Sentences with phrase «state archaeologist»

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Maggie, the outspoken state archaeologist working the dig, insists the shipwreck has historical significance.

Emerson is Illinois state archaeologist and the director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey at the University of Illinois.

A talk by Idaho State Archaeologist Kenneth Reid in Boise noted the scarcity of confirmed radiocarbon dates on the points from his region and pointed out the dangers of relying on stratigraphy alone.

«It's a giant laboratory,» says Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones.

«Take a photo, get precise GPS coordinates, but then take that information to the state archaeologist's office,» advises McManamon.

State Archaeologist John Doershuk said the company's plan is satisfactory, but Indigenous Environmental Network organizer Dallas Goldtooth says his group opposes the decision to allow construction to go forward.

Not exact matches

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.

What it's about: Archaeologist and professional swashbuckler Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) is hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do.

The National Geographic Society, in a 1988 letter to the Institute for Religious Research, stated «Archaeologists and other scholars have long probed the hemisphere's past and the society does not know of anything found so far that has substantiated the Book of Mormon.»

The two German archaeologists kidnapped recently in kaduna state have regained their freedom.

Following the reported release of the German archaeologists kidnapped in Kaduna state, a top - level security consultant and public affairs analyst, Dehinde Ariyo, has said that kidnapping...

Following the reported release of the German archaeologists kidnapped in Kaduna state, a top - level security consultant and public affairs analyst, Dehinde Ariyo, has said that kidnapping thrives unabated in Nigeria because of the outdated security architecture in the country, the low - level of ammunition used by security operatives, and government's laxity in putting proactive measures in place to prevent the menace.

That population bulge at La Corona corresponded to a period from 520 to 740 when Kaanul kings transformed a series of Guatemalan sites into satellites of a state with Calakmul as the capital, said archaeologist Tomás Barrientos of the University of the Valley of Guatemala in Guatemala City.

Abdul Amir Hamdani, an Iraqi archaeologist at Stony Brook University in New York, spoke with a colleague in Mosul familiar with the situation and reports that Islamic State forces occupied Nimrud for several days before bulldozing it from noon to late evening on 5 March.

«At least we get the knowledge before the remains are put back in the ground,» says Steven Simms, an archaeologist at Utah State University in Logan, who has studied the Spirit Cave Mummy.

Kent State University archaeologist Metin I. Eren takes aim with the Spot Hogg Hooter Shooter, a modern automatic bow launcher testing an ancient weapon: an arrow tipped with a stone point.

As an archaeologist at Florida State University, Jessi Halligan blends her love of teaching with her passion for underwater excavation of cultural artifacts.

Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, agrees: «Now that the ice - free corridor has been shown to be dead in the water — no pun intended — we can start to look at something like a coastal migration route.»

Idaho State University archaeologist Richard Hansen, who is directing the ongoing excavation, says that the panels» carved images depict an important scene from the Popol Vuh, a text of the Mayan myth that was first recorded in the 16th century.

«If our hypothesis is correct that all of the finds belong to the same event, we're dealing with a conflict of a scale hitherto completely unknown north of the Alps,» says dig co-director Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist at the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage in Hannover.

Archaeologists are getting their first look at how a nearly year - long occupation by the group known as the Islamic State (IS) has affected the World Heritage Site of Palmyra in Syria.

When I got back to the States, Rodney Young, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania whom I'd worked with at Gordion, knew I'd had this formative experience.

This autumn, more than 20 archaeologists and conservators from Iraq and the United States will enter Nimrud, which is now controlled by the Iraqi government after nearby military successes.

This past February the Origins Project that I direct at Arizona State University helped to convene an interesting meeting of paleontologists, anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, archaeologists and psychologists to attempt to address such questions, among others.

Traffic's history (and future) comes alive as Tom Vanderbilt joins a traffic archaeologist on the well - worn streets of Pompeii and, later on, seats us at the helm of the most sophisticated traffic computer network in the United States: the Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control, where a single engineer attempts to keep L.A. gridlock at bay on Oscar night.

