Sentences with phrase «archaeological contexts»

I'm pretty sure that in any reasonable archaeological context you're always going to have some prior information.

Antiquities bereft of archaeological context have lost much of their cultural meaning, function, and probable dating.

Binghamton University, which had an anthropologist on the international team that made the discovery, said in a statement that the newly uncovered cranium is strongly tagged to 400,000 years ago, which sets it apart from other similar fossils that «are poorly dated or lack a clear archaeological context.»

The fortuitous finding of Capsicum species in these pots provides the earliest evidence of chili consumption in well - dated Mesoamerican archaeological contexts.

«Our materials analysis provides a fresh and rich archaeological context for the Tebtunis portraits, reflecting the international perspective of these ancient Egyptians,» Walton said.

E.P., R.C., A.L., L.L., R.M. and D.S. provided archaeological context.

To investigate the antiquity of foxes on the Channel Islands and improve radiocarbon chronologies, we obtained three new AMS radiocarbon dates of island fox bones from the potentially earliest archaeological contexts to complement previously published AMS dates.

Previous genetic research of modern island foxes and chronological and distribution analysis of island fox remains from paleontological and archaeological contexts posed different hypotheses about fox origins on the Channel Islands [14 — 22].

For the calculation of MRE offsets from archaeological contexts, there is a lack of robust protocols to assure sample suitability.

Compared with other skulls hailing from the same time period, which were dated poorly or lacked a clear archaeological context, this skull was properly dated — ranging back to 400,000 years.

Missing piece To build its collection in the 19th century, the British Museum gathered crates of clay tablets by methods that would not be considered scientifically sound today; namely, buying artifacts that had been dug up around Babylon and Uruk without any archaeological context.

«These images show the destruction of ancient artifacts, architecture, and most importantly, archaeological context that is the record of humanity's past,» said Katharyn Hanson, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Museum's Penn Cultural Heritage Center and a visiting scholar at AAAS.

Since 2013, Tresoldi's work has focused on site - specific installations in public spaces and archaeological contexts, as well as private commissions, contemporary art and music festivals and group exhibitions.