Sentences with phrase «archaeological dig as»

You could even have a virtual archaeological dig as a team, finding bones, and then learning about what they mean,» he explains.

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(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.

An archaeological dig in southeast Turkey has uncovered a large number of clay tokens that were used as records of trade until the advent of writing, or so it had been believed.

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.

Evidence from archaeological digs suggests that aboriginal Aleuts were wiping out local otter populations as much as 2,500 years ago, and European fur traders all but finished the job by the end of the 19th century.

When archaeological digs revealed ancient graves on the grounds of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, researchers there took it as a sign that they should analyze the ancient people's DNA.

Scientists are using exotic technologies to excavate underwater shipwrecks with the same precision as an archaeological dig

This study is one of the first in its kind and we hope will point to the importance of coprolites as important cultural markers and thus any archaeological dig should include the search and preservation of any coprolites found at the sites.

Set in the titular Portuguese city, co - writer / director Gabe Klinger's drama stars Anton Yelchin as Jake, an American expatriate who meets French student Mati (Lucie Lucas) on an archaeological dig site.

The duo even goes so far as to stage a wild, «Indiana Jones» - style archaeological dig for a wealthy billionaire, with disastrous results.

In 2006, she visited Mallorca, Spain, as a member of an international team on an archaeological dig.

From the archaeological impact of dug - up dung to early toilets in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and China to the devastating effects a lack of hygienic waste disposal had in early London, it seems as though every bowels - related question possible has been answered.

As Willie puts her archaeological skills to work digging for the truth about her lineage, she discovers that the secrets of her family run deep.

The main Aztec site, Templo Mayor, is an ongoing archaeological dig right next to the magnificent Metropolitan Cathedral and the National Palace, both worth seeing as well.

The rare collection of artefacts includes huge wooden boats, weapons such as daggers, swords and cannons and other archaeological digs.

Add such interesting themes as a military base, an old school steakhouse and an archaeological dig site, and you've also got environments that are both different from the norm and brought to life brilliantly by the paper art style.

A studio - cum - museum - cum - laboratory lies at the heart of the show, displaying sculptures made by the artist, but presented as if they have been discovered in some future archaeological dig, perhaps another 208 years from now.

The exhibition is complemented by continuous screenings of Border (2000), a Kafkaesque, «fictional» documentary shot on the highly charged Israel / Lebanon border that muses on the ultimate validity of such an arbitrary designation, while attempting to locate and cross it; and The Making of Makom (2008), a video charting the construction of a sculptural project where the artist gathers and annotates, as in an archaeological dig, 60 tons of building stones from the remains of Palestinian and Israeli houses to build a deceptively simple structure.

As elsewhere in London, the archaeological significance of Cabinet's new digs is compelling, that layering of an ultra-cool gallery dedicated to the art of the moment on a centuries - old site that was similarly devoted to the astonishment of those seeking entertainment.

And as running gag the fictive archaeological digs by this year's Cartier Award Winner Simon Fujiwara's.

Presented as a raised floor built from the original 24 - packs, the installation evokes at once a stage, an archaeological dig, and an interior mall plaza — completely subsuming the gallery floor and casting a phosphorescent blue light on the white - cube space.

Aficionados are invited to contemplate and scrutinise her puzzling assortment of found objects as though they were an archaeological dig.

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..

As part of their archaeological duties, forensic anthropologists specialize in the use of digging tools to excavate the remains of a subject without physical damage or alteration to evidence.