Sentences with phrase «when archaeologists»

When the archaeologists come to dig out the remains of our civilisation, one of the things they're going to find most puzzling is this Hutzler Banana Slicer contraption.

Back in 1989, when archaeologists convened the world's leading Natufian experts for a meeting, the Younger Dryas model was well on its way to becoming a leading paradigm for agricultural origins.

That's why it was a pleasant surprise when archaeologists announced in May they'd found three full genomes from Egyptian mummies.

That theory took a big hit last January when archaeologists reported the discovery of stone tools in a rock shelter located in the present - day United Arab Emirates.

News of this lost civilization began leaking out in the 1970s, when archaeologists came to dig in the southern reaches of the Soviet Union and in Afghanistan.

Celebrated in art (such as the 19th - century engraving below), the tale persisted, unproven, until the 1980s, when archaeologists diving off the small island of Takashima found copper coins, metal helmets, and arrowheads dating to the 13th century.

When Archaeologists unearth cities, and pottery, and cuneiform tablets, and cylinders, and papyrus, and palaces, we gain a wealth of knowledge that backs up Biblical accounts.

As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

So, for instance, when archaeologists discovered the house of a descendent of Muhammad, King Fahd had it bulldozed so that it could not become a pilgrimage destination.

Science was great back in the early 1900s when archaeologist in the middle east thought that their digs were confirming bible stories.

When an archaeologist does a dig at a site and finds a piece of broken pottery, what does he say?

I remember when an archaeologist, who shall remain nameless, called underwater archaeology «that silly stuff you people do, bringing up amphoras.»

But when the archaeologist leading the excavation died in 1999, work stopped.

When the archaeologist Stephens visited Palenque in 1841 he had to cut a path through the jungle.

Not exact matches

I've also published a series of four colloquia by assyriologists and archaeologists describing how earlier, from about 2500 to perhaps 300 BC, Babylonian and other Near Eastern rulers kept their citizens free and preserved their landholdings by annulling personal and agrarian debts when they took the throne — a true «tax holiday» — or when economic or military conditions warranted a general Clean Slate.

Did you know that whenever an Archaeologist has tried to disprove Bible details about history, the Archaeologists were proved wrong when they dug into details and searched?

When therefore we set out to study the events out of which it arose, and the part that its Founder played in them, we are not like archaeologists digging up the remains of a forgotten civilization, or palaeontologists reconstructing an extinct organism.

It kills me when they say things like «many scientists doubt evolution» or «archaeologists have proved the bible.»

And when they came, the Holy Sepulchre was occupied by other Christian denominations,» said Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay.

When I was little I wanted to be an archaeologist (as well as a White House telephone switch operator and dentist which makes perfect sense, don't you think?)

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.

The site dates back to around 2,000 BC and was discovered by chance when ANU Archaeologist Dr Catherine Frieman, who was conducting geophysical surveys of a known site outside the village of Looe in Cornwall, was approached by a farmer about a possible site in a neighbouring field.

But this spear is the first evidence of its use in cold parts of Europe at a time toward the end of the Stone Age when the glaciers were receding, say archaeologist Michael Baales of LWL - Archӓologie für Westfalen in Olpe, Germany, and his colleagues.

During this brief window, ideal sailing routes would have been created from the already populated south Austral Islands to Easter Island — exactly when many archaeologists think the island was colonised.

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

When these monkeys bang rocks together, they make stone flakes that resemble those archaeologists believe humans made two million to three million years ago.This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on October 19, 2016.

Large stone sphinxes, women sculpted in marble, intricate mosaics and multicolored frescoes awaited archaeologists in August when they entered the largest tomb ever found in Greece.

Large stone sphinxes, women sculpted in marble, intricate mosaics and multicolored frescoes awaited archaeologists when they entered the largest tomb ever found in Greece.

Scuba - diving archaeologists have unearthed artefacts from an ancient butchering site that seem to settle a debate about when humans spread across the Americas.

Even more astounding, Overstreet also found stone tools and cut marks on the bones, offering archaeologists a rare glimpse into the brief period when humans and mammoths crossed paths.

Whatever the metabolic reason for this syndrome, says John Speth, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology, plenty of evidence shows that hunters through the ages avoided protein excesses, discarding fat - depleted animals even when food was scarce.

The archaeologist smiled just as broadly, if perhaps a bit more mischievously, when pointing out his two secret weapons to keep the timbers still in the tanks from being damaged by bacteria, fungi or insect larvae.

«When it comes to the Bronze Age, we've been missing a smoking gun, where we have a battlefield and dead people and weapons all together,» says University College Dublin (UCD) archaeologist Barry Molloy.

When a 17 - year civil war in Ethiopia ended in the early 1990s, Fattovich and Bard were among the first archaeologists to return to digging there.

Shelley Bolderson was scraping mud from a trowel one day in an Anglo - Saxon midden in St. Neots, United Kingdom, when she realized she didn't want to be an archaeologist any longer.

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.

«When people think about our ancient ancestors, they either tend to have a view that our ancestors must have been primitive, less culturally diverse, or they take the view that our ancestors were probably extraordinarily culturally impressive,» says Peter Hiscock, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney who was not involved in the study.

The most detailed evidence of ancient acoustical design comes from the Stanford team studying Chavín de Huántar, which was constructed between 1300 and 500 b.c. Peruvian archaeologists first suspected the complex had an auditory function in the 1970s, when they found that water rushing through one of its canals mimicked the sound of roaring applause.

But when the war between Iraq and Iran closed access to southerly sites in the 1980s, archaeologists were forced to pay more attention to peripheral areas.

«The whole concept of an ethnic German... it's ludicrous when you look at the longue durée [long time] scale,» says archaeologist Aren Maeir of Bar - Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.

When asked if he looks askance at these amateur archaeologists, McManamon doesn't mince words.

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.

Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone - tipped spears and darts at large prey.

Only when the Ice Age ended 12,000 to 13,000 years ago and mammoths and other large prey vanished, archaeologists theorized, did humans systematically take up seashore living — eating shellfish, devising fishing gear, and venturing offshore in small boats.

When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan forced him and other archaeologists to relocate to other areas of interest, Sarianidi remembered this site, which locals call Gonur, and determined to return.

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

A Russian general searching for treasure had already cut through the oldest of them, so Pumpelly and his son began there, using methods that were surprisingly modern in an era when most archaeologists were fixated on finding spectacular artifacts.

«So this shines a spotlight on a huge area of ignorance: what people were doing when sea level was lower than at present,» says Geoff Bailey, a coastal archaeologist at the University of York in England.

In an accompanying commentary, archaeologist Wil Roebroeks of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands notes that the cliffs near Pakefield have been studied since at least the 1863, when Charles Lyell predicted that they would one day yield evidence of human occupation.