Sentences with phrase «archaeologists excavating»

Archaeologists excavating the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach in Saxony - Anhalt, Germany, have discovered what they say is the oldest ivory workshop...

But now archaeologists excavating a burial site on the west coast of England are finding a totally different picture.

But French archaeologists excavating a large Neolithic village in Cyprus reported the discovery of an intact skeleton of a cat carefully buried beside the remains of a human, along with various tools and ceremonial objects.

Japanese archaeologists excavating the cave discovered both a finished and an unfinished fishhook that had been carved and ground from sea snail shells.

Archaeologists excavating at the sprawling Buddhist complex of Bhamala Stupa, north of Islamabad, at first thought they were digging up yet another stone wall.

In 1993 - 94, for example, archaeologists excavating at Tell Dan in modern Israel discovered two fragments of an inscription that refers to «the house of David.»

In 1977, Washington State University archaeologists excavated a spear tip and mastodon rib bone (an extinct species related to elephants) near Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

The team of archaeologists excavated an ancient...

This means that reburial is only very rarely justified, and that it is undoubtedly unjustified in cases where archaeologists excavate long - dead, anonymous bodies.

Münster archaeologists excavated a unique Roman relief depicting an unknown god in an ancient sanctuary in Turkey.

The graves beside the pyramids had largely been plundered, possibly in antiquity, by the time archaeologists excavated them.

Greek and Danish archaeologists excavate the ancient Greek harbour town Lechaion — University of Copenhagen Christian & Michaela: «Thank you for your amazing dating service — we are now engaged and planning our wedding for next year!

Photo: www.kval.com There was quite a bit of excitement in Coos Bay recently as archaeologists excavated what is believed to Camp Castaway, built by survivors of a stranded military vessel off the Oregon Coast in 1852.

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Archaeologist Alisha Gauvreau, a doctoral student from the University of Victoria and a scholar with the research institute Hakai, led a team that excavated the site in late 2016.

In the ruins of a shrine excavated next to the gate of Lachish, the largest city of the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem, archaeologists found an altar with the horns cut off from each corner.

Archaeologists do not excavate «facts»; they excavate material remains — city ruins, wall foundations and potsherds.

By the end of that century, archaeologists had excavated a number of the ruins and were learning about everyday life during biblical times.

Archaeologists of the future will excavate these dogs and assume we worshipped them, and maybe we do.

Peppersauce bottles have been found, excavated, and uncovered intact in shipwrecks, factories, and trash dumps by bottle diggers / collectors and archaeologists.

But while archaeologists have identified many sites in the Chicago area, relatively few have been systematically excavated since there are too many sites for archaeologists to keep up with, she said.

A team stands in Palace 6000, one of the ashlar palaces, originally excavated in the 1960s by Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin.

An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze - Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall and is about to start excavating the untouched site which overlooks the English Channel.

Barry Kemp, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and director of the Amarna Project, has been working with his colleagues to excavate the skeletons, and says that they are starting to reveal «an alarming picture of a stressful life».

«Here's the problem: Stone tools are the least - familiar things we excavate,» says archaeologist John Shea of Stony Brook University.

A partial view of the site where archaeologists are excavating the ancient mound.

«They needed a means of transportation,» says Vladimir Pitulko, an archaeologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg who has been excavating Zhokhov since 1989.

Organic remains excavated in and around the caves helped the archaeologists reconstruct an environment very different from the expanse of sand and stone that surrounds the dig today.

In July, archaeologist Tristram Kidder of Washington University in St. Louis and his Chinese colleagues discovered evidence of even older agricultural fields beneath the excavated houses and a larger buried town about two miles away.

Cape Gelidonya was the first ancient wreck excavated in its entirety on the seabed, the first excavated by a diving archaeologist.

While excavating the ancient royal Maya city El Peru - Waka», archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis uncovered the tomb of a royal woman.

One afternoon while the students ate lunch, University of Pisa archaeologist Antonio Fornaciari gave a tour of the trenches, pointing to a freshly excavated stone wall beneath an asphalt parking lot in area 4000 (see graphic).

For Hermann Parzinger, the 49 - year - old German archaeologist who excavated the tombs of the wounded warrior and the cancerous prince, the Scythians have been an obsession.

In excavating sites in a long - inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site's continuous use over millennia.

Through a dialogue encouraged by Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, this year large numbers of Western archaeologists began to excavate Iranian sites for the first time since Iran's 1979 revolution.

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

Although archaeologists had collected surface artifacts from cities in the Valley of Mexico, no one had excavated any urban Aztec houses.

Hlubik and other archaeologists have excavated around 5,000 artifacts from the site — mostly chips of bone or stone flakes.

When the town was excavated in the 19th century, archaeologists found human - shaped cavities in the ash where bodies had decomposed.

Page - Ladson «had always been on my hit list of sites to investigate,» says Michael Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University, College Station, who has excavated several potentially pre-Clovis sites and is a co-author of the new study.

Archaeologists first excavated the Cerutti Mastodon site in 1992, after the construction exposed bones.

But until archaeologists have excavated domestic sites on the Maltese islands, we will not know the relative importance of other imported materials, such as flint and obsidian, for a domestic economy that was essentially based on local agriculture.

Bradley is one of a growing number of academics in the United Kingdom who are doing their digging in the masses of unpublished «grey literature» generated when commercial archaeologists are brought in to excavate before any sort of construction.

Still, agriculture may not have been required for year - round, permanent settlement of the Tibetan Plateau, says Mark Aldenderfer, an archaeologist at the University of California, Merced, who has excavated there for many years.

A 790,000 - year - old hominid settlement in northern Israel, excavated by archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, appears to have been divided into distinct functional spaces, with a hearthside food preparation area and a spot dedicated to flint toolmaking.

Since the 1960s, archaeologists have excavated more than 500 skeletons spanning the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods from dozens of sites along the Danube River gorges on the border between Romania and Serbia.

As archaeologist Chris Clarkson was excavating a rock shelter in northern Australia one day in 2015, May Nango of the aboriginal Mirarr group brought her grandchildren to look at the pit.

It was apparent that he'd been there for a long time, so the hikers notified archaeologists, who carefully excavated the body.

The portico itself has not yet been fully excavated, and according to the results of a three - metre deep geophysical survey, the structure appears to continue, and more discoveries thus await the archaeologists.

A Jewish - German archaeologist had excavated the site in 1905.

Interestingly, the study, led by Ashley Sharpe, an archaeologist from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, revealed that the remains of the two dogs excavated in Ceibal in Guatemala indicated isotopes that the animals likely adapted a drier and mountainous environment.