can't find a single attestation of the Irish anywhere which isn't from here, or an automated dictionary hoover. --Catsidhe (verba, facta) 22:33, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
- Maybe it’s a typo for fíteaseandálaíocht, phytoarchaeology. —Stephen (Talk) 05:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
- That doesn't even get a hit for here. (Although I'm sure it will when Google makes its way around again and hits this discussion.) --Catsidhe (verba, facta) 07:02, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
- Maybe it’s a typo for fíteaseandálaíocht, phytoarchaeology. —Stephen (Talk) 05:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
- phytoarchaeology doesn’t get a hit? I seem to get quite a few hits for it. For example, Phytoarchaeology. —Stephen (Talk) 07:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
- Phytoarchaeology, yes. fíteaseandálaíocht, not so much. --Catsidhe (verba, facta) 07:23, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
- phytoarchaeology doesn’t get a hit? I seem to get quite a few hits for it. For example, Phytoarchaeology. —Stephen (Talk) 07:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)