Sentences with phrase «as an archaeologist digs»

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She began her travels abroad with Europe, during college, and later returned to work as a field archaeologist in the U.K., digging up Vikings, before attending graduate school in New York.

I've always imagined that Browning was talking about the ruins of the Roman Forum, which for centuries, before the archaeologists started to dig, were known as the Campo Vaccino, or cow pasture.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

«Participants could dig with their hands in fish tanks filled with sand for artefacts such as coins and tiles as well as learning how to «bag» these finds exactly as archaeologists would do and even experiment in putting broken pieces back together.»

For archaeologists at a dig, the painstaking work known as picking is an everyday routine.

The reason Palaeolithic humans were thought to have lived solely on wild meat, says Revedin, is that previous plant evidence was washed away by overzealous archaeologists as they cleaned the tools at dig sites.

Digging just a few hundred yards away on the main mound of what today is called Tell Brak, the archaeologists recently uncovered large buildings and extensive workshops from the same period — around 3800 B.C. — as well as imported material and fancy tableware.

Miles Russell, a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University and one of the archaeologists leading the dig, said, «The discovery is of great significance as it is the only time where evidence of a villa and the villa's occupants have been found in the same location in Britain.

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.

At the Minoan site, Evershed and his team detected increased proportions of 5β - stanols as they dug deeper into the soil, suggesting that the archaeologists were right in their guess that the older layers were rich in manure.

Written by Eric Roth, this was to star Jane Fonda as an archaeologist who discovers what might have been the Garden of Eden at a dig in Machu Picchu, alongside Robert Redford.

As such, you had to unpick the story of the place like an archaeologist digging at ruins, or by reading the abstruse descriptions on items plundered from crisp - dry corpses, or rust - stuck chests.

Benjamin Clement, the archaeologist leading the dig, described the site as a «real little Pompeii», whose remains had been remarkably well preserved, and the discovery as «undoubtedly the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years».

Molozzi's installation explores archaeological methodologies and the physical forms they take; museum display strategies; the horizontal orientation required as archaeologists sift across thin topological layers that then becomes vertical as they dig down; and the presence and usage of red ochre; forensic cataloging; etc..

The artist thus will aim to be an urban archaeologist who digs from the city these elements, which can serve as core threads in their artistic practice.

About Huda Lutfi Huda Lutfi works like an urban archaeologist, constantly digging up found objects and images as loaded fragments of history.