Sentences with phrase «archaeologist now»

«The scale of the disaster there is profound,» said Chekmous Ali, a Syrian archaeologist now at the University of Strasbourg in France.

To resolve the matter, Charlotte Hedenstierna - Jonson, an archaeologist now at Uppsala University, and colleagues analyzed ancient DNA from Bj 581's remains.

It was in part this gradual eroding of the buildings that formed the mounds in which archaeologists now dig up the ancient culture.

In my own area of interest, archaeologists now understand that the collapse of classic Mayan civilization around A.D. 800 was caused by a combination of factors, including population growth, intercity competition, warfare, economic disruption, and drought.

But archaeologists now say that the cultivation of maize did not become widespread until the civilisations were well established.

«By locating a spot mentioned in the papyrus,» says Taylor, «archaeologists now have a better chance to find other tombs still missing.»

«It's up to the archaeologists now to go and have a search,» Osborne says.

«The vast majority of archaeologists now accept the pre-Clovis colonisation of the Americas,» says Dennis Jenkins of the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Rather than identifying the collapse as the result of a single factor, many archaeologists now believe that the decline of the Maya was a result of many complex factors and that the decline occurred at different times in different regions.

Archaeologists now believe it to be a larger site than Tikal.

Most archaeologists now believe it was a palace for Maya royalty.

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Verano is now working with Gabriel Prieto, an archaeologist at the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, to publish their findings in a peer - reviewed, scientific journal.

Actually never ended up back in AK after that trip... live in TX now, and that via working for an archaeologist in Israel.

However, little has been done since her work 60 years ago and there are now suggestions by archaeologist Bryant G Wood that she missed crucial pottery evidence and some radiocarbon dating that could point to a Joshua date.

In 2012 archaeologists found Richard's final remains beneath a car park in Leicester and until now he was the only British monarch without a marked grave.

«The emergence of modern human behavior is one of the most important debates happening now,» says archaeologist Daniela Rosso of the University of Bordeaux and University of Barcelona.

Most archaeologists have deciphered history in 200 - year increments, but Finkelstein now can narrow construction, destruction and other events in antiquity to within as little as three decades, helping him refine the archaeological clock.

For now, budding archaeologists like Nielsen face challenges.

Until now, it was accepted that Dead Sea scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th cave,» said Dr. Oren Gutfeld, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology and director of the excavation.

Pigments are known to have enriched other Greek statues and temples, but despite two centuries of searching, archaeologists had found no trace of them on the Parthenon's many sculptures, until now.

Four and a half centuries later, archaeologist Jerzy Gasowski of the Pultusk School of Humanities in Poland says he's tracked down the remains of the man now revered as one of history's greatest astronomers.

Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, agrees: «Now that the ice - free corridor has been shown to be dead in the water — no pun intended — we can start to look at something like a coastal migration route.»

A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep.

Archaeologists at the University of Exeter have now examined the bones and judging from pottery lying beside them, they date from the period 1520 to 1550.

The slopes where huge swaths of soil have been cleared away now resemble the stone - paved terraces of a Latin American pyramid, but that look, says archaeologist Brian Stewart of the University of Cambridge, may be the result of this recent dig, not the work of an ancient civilization.

Sarabia says archaeologists are now replacing the cement with more suitable materials like river sand.

This autumn, more than 20 archaeologists and conservators from Iraq and the United States will enter Nimrud, which is now controlled by the Iraqi government after nearby military successes.

Early in the 20th century German archaeologist Max Freiherr von Oppenheim demonstrated that the vast and now abandoned spaces of northern Syria were densely inhabited in ancient times.

Now a new study disproves that theory, said archaeologist David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

What is left of the cross, which dates from the 8th or 9th century, is now in St Peter's church at Hackness near Scarborough in North Yorkshire and its strange marks have been mystifying archaeologists.

Now, an international team of ancient DNA researchers and archaeologists has solved the mystery almost by accident after sequencing the genomes of 101 Bronze Age skeletons from Europe and Asia.

Now, an unprecedented collaboration of archaeologists and geneticists has brought the warring camps together for the first time.

Now, archaeologists report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have discovered the oldest known fishhooks in a limestone cave in the island's interior, dating back nearly 23,000 years.

Now one archaeologist has learned to read them.

In June archaeologist Alistair Pike, now at the University of Southampton, described a clever way to get answers: Analyze the breakdown of radioactive uranium - 234 embedded in the natural mineral crust that forms on top of the artworks.

For now, Gibson says, archaeologists can do little to help stop the destruction.

Now, using a novel technique based on analyzing ancient proteins, archaeologists have reconstructed the contents of these vessels to conclude that the individual likely died from Crimean - Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), a severe tick - borne disease that still kills people across the world today.

Now, an inexpensive imaging method is allowing underwater archaeologists to ditch their wetsuits and explore complex, 3D renderings of the briny deep from the safety of dry land.

She is helping Hiebert, who is now an archaeologist with the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., track down the precursors to the Oxus culture.

Now, archaeologists have systematically debunked these legends, exposing some as a deliberate scam, The Guardian reports.

Archaeologists from the University of Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) have conducted a detailed analysis of the structure and now suggest that it may originally not have been used for burials but for worshipping the God Mithras.

But now archaeologists excavating a burial site on the west coast of England are finding a totally different picture.

Although a good portion of the central city is now protected, archaeologists are discovering related sites throughout a six - county region on both sides of the nearby Mississippi — an area 3,600 miles square.

Now, a team of archaeologists and scientists has discovered just how contaminated Roman tap water was.

Dee hopes that archaeologists will now reappraise the period, to start to understand what triggered such dramatic changes.

Until now, archaeologists have found that the oldest populations with lots of cavities were ones that ate domesticated wheat and barley.

Archaeologists have assumed it developed gradually from the pastoral communities that preceded it, but physicist Mike Dee from the University of Oxford and his colleagues now suggest that the transition could have taken as little as 600 years.

«I'm impressed; Herculaneum was a very sad, dirty and abandoned place; now it's fantastic,» says Albrecht Matthaei, an archaeologist at the Roma Tre University.

Greeks, Romans and other later cultures left evidence of their subsequent presence at the site, but it's the Neolithic residents who have captured archaeologists» imaginations: Now, new techniques to analyze the tantalizing clues left by these first settlers may overturn our entire notion of prehistory.

Now two archaeologists believe they may have uncovered a way to solve the mystery.