Sentences with phrase «university archaeologists»

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 it was the cross that excited Cambridge University archaeologists, marking her out as an early convert to Christianity and - as the earliest Christians were from noble families - indicating she was of aristocratic or even royal blood.

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.

Excavation head and Tallinn University archaeologist Jüri Peets hopes DNA will determine kinship between the men, which could provide another clue to how the Viking Age evolved.

The most eloquent messenger was Hebrew University archaeologist Yigael Yadin, known for his excavation of Masada, the desert fortress described as a scene of a shameful mass murder - suicide after a failed revolt.

The response, published in Antiquity and co-authored with Oxford University archaeologist Jane Kershaw, offered an «alternate interpretation» of the PoBI data regarding Danish Vikings — one that integrated archaeological evidence as well as historical and linguistic clues.

Commanding an army of workers bearing chisels and brushes, the iconoclastic Israel Finkelstein, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist and director of the Megiddo Expedition, orchestrates an upheaval of his own: By opening the belly of Megiddo, he is challenging the narrative of the Bible, upending ancient Israeli history and derailing what we thought we knew about the Iron Age in this region called the Levant.

Uppsala University archaeologist Neil Price, a co-author of the study, reacted to the critics with a mix of irritation and disbelief.

Standing atop Tel Megiddo, George Washington University archaeologist and military historian Eric Cline, the dig's former co-director, overlooks a panorama of biblical and violent lore.

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.

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.

Boston University archaeologist Kathryn Bard and an international team have uncovered six other caves at Mersa Gawasis.

At Wonderwerk, Boston University archaeologist Paul Goldberg — a specialist in soil micromorphology, or the small - scale study of sediments — dug chunks of compacted dirt from the old excavation area.

Then one day in 2011, a Griffith University archaeologist named Adam Brumm noticed that some of the artwork was covered with calcite growths colloquially known as cave popcorn.

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.

«I wouldn't be surprised if H. floresiensis or a closely related lineage was responsible for the Sulawesi artifacts,» says Harvard University archaeologist Christian Tryon, who did not participate in the new excavations.

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.

One possibility is drought, says Yale University archaeologist Harvey Weiss.

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

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.

Yale University archaeologist Harvey Weiss denounced what has taken place as a «desecration.»

But the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is now allowing a team led by Boston University archaeologist Michael Danti to search the mountainous area for artifacts.

A few years ago, Washington State University archaeologist Tim Kohler wondered what he would find if he applied the formula to the periods just before and after the adoption of agriculture.

According to Binghamton University archaeologist Randy McGuire, who was not involved in the study, it is the most comprehensive effort to quantify inequality in the ancient world.

Not exact matches

According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about human origins.

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.

Gary Crawford is an anthropological archaeologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

In fact, «there has never been any report of a human population in which left - handed individuals predominate», according to archaeologist Natalie Uomini at the University of Liverpool in the UK.

(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.

Archaeologists have collaborated with Liverpool John Moores University's Face Lab specialists - who used sophisticated software to create an digital image of what one of the soldiers looked like.

In 1952, a team was set in place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins University.

«The emergence of modern human behavior is one of the most important debates happening now,» says archaeologist Daniela Rosso of the University of Bordeaux and University of Barcelona.

Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilization's hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.

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.

To resolve the matter, Charlotte Hedenstierna - Jonson, an archaeologist now at Uppsala University, and colleagues analyzed ancient DNA from Bj 581's remains.

«Having more Greenlandic archaeologists would be very important for Greenland so that they can set their own priorities,» says Konrad Smiarowski, a graduate student at the City University of New York in New York City who leads the dig here.

asks archaeologist Søren Sindbæk of Aarhus University in Denmark.

«Pope Gregory never said anything about rabbits or laurices, and there is no evidence they were ever considered «fish,»» says Evan Irving - Pease, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford.

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.

«For a while, everybody could [seem] right,» says Ted Goebel, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University who has worked at sites on both sides of the Bering Strait.

«It has already changed my academic life,» says Juha Pakkala, an archaeologist at the University of Helsinki.

Workers at Giza received about four liters of beer a day, according to Patrick McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

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».

Women could have been warriors during the Viking age, whether or not the Birka woman fought alongside men, says archaeologist Marianne Moen of the University of Oslo.

Until now, it was accepted that Dead Sea scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th cave,» said Dr. Oren Gutfeld, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology and director of the excavation.

David Madsen, an archaeologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for reserving judgement on when the Americas were first colonized, is convinced.

The variety of Beaker artefacts makes it hard to define them as emerging from one distinctive culture: many researchers prefer to call their spread the «Bell Beaker phenomenon», says Marc Vander Linden, an archaeologist at University College London.

The Rochester team, which included several undergraduate students, collaborated with archaeologist Thomas Huffman of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a leading expert on Iron Age southern Africa.

Garroway's proposal appears likely, especially in light of evidence that more than 10,000 years earlier, people in France and Spain made similar spinning disks decorated with animals that appeared to move as the toy twirled (SN: 6/30/12, p. 12), says archaeologist Michelle Langley of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

The idea comes from Kyle Brown, an experimental archaeologist at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, whose team found sharp stone blades dating from 47,000 to 164,000 years ago around Still Bay, east of Cape Town.