Sentences with phrase «american archaeologist»

A study by an American archaeologist has revealed that at least three quarters of examples of one of the earliest forms of cave painting may have been made by women.

Images from the Archive of an American Archaeologist in Italy at the Turn of the Century.

Chacchoben was known only by the locals before 1972 when an American archaeologist reported the discovery of the ruins to the Mexican authorities, after excavations the site was opened to the public in 2002.

When The Island at the Top of the World opens, Professor John Ivarsson (David Hartman), an American archaeologist, abruptly meets with Ross (Donald Sinden) to discuss this unexpected mission.

Walton Goggins does inject some life into the proceedings, playing an American archaeologist with lots of teeth and no scruples, but not enough to save the viewer from lengthy troughs of tedium.

Has an American archaeologist finally found the home of the 20,000 workers who built the great pyramids of Giza?

On August 13, 2005, American archaeologist James Petersen, Brazilian archaeologist Eduardo Neves, and two colleagues pulled up to a restaurant on a jungle road near Iranduba in the Brazilian Amazon to have a beer.

The late Dr. William Rathje was an American archaeologist who became a world - leading garbage expert.

Oates invited a team of American archaeologists to examine the area beyond the high mound, which covers only about one - fifth of the site's nearly 750 acres.

A team of Syrian and American archaeologists found more than 1,200 clay sling bullets as well as the burned remains of administrative buildings, bakeries, and homes that were demolished during a fierce attack 5,500 years ago.

Two years ago, American archaeologists reexamined the site.

Some North American archaeologists praised the Nature article.

On the other: American archaeologists Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas, who are married, believe the ancient city of Caral was part of an agricultural society that expanded to the coast.

One hundred and six artifacts have now been identified and cataloged by a group of American archaeologists financed by NASA.

Not exact matches

Other South American civilizations, like the Incas and the Aztec, practiced ritual human sacrifice, but archaeologists have never found children's bodies in such a high concentration before.

Archaeologists largely believe that the first Americans arrived by a land bridge from Asia about 15,000 years ago, and some went on to develop Clovis tools (see «A history of the first Americans in 9 1/2 sites»).

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

The slopes where huge swaths of soil have been cleared away now resemble the stone - paved terraces of a Latin American pyramid, but that look, says archaeologist Brian Stewart of the University of Cambridge, may be the result of this recent dig, not the work of an ancient civilization.

«Probably the most impressive single piece uncovered there is a section of seating with a marble balustrade, where people would watch the performances and listen to declamations,» says Darius Arya, a Rome - based archaeologist and executive director of the American Institute for Roman Culture.

His team — a Greek and two Sudanese archaeologists, a pair of conservators from Italy and Austria, and an American archaeological surveyor — are at the dig site today, trying to accomplish as much as they can before the sun rises higher in the sky and the desert temperatures soar beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

This «black mat» had been noted earlier by archaeologists because mammoth fossils and human artifacts from the Native American Clovis culture appear in abundance below it but are absent from the layers above it.

Monte Verde For decades, archaeologists believed that the Clovis people were the first Americans, arriving via an ancient land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and then making their way south.

Surprisingly, some archaeologists are concerned as well: Robert Kelly, former president of the Society for American Archaeology, fears the decision could disrupt the process of consultation and cooperation that the 1990 act has established.

This led many archaeologists to conclude that the Clovis were not the first Americans, and that there was a pre-Clovis culture.

The discovery of some of the oldest human remains in North America got archaeologists excited but soon launched them into a fierce legal battle with local Native Americans seeking to protect their cultural legacy.

Although this shift could give archaeologists more control, Kelly would rather see scientific inquiry balanced with respect for Native American culture.

For Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, there is no confusion as he looks at this ancient petroglyph, scratched into a rock by a Native American shaman.

This is important as archaeologists have long suspected that some of the earliest Americans may have crossed the Bering land bridge from northeastern Asia.

«The chance to have such a positive outcome never even occurred to me,» says nautical archaeologist Paul Johnston of the National Museum of American History in Washington.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, and legislation like it in other countries with large indigenous populations, is changing the relationship between archaeologists and the people whose ancestors we study.

A Chinese - American team led by Loukas Barton, an archaeologist at the University of California, Davis, and Seth Newsome, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C., tackled the debate at the early farming village of Dadiwan in northwest China.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

Archaeologists say the ceremonial burial, found in 2012, is a striking reminder of a time when many North Americans valued the turkey as a sacred being, not a special holiday meal.

«Comet scientists are like archaeologists, studying old samples to understand the past,» said Boncho Bonev, an astronomer at American University and the second author on the paper.

To find out whether the bodies themselves could shed some light on the debate, a team led by archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University in State College analyzed their remains, found in room 33 of the Pueblo Bonito complex and now stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, using DNA sequencing.

VANCOUVER, CANADA — For years archaeologists have searched for a sign of the earliest Americans — the mysterious newcomers who, it's generally believed, set out from Asia and spread down the Pacific coast by boat more than 14,000 years ago.

Archaeologists are finding discoidal cores all along the Pacific coast — the putative migration route for the first Americans.

«We can see a dramatic history of booms and busts,» archaeologist Stephen Shennan of University College London (UCL) reported yesterday in a talk at the 111th meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, California.

Archaeologists continue to debate the reasons for the collapse of many Central American cities and states, from Teotihuacan in Mexico to the Yucatan Maya, and climate change is considered one of the major causes.

Like most Iraqis, I thought the arrival of the Americans was very welcome, but when you work as an archaeologist for 30 years, love the field, and know each piece, and then you see all the destruction and looting — this was very hard.

Archaeologist Todd Braje of San Diego State University, who recently co-authored a paper published in Science on Native Americans, told Seeker that «the first Americans likely arrived along the Pacific Coast — not crossing the open Pacific but migrating along the Pacific Rim in boats in a step-wise fashion.»

A type of site never before described by archaeologists is shedding new light on the prehistory of the American Southwest and may change conventional

The British Lara Croft (played by the American Angelina Jolie) is a sort of jet - setting archaeologist in the Indiana Jones mold who is extremely well outfitted by a gadget man in the James Bond mold, and who boasts of a loyal, shotgun - packing butler in the Batman mold.

Elio (Timothee Chalamet, likely 2017's breakout star) is a 17 - year - old American boy staying with his archaeologist professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and mother (Amira Casar) at a gorgeous villa in northern Italy.

The Cannon Beach History Center & Museum is honored welcome adventurer, scientist, writer, and archaeologist Dr. Cameron M. Smith on Thursday May 9th, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Smith has a PhD in Archaeology from Canada's Simon Fraser University and is a respected scholar, who has published scientific works in the American Journal of Physical -LSB-...]

Mark Dion (b. 1961) is an American artist who, in making his art, metamorphoses into explorer, biochemist, detective and archaeologist.