Sentences with phrase «archaeological materials»

Hard - working and responsible Museum Technician with eight years experience in helping curators with the maintenance of museum items; with solid knowledge of various museum practices or methods and of archaeological materials and methods.

They also need to be knowledgeable of archaeological materials and methods.

The Verona Cathedral is a 12th - century Romanesque cathedral with lavish 16th - to 17th - century frescoed interior and a Canonical Museum with religious and archaeological materials.

Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.

2018-04-07 14:31 Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.

Researchers also examined the archaeological materials from the original excavations and identified several new fragments of vertebrae and ribs of La Ferrassie 1.

«Our approach will revolutionize the way important and irreplaceable archaeological materials are analyzed and interpreted,» said Kakoulli, co-director of UCLA's Molecular and Nano Archaeology Laboratory and a member of the UCLA / Getty Conservation Program.

Several dating techniques applied to archaeological materials and the fossil itself suggest the jawbone is between 175,000 - 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years.

The curriculum's appeal to archaeological materials aptly illustrate its emphases and its shortcomings.

Beginning with The Landmark Thucydides (1996), Strassler has produced authoritative new editions of the major Greek historians that include copious maps for easy reference, a continuous chronology on every page, marginal chapter summaries, photographs of relevant archaeological materials, abundant footnotes (always illuminating, never bloated), and a comprehensive appendix featuring learned but accessible articles by prominent scholars.

The Captain Kidd shipwreck contains in situ archaeological material, while the others comprise artifacts that were raised from the sea in the past and subsequently returned there.

«The severe contamination of archaeological material has no precedent in the history of cultural heritage and caused irreversible alteration to the archaeological materials with enormous loss of scientific information,» the scientists wrote.

«Each year, 20 to 30 students spend four to six weeks at Argilos to learn excavation techniques and analysis of archaeological material, and to visit various archaeological sites in northern Greece,» says Perreault.

«Ancient DNA has the power to reveal aspects of population history that are very difficult to infer from modern populations or archaeological material culture alone,» said Aldenderfer.

In Africa, however, a lot of the archaeological material is from stone tools.

Other archaeological material includes stingray spines, an item used to draw blood.

John R. Johnson (curator 1986 - present) has built a good comparative faunal collection, and the department serves as a repository for curation of archaeological material from Channel Islands National Park, Los Padres National Forest, and various cultural resource management projects.

VMFA also participates with the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) Object Registry: AAMD Object Registry which lists new acquisitions of archaeological material and works of ancient art and tracks resolutions of claims for Nazi - era cultural assets.

In the film «Above the Black Line», the camera follows the black line that demarcates the border between the original archaeological material and its contemporary reconstruction.

About Blog Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material by David.

Not exact matches

The baccatum species, familiarly termed «ají» throughout South America, originated either in Bolivia or in Peru and, according to archaeological evidence, was probably domesticated in Peru about 2,500 B.C. Extensive baccatum material found at the Huaca Prieta archaeological site in Peru shows that the species was gradually improved by the pre-Incan civilizations.

Through genetic material preserved in fish bones from archaeological sites, Star and colleagues uncovered the apparent origin of a trade route that continues today.

The signatures are added to a database which, when large enough, can be used to determine the geographic origin of material found at an archaeological site.

After isolating material coating the textile fragments, University of York archaeological chemist Stephen Buckley analyzed its chemical makeup.

Dr Simon Blockley and Dr Alison MacLeod, from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, analysed volcanic material that preserved the archaeological site in the village of Nor Geghi, in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.

This makes it possible to obtain high quality genetic ancestry information from very little starting material, an important consideration for archaeological remains.

The archaeological and paleontological material (including numerous human remains) at this Chinese site, declared a UNESCO World Heritage, was lost during the Second World War, while it was being shipped to the United States.

Dr Edgeworth said: «It may seem odd to think of plastics as archaeological and geological materials because they are so new, but we increasingly find them as inclusions in recent strata.