During a four - year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a Florida State University archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 centuries of Etruscan, Roman and medieval civilization in Tuscany.

Washington State University archaeologists are at the helm of new research using sophisticated computer technology to learn how past societies responded to climate change.

But in summer 2009, archaeologist Jon Henderson from the University of Nottingham, UK, working with Elias Spondylis of the Greek government's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, carried out a detailed digital survey using laser - based positioning and state - of - the - art sonar scanning.

After Arizona made plans to rebuild an interstate exchange at the Julian Wash site, archaeologists and the state established a two - stage preservation plan.

Today, many Iraqi and Syrian archaeologists evoke this infamous chapter in medieval history to convey some sense of the devastation wrought by the so - called Islamic State (ISIL), along with the continued brutality of more than four years of civil war in Syria.

«They're like disposable razors,» says Matthew Des Lauriers, an archaeologist at California State University in Northridge, who has found the same kind of tools on Cedros Island off Baja California, where people lived more than 12,000 years ago.

Meanwhile, 42 eminent archaeologists and paleoanthropologists from the United States and Europe signed a letter demanding that Italy's minister of the cultural heritage move the archaeological collection to a new location and create an international scientific panel to assess the effects of the contamination.

Last year, for example, archaeologists discovered a hoard of crude tools from the southern state of Texas that dates to 15,500 years ago — 2500 years before the Clovis culture emerged.

Archaeologists used to think that people walked from Siberia through an ice - free passage down Alaska and Canada, reaching the interior of the United States about 13,000 years ago.

Amid larger concerns over state - sponsored terrorism and nuclear arms development, Iranian and Western archaeologists set aside their nations» political differences to achieve a breakthrough in research cooperation.

At Pinnacle Point, a coastal site in South Africa that borders the Indian Ocean, Arizona State University archaeologist Curtis Marean and his colleagues found table scraps from humans» feasting 164,000 years ago.

The research teams were composed of archaeologists at Arizona State University and historians, archaeologists and geographers working in the subarctic islands of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroes.

Archaeologist Veronica Perez - Rodriguez had just been hired as an assistant professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York and was planning her field season in the highlands of Mexico when she found out she was pregnant.

Archaeologist Daniel Adler from the University of Connecticut, working with David Lordkipanidze and Nikolaz Tushabramishvili of the Georgian State Museum and their colleagues at the University of Haifa, Hebrew University, and Harvard University, analyzed animal remains in a rock shelter in the Republic of Georgia that was used by Neanderthals and later by modern humans.

«Its reputation as a credible scientific and educational institution» effectively «normalizes» the looting aspect of its show, says Washington State University archaeologist William Lipe.

Once people organized into city states, they may also have started large - scale production of pharmaceuticals, says archaeologist Luca Peyronel of the International University of Languages and Media in Milan, Italy.

«Turkeys were rather revered animals» among people who lived in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest about 700 to 2000 years ago, says archaeologist William Lipe of Washington State University, Pullman (WSU).

Compared with millet, barley is especially tolerant of cold and frost, making it ideal for high - elevation farming in Tibet, as Washington State University archaeologist Jade d'Alpoim Guedes pointed out in previous studies.

Todd Braje, an archaeologist at San Diego State University in California, sees similarities in various styles of stemmed points around the Pacific rim from Japan to Peru (see map).

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.

Stemmed points — which have been found up and down the Pacific coast and across the western United States — and the methods associated with making them appear to be coalescing into «an ancient coastal tradition,» says Quentin Mackie, an archaeologist at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Almost immediately after the United States forced the Taliban from power at the end of 2001, archaeologists, art historians, and politicians began debating what to do with the site.

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.

The analysis reveals a «very practical kind of arithmetic and record keeping,» says Michael Smith, an archaeologist at Arizona State University, Tempe.