Sentences with phrase «archaeological research on»

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The research question that she set to pursue in her ERC application was something that she stumbled on during archaeological fieldwork in South India.

Being that Limahuli is a treasure trove of biodiversity (nearly 50 plants and birds on the verge of extinction) and archaeological sites, there is a lot of potential and desire to do research here.

Research into lethal wounds found on a human skull may indicate one of the first cases of murder in human history — some 430,000 years ago — and offers evidence of the earliest funerary practices in the archaeological record.

And despite offering a wealth of compelling research opportunities — such as drug - resistant tuberculosis in the Baltics (see sidebar on p. 199), the primeval forests of Poland, and the archaeological treasures of Cyprus — the ability of the newcomers to win grants in the first call of the Sixth Framework was discouraging.

Posted on June 17 on the bioRxiv preprint server, the research supports archaeological evidence about the multiple origins of farming, and represents the first detailed look at the ancestry of the individuals behind one of the most important periods in human history — the Neolithic revolution.

The international research team, including researchers from the University of Exeter, created a new database of historical and archaeological information using data on 414 societies spanning the last 10,000 years.

Previous research based on representations of chickens on ceramics and paintings, plus bones from other archaeological sites, suggested that chickens were first introduced to Africa through North Africa, Egypt and the Nile Valley about 2,500 years ago.

This research has shown that the climate changes coincided with increases in population, activity and production of technology on the part of our ancestors, as seen in the archaeological records.

It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»

In conclusion, this article presents the first systematic research on archaeological sites in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia.

We first meet research scientists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, a worthy Ripley - in - waiting) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) on an archaeological expedition on the Isle of Skye, where they discover some ancient cave paintings indicating the presence of space visitors a couple of millennia earlier.

Menu backgrounds are focused on Lara Croft's office with research for her next adventure displayed along the wall, while archaeological books are stacked on book cases and Lara's trademark backpack is positioned next to cardboard boxes.

Service in the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa, work on an archaeological excavation in Greece, study in Italy, and research travel in China continue to be important influences in her artwork.

During a residency at the Penumbra Foundation, I will continue research and begin working on a new body of work utilizing the archaeological «squeeze» technique, producing paper negatives with the Foundation's large format cameras and learning how to make salted paper prints.