Although computer models of archaeological sites are ideal software tools for managing spatially referenced data and commonly used to yield insights which contribute to the protection of heritage materials, some scientists question their credibility, calling for these long - term trends be «ground truthed» in order to ensure that calculated rates of change reflect observed phenomena «in the field».

In addition to CT scanning of bones and teeth and radiocarbon dating of previously excavated materials, researchers hope to launch new archaeological digs, possibly in Europe or the Near East.

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

In 2006, researchers used radiocarbon - dated material from 150 archaeological sites in the eastern Sahara to map a change in settlement patterns that coincided with increased desertification of the region.

The discovery of the site, named Lomekwi 3, instantly pushed back the beginning of the archaeological record by 700,000 years, or by over a quarter of humanity's previously - known material cultural history.

Stone is of all materials the most dealt with in archaeology and stone tools are of paramount importance not only because they are very well preserved in the archaeological record and common to all cultures but also because they are the basic tools with which most other tools were made in prehistory.

These most intimate of ancient human artifacts were often ignored or discarded during many previous archaeological excavations, but careful study of materials painstakingly recovered from human paleofeces says a lot about what ancient human dietary practices were like, given their incredibly high content of fiber, undigested plant remains.

Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.

Looting is a major problem, and lack of funding seriously compromises not only the protection of cave sites, but also the preservation of materials and publication of the information recovered by archaeological research.

The core of the archaeological collections consists of artifacts, faunal remains, and other materials from field surveys and excavation on the Northern Channel Islands, Santa Barbara mainland coast, and adjacent back country by David Banks Rogers (curator 1923 - 1938) and Phil C. Orr (curator 1938 - 1968).

The Museum collection comprises ethnographic, historic, archaeological and archival material of the northern Vancouver Island area, specifically from Oyster River east to Desolation Sound and north to Rivers Inlet, including off - shore islands; west to Gold River and beyond to the outer coast at Estevan Point, and north to the tip of Vancouver Island.

These imagined ruins, restored memory and archaeological (re) creation are made of various materials, from bas - reliefs, to monumental architectural sculptures evoking the doors and structures of the subterranean, here constructed in polystyrene, polished aluminium, plaster and cement.

In several elaborate projects in the mid - to late «90s, Dion and a team of helpers excavated a site - always chosen to hold no real archaeological value - and extracted non-natural items (swizzle sticks, dolls, shards, bottle caps), cleaning, sorting and exhibiting them in neat rows according to material, shape or color in large wooden cabinets.

The exhibition, entitled When, featured several ongoing series, showcasing Baird's use of archaeological sites and remains to source the concepts and material for his sculptural practice, including -LSB-...]

Fetish, 2016, presented in the first floor galleries, delves further into the stratified relationships between culture, value, and material by focusing on Sigmund Freud's personal collection of archaeological statues and artefacts.

She frequently uses archaeological objects as a metaphor for the human mind and there is a clear exploration of the human psyche and a search for material that is repressed.

Through observing the intertwined identities, unregulated economies and shared resistance felt across the densely layered archaeological and urban sites of Lebanon, The Drift explores the politics of conflict through its material — and immaterial — residue.

They illustrate an archaeological sequence that traces the evolution and material culture of an alternative, parallel humanoid from an imagined past into a possible future.

The works in this group exhibition were selected because of their archaeological undertones, their appropriation of materials, their reference to prior points of artistic practice, and their layers of the handmade.

Her handling of historical materials betrays an almost archaeological interest in that which is concealed, its multifarious potential conveyed through her work in striking ways to evoke a range of sensations and recollections.

Fragments of the geological and archaeological substrate, technologies of energy and information management, skins and structures from the inorganic and organic domain interweave in order to trace the historical, epistemological and morphological correlations between natural phenomena, technological infrastructures, the material and intangible manifestations of memory.

However, instead of constructing sculpture from the inside out, so that material mass and volume are emptied out in favor of a skeletal space - as - mass, Toya's guiding paradigm is archaeological